IPv6 Act Now

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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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.

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Google has quietly turned on IPv6 support for its YouTube video streaming Web site, sending a spike of IPv6 traffic across the Internet that has continued from last Thursday until Monday.

Industry observers say YouTube appeared to be supporting IPv6 in production mode, as opposed to running a test of the next-generation Internet protocol.

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gogo6 inc., the leading provider of IPv6 products, community and services, today announced the launch of gogoNET (gogoNET.gogo6.com), the social network for IPv6 professionals, after a two month beta period. gogoNET’s purpose is to provide the knowledge necessary to help professionals answer the fundamental question: “How should I roll out IPv6 in my network?”

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Google plans to upgrade its YouTube video streaming Web site to provide support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.

Google already supports IPv6 with its Search, Alerts, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Health, iGoogle, News, Reader, Picasa, Maps and Wave products.

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With just over 10% of IPv4 address space left, the RIPE NCC launches How to Act Now – a guide to making IPv6 deployment simple.

The first ever resource of its kind, How to Act Now provides large and small business and government users with the information necessary to successfully deploy IPv6 in their networks.

Amsterdam, 16th November 2009 – The RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia today launches How to Act Now, a resource to help business and government representatives plan and execute IPv6 deployment. This is the first tool of its kind to focus on deploying IPv6 in a real-world, business environment.

How to Act Now includes expert advice, video clips, and hints and tips on all aspects of planning and implementing IPv6 within your network, no matter how large or small. The content addresses the questions and challenges faced by business and technical representatives from large enterprises, small businesses, ISPs and government organisations when adopting IPv6.

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version six) is the latest version of the Internet addressing protocol. All devices connected to the Internet need an IP address in order to connect to other devices in the network. The majority of the Internet is currently run on IPv4, but only about ten per cent of the address space now remains unallocated. Adoption of IPv6 is vital to enable new users and devices to connect to the Internet.

Organisations that delay IPv6 adoption may face increased costs due to poor procurement planning and rushed deployment. Failure to ensure that all devices and networks are IPv6 compatible could lead to problems communicating with other Internet users and inhibit access to online content and services.

“With most estimates putting IPv4 exhaustion only two years away, at best, it is clear that concerted action on IPv6 deployment is necessary to ensure the stability of the Internet and its continued growth,” comments Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. “Failure to deploy IPv6 ahead of the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses is one of the biggest threats facing the Internet today.”

“With How to Act Now, the RIPE NCC aims to help all organisations, from governments and vendors to ISPs and telcos, to put the adoption and integration of IPv6 at the top of their technology agenda. Deployment of new technology takes time, and as the point of IPv4 exhaustion looms ever closer, time will be the one luxury that we as an industry no longer have.”

How to Act Now will be hosted on IPv6 Act Now, the website operated by the RIPE NCC aimed at raising awareness of IPv4 exhaustion and encouraging IPv6 adoption. One of the world’s five RIRs, the RIPE NCC launched the site in May 2009 as a resource directory for all stakeholders to aid the deployment of IPv6.

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…

DNS Made Easy (dnsmadeeasy.com), the leading IP Anycast managed DNS service provider, announces the release of free tool to help system and network administrators with IPv6 implementations. This new tool is available for no cost at IPv6Verify.com.

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The IPv6Verify.com tool allows network and DNS administrators to check the validity of an IPv6 address and to compare two IPv6 addresses to determine if they are the same. IPv6Verify.com also presents the fully expanded notation for an IPv6 address and provides the full reverse DNS PTR record for an IPv6 address.

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IPv6 traffic levels surged over the last 12 months, with the 15-fold increase down to just one application and one ISP, according to a study by Arbor Networks.

Support for IPv6 in µTorrent version 1.8, a version of the world’s most popular BitTorrent client released in August 2008, had a huge effect.

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View the latest video testimonial on IPv6 Act Now, an interview with Marco Hogewoning of Dutch ISP XS4ALL. Marco discusses XS4ALL’s experience rolling out of native IPv6 to ADSL customers.

View more IPv6 testimonial videos, including discussions with Google, Claranet and the Swedish and German governments.