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.
Read more on RIPE Labs…
The last remaining stocks disappear from the shelves more quickly than ever before . . . IPv4 addresses that is.
As the ARIN met in Toronto in April, an inordinate amount of time was spent yet again debating proposals on how to handle the dwindling stock of IPv4 addresses. I get the distinct impression that some people will still be tabling proposals and discuss the issue long after the last IPv4 block has been allocated by IANA and even the RIR’s themselves.
More from Circle ID…
The internet is running out of big blocks of addresses to give out! IP addresses define the route data takes when it travels through the net and reaches the right person at the right time. Experts estimate that 9 September 2011 is the day when the last of these addresses will be given out for use.
More from The Buzz Blog…
In its 2008 action plan for the deployment of the Future Internet Protocol in Europe, the European Commission is calling for the inclusion of relevant technology knowledge in retraining curricula and in higher education computer and network engineering courses. To support this action, the European Commission, Directorate F – Information Society and Media Unit F4, has just launched a new study aimed at evaluating the current landscape (needs and offer) in the field of the Future Internet Protocols training.
If you are in an organisation providing training and courses in the field of Information Technologies or if you are an organisation making use of IT in its daily activity, you are invited to take the TRICE survey. By answering the survey questions, you will be contributing to the definition of recommendations aimed at developing a European landscape for IT training in line with your needs.
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…
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