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.

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…

Fahad AlSharawi is Managing Director of 2Connect in Bahrain and a member of the RIPE NCC Executive Board. In the latest video testimonial on IPv6 Act Now, he discusses some of the obstacles still faced in IPv6 deployment.

View more IPv6 testimonial videos, including discussions with Google, the Internet Society (ISOC) and Hurricane Electric.

I’ve previously written about the problem with IPv4 /8s which have been used to number IP networks in an unofficial and improper way.

The problem is that the unofficial usage makes it more difficult for ISPs to bring these addresses into use when they are officially allocated and so less desirable. But we have to allocate IPv4 addresses to the RIRs as long as we still have them and they still request them. We just need to implement a mechanism to select which /8 is allocated to which RIR.

More from ICANN blog…

Global Internet Number Resource Policies are defined by the ASO MOU – between ICANN and the NRO – as “Internet number resource policies that have the agreement of all RIRs according to their policy development processes and ICANN, and require specific actions or outcomes on the part of IANA or any other external ICANN-related body in order to be implemented”. Attachment A of this MOU describes the Development Process of Global Internet Number Resource Policies, including the adoption by every RIR of a global policy to be forwarded to the ICANN Board by the ASO, as well as its ratification by the ICANN Board. In this context, the ICANN Board adopted its own Procedures for the Review of Internet Number Resource Policies Forwarded by the ASO for Ratification.

More from Domains Finder…

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) and APNIC Pty Ltd recently signed a cooperation memorandum to jointly handle new Internet-related issues such as IPv4 address depletion, the IPv4 to IPv6 transition and domain name system security.

More from People’s Daily Online…

Countries around the world are all striving for the allocation of IPV6 next-generation Internet addresses because the existing IPV4 addresses will exhaust in 2012.

The Asia-Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) will offer opportunities for the Chinese Internet industry to participate in the establishment of IP address management policy, Paul Wilson, chairman of the APNIC said in Beijing on August 26, 2009.

More from 4G Wireless Evolution…

New OECD data indicates 75 percent of New Zealand’s allocated IP addresses under the old IPv4 internet addressing scheme are already routed and in use.

Globally only 13% of the remaining IPv4 addresses are available to boost those allocations, but based on current allocation trends, experts estimate that pool will run out in 2011 or 2012.

More from ComputerWorld…

Experts have warned that internet addresses based on the current scheme (IPv4) will run out in 2011 or by early 2012, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The OECD is a forum where the governments of thirty democracies collaborate to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation.

More from itp.net…

I’ll let you know up front that I’m writing this blog entry for a subset of my readers.

There are those of you who are already running IPv6 network stacks, either internally or externally facing. This wasn’t really written for you, though I hope you’ll continue to read it, and provide feedback with your thoughts.

There are people who administer small networks that have little to no complex dealings with the internet. That is, you don’t provide internet facing services, or if you do, they’re relatively trivial. I’m not writing this for you either, because access-only internet will no doubt have a turn-key solution to enable your IPv6 internet access, and it will require next to no interaction on your part.

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