IPv6 Act Now

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.

Sheng Jiang (Huawei) and Brian Carpenter (University of Auckland, research consultant to Huawei) are currently running a questionnaire on IPv6 deployment, addressed to every ISP. The purpose is to provide facts for a document about deployment scenarios that we are drafting for discussion in the IETF.

All responses will be kept strictly confidential and the study’s authors will publish only combined results, with no information about individual ISPs in any published results. You can also request that neither you, nor your ISP, be mentioned in the acknowledgments.

Please find the questionnaire at
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/ISP-v6-QQ.html

Answers are requested ASAP.

TOKYO, Dec 21, 2009 (The Yomiuri Shimbun – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — The trading of Internet Protocol addresses is expected to be permitted here by the end of next year as a measure against a possible worldwide shortage of IP addresses within the next two years, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

By allowing IP addresses to be traded, the industry is hoping that addresses currently going unused will be brought back into the fold.

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Predicting what will happen in the next decade of communications technology is complicated, primarily because the subject matter has become so integral to other technologies.

The idea of pervasive IP — or ubiquitous computing, the internet of things or hyperconnectivity — will transform the way we live and work. Just as the smartphone has given us portable, powerful connectivity, pervasive IP will mean internet connectivity embedded into everyday objects — some portable, some fixed.

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TMCnet has taken a hard look at IPv6, a next generation Internet Protocol that will open up infinitely more IP addresses than the current protocol, IPv4.

We’ve talked about why businesses should care about that change, and we’ve talked to officials with one of the Tier 1 operators that’s helping lead the way toward a smooth, effective transition, NTT America.

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First, we talked about why companies should care about IPv6, a next generation Internet Protocol that will open up more IP addresses than the current protocol, IPv4.

The transition to IPv6 is a complex, messy task that everyone including network operators, equipment makers, content providers, businesses and even consumers will have to work on together – and the U.S. government and Tier 1 network operators are helping lead the way.

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The RIPE NCC has published an analysis of trends in IPv6 “tunneling” (IPv6 traffic transiting across IPv4 connections) in the Internet over the past five years. The results give some promising indications for the deployment of IPv6 in the global Internet.

For details, see RIPE Labs…

If you are like me, you have been running IPv6 stack since XP days. You have configured your router for auto local link address and you started your research a while ago. If you remember, IP Address was running out! Matter of fact, it was about to run out almost six years ago! So, what changed? Why aren’t we hearing about this IPV6? It was supposed to eliminate NAT/PAT and SSL with secure stack that was 128 bit in length. So, what happened?

I believe IPv6 is our future. It is something we have to move to. But, since all the applications must be rewritten, app vendors must start the drive. For example, if Microsoft comes out with IPV6 version of Office Suite that does killer features that IPV4 cannot do, this would drive the need to move our network to IPV6.

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It’s fascinating what does and doesn’t generate discussion among us geeks. Still, we were pleasantly surprised by both the amount of discussion and continued wide range of opinions that our posing the question of the business case for IPv6 brought about. And since some of you may not have visited the discussion pages for the prior two newsletters and continued discussion at the Webtorials Water Cooler, this week’s newsletters will summarize some of the comments.

We’ll start with the comments that were in favor of IPv6. One of the first people to comment stated flatly that “I will NEVER buy another router that doesn’t support IPv6. One more [garden variety home router]? No thank you! These guys are already losing my business…” This was countered by a statement that many home routers already support IPv6.

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The running out of IPv4 address and the need to adopt IPv6 is being addressed around the world, although with not enough urgency. Sweden is in the same position as other countries, and the registry for .SE domain names, .SE, has found that neither the Swedish internet industry nor its business or public sector customers have done much to prepare for the transition to IPv6. This is evident in three recent surveys concerning supply and demand of IPv6 services.

As the number of available IPv4 addresses decline and the prediction that they will run out by 2012, it is becoming more and more important that business adopts IPv6.

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