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As the unallocated IPv4 address pool runs out, are Internet Service Providers (ISPs) actually deploying IPv6?

This graph, the first in a series from RIPE Labs, looks at the IPv6 “ripeness” of all ISPs registered as RIPE NCC members. We created a rating system that gives ISPs up to four “stars” for IPv6 services that they provide, based on the following criteria:http://www.ipv6actnow.org/wp-admin/post-new.php?preview=true

• The ISP has an IPv6 allocation
• The address prefix is actually routed on the Internet
• A route6 object is registered in the RIPE Database
• Reverse DNS has been set up

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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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After years of griping, it’s finally happening: IPv6 on my smartphones (yes, I have several). I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my Nexus One supports IPv6 (apparently Android has had IPv6 support for a while).

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The remaining pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses could be depleted as early as December due to unprecedented levels of broadband and wireless adoption in the Asia Pacific region, experts say.

The acceleration of IPv4 address depletion is putting more pressure on network operators to migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet’s main communications protocol.

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Roaring Penguin offers a DNS-based IPv6 Reputation List to qualified institutions running IPv6 based mail servers. As IPv6 adoption increases, inevitably spammers will begin transmitting spam via IPv6. Roaring Penguin’s anti-spam products have been IPv6-ready since August 2009 and have been collecting IPv6 reputation data for many months. Roaring Penguin’s President David Skoll remarked, “We are seeing IPv6 spam and signs of IPv6 botnets in the wild; any organization wishing to deploy IPv6 needs an IPv6-ready email security system.”

Roaring Penguin Software’s CanIt line of anti-spam solutions includes support for IPv6. It can accept and deliver mail via SMTP over IPv6 and perform rule lookups against IPv6 addresses and networks. In addition, all CanIt components can use IPv6 for intra-cluster communication.

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With the completion of the first phase of its IPv6 deployment, Sprint hopes it can take the IPv6 migration worry out of its business and wholesale customer’s hands.

To help customers bridge the IPv4 to IPv6 divide, Sprint is offering a dual-stack solution that allows IPv6 to coexist with a customers’ IPv4 network. This migratory strategy means that customers won’t have to change their network design, meaning they can grow into the deployment and perform the necessary troubleshooting and management processes it will take to run the IPv6 protocol on their respective networks.

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Facebook has begun using IPv6, the company said today, joining a growing number of leading Internet networks that have deployed the next generation of the Internet Protocol. Facebook made its announcement at the Google IPv6 Implementors Conference, where leading Internet infrastructure firms shared their deployment experiences. For those interested in the technical details of the announcement, Facebook’s presentation is available on the conference web site.

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In many ways, IPv4 and IPv6 are distinct protocols with important differences. Nevertheless, both IPv4 and IPv6 are valid IP layer addresses, some networks use both IPv4 and IPv6, and the packet data content is the same in both. Network engineers often deal with both every day, and we will too. In the future, the importance of IPv6 will only grow.

IPv4 addressing was fairly straightforward to understand before the Internet exploded all over the world. Then the original (”classful”) rules for assigning networks IPv4 addresses didn’t work as well, and routers were getting overwhelmed by the size and resources needed to maintain routing and forwarding tables.

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The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses; there’s no argument about that. But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will embrace alternatives such as carrier-grade network address translation to share the few remaining IPv4 addresses among their new users.

IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and supports a virtually unlimited number of devices – 2 to the 128th power.

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The IPv6 Forum (http://www.ipv6forum.com) Ready Logo Program Committee releases the test suite of the SIP protocol for validation and issuance of the SIPv6 Logo to the SIP Community.

“SIP and IPv6 are two good plumbing roommates. The IPv6 SIP Logo program marries them, preparing for fertile grounds. It’s high time to move to end-2-end. IPv6 and SIP are natively designed for it. The best way around something is to go through it,” said Latif Ladid, President of the IPv6 Forum & Emeritus Trustee Internet Society.

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