IPv6 Act Now

I’m going to level with you. This story is not sexy. I could have written a little thing about how popular Lady Gaga videos are online — no joke — but instead I am choosing to write this post. I am going to warn you: There are acronyms. But you should read this story because in the world of technology, it’s important. I’m serious. No, really.

The issue at hand is what the headline makes note of: We’re running out of IP addresses.

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gogo6 inc. today announced it has added a DS-lite beta service to Freenet6. Freenet6’s connectivity services are provided to gogoNET’s members so they can create and gain hands-on experience with live IPv6 networks.

DS-lite is the latest IPv6 transition mechanism defined by the IETF. It is unique in that it enables operators to provide IPv4 to their customers even after the IPv4 address pool has been depleted.

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Many of us would still remember the trepidation that resulted from anticipated problems related with the Y2K (Year 2000) bug and the major adjustments and preparations that were made globally to avoid it.

As with Y2K, the Internet is now facing a situation that requires global adjustment.

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The transition to IPv6 and the network planning needed to accomplish it is underway, and the new users that will embrace the enhanced Internet are the industry’s future customers.

At least that’s the idea.

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The National Insitute Of Standards And Technology (NIST) announces the public comment release of Special Publication (SP) 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the next generation Internet Protocol, accommodating vastly increased address space. This document describes and analyzes IPv6’s new and expanded protocols, services, and capabilities, including addressing, DNS, routing, mobility, quality of service, multihoming, and IPsec.

Read the document and comment here.

We’re seeing articles in the media—yes, even in this magazine—about the inevitable rise of IPv6 in a networking environment that’s seeing its current method of IP addressing (IPv4) surge toward depletion. And yet, although IPv6 is cropping up in some outlying experiments and in some products, it’s just not surfacing in a meaningful way. Will this new decade see a true migration to the addressing scheme that many people today see no reason for and just don’t want to mess with? In a word—yes.

According to Windows IT Pro contributing editor John Howie, “IPv6 is indeed inevitable. There are simply too many devices that want to communicate with each other for IPv4 to keep working. The explosion in mobile devices is certainly driving this. Currently, we use a number of technologies, such as NAT and Teredo, to make it all work in IPv4but we can’t escape the fact that the pool of available IPv4 addresses is dwindling very fast. (We’ll likely run out in two or three years.)

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Last year, federal IT networks reached a major milestone in moving to improved IPv6 internet protocol when they were required to start accepting IPv6 data packets. Now, there’s a new milestone.

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The current version of the Internet is up for a big overhaul. We have to change the whole infrastructure it runs on, the famous IP protocol. A lot of work needs to be done and it affects everyone that works with the infrastructure. The result of all the hard work? Everything will work exactly as before. Nothing gained for the end-user experience. That’s why very few are paying attention to IPv6 – it is very hard to tell the people in charge of IT projects what the benefit is compared with upgrading all PCs to Windows 7 or installing that new spam filter for e-mail. IPv6 affects every networked application, which of course includes the Open Source VoIP platforms I work with as a developer.

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Imagine that you are the IT administrator charged with IPv6 roll-out at your organisation. IPv6 is the new iteration of Internet Protocol designed to replace IPv4, the protocol on which the Internet is based. You’ve known about IPv6 for years, it’s something that’s been spoken about often you’ve even made plans for how it is going to be adopted but something’s always got in the way; and during the latest economic downturn, only projects that can show an guaranteed return have been approved. And now time is running out fast. IPv6 panic is starting to creep in. You may even wonder if you are over-reacting; and you may worry that you are not.

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Data Centers Canada, a data center provider which operates, develops and manages Canadian real estate for the purpose of providing turn-key data center solutions including colocation and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises, today announced the availability of the IPv6 to its Toronto, Ontario Canada data centers.

IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol provides many benefits in comparison to the legacy IPv4 standard. The key benefit of IPv6 is that it addresses the current need for additional IP space as the current IPv4 architecture is close to world wide depletion.

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