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India will start using IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) from March 2012, according to a new roadmap released by the Indian government.

All telecom and ISPs will have to be IPv6-compliant by the end of next year and offer IPv6 services thereafter, the government said in a statement issued on Wednesday by the country’s Press Information Bureau.

Federal and state government ministries and departments and public sector companies will switch over to IPv6 services by March 2012, the government said.

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By offering public and private IPv6 addresses, Qwest (NYSE: Q) is cashing in on the emerging opportunity to help enterprise and government agencies make their respective transitions from IPv4 to IPv6 addressing.

Current Qwest iQ networking service customers will be able to leverage the new IPv6 capabilities, including built-in security and its “near-endless” supply of IP addresses. Customers can run IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses via either a dual stack or native IPv6 modes.

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The RIPE NCC has posted a second article on IPv6 “ripeness” on the RIPE Labs website. Following on from the initial study (which focused on LIR’s IPv6 readiness by country), the new article looks at the IPv6 readiness of LIRs in the RIPE NCC service region, based on age, size and industry sector.

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As the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses has dwindled to less than 7.8 per cent, national and local governments are urged to take the lead in adopting the next generation of IP addressing, IPv6, to protect the sustainable growth of the global Internet economy.

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China is expected to come up with a scheme for the commercial operation of the advanced IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) this year, said Liu Dong, a member of the expert team responsible for the country’s next-generation Internet demonstration projects, at the Global IPv6-Next Generation Internet Summit yesterday.

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The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program. The USGv6 Program, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, provides the basis for expressing U.S. government requirements for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) technologies and for testing that commercial products meet those requirements. The availability of commercial testing services is an important step towards the U.S. government’s use of USGv6 acquisition tools, beginning in July 2010.

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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.

The European Commission has started an research project with TNO and GNKS to find the causes for a slow IPv6 deployment by looking at bottlenecks and the arguments that are used when talking about IPv6 deployment.

On www.ipv6monitoring.eu they will publish their project results and collect the feedback and ideas that you, and others who are concerned with IPv6, are willing to share.

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The University of New Hampshire’s test lab is among the first wave of labs to be accredited to test networking products for compliance with government specifications for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which will be required for government procurements this year.

The university’s InterOperability Laboratory (NH-IOL), an industry-funded independent test lab, is a pioneer in IPv6 development and was one of the organizations working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop test specifications for the USGv6 profile. The lab was accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA), a nonprofit, nongovernmental membership society designated by NIST to accredit labs for USGv6 testing.

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Corporations and government agencies must IPv6-enable their public-facing Web sites in the next 24 months or risk upsetting a growing number of visitors with lower-grade connectivity.

“The drop-dead deadline for external Web sites to support IPv6 is January 1, 2012,” warns John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, which distributes blocks of IP addresses to North American ISPs and other network operators. “When we get to the end of 2011, we’re going to have a lot of people connecting over IPv6 and that doesn’t bode well for the content providers who don’t support IPv6.”

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