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USA: US IPv6 Transition Series: IPv6 Product Profile and Testing Round 2
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Events
Global IPv6 Summit in Taiwan, September 1-2 2008
The Global IPv6 Summit in Taiwan is an annual event marking the milestones in the development and deployment of IPv6 in Taiwan. This Summit is organized by IPv6 Forum and TWNIC and will be held at the NTUH International Convention Center
APNIC 26 Christchurch, New Zealand
APNIC 26 is a five-day event that brings together Internet and networking experts, government representatives, industry leaders, and other interested parties from around the Asia Pacific region to network with colleagues, attend workshops and tutorials, and discuss policies.
Top IPv6 News
We're running out of IPv4 addresses. Time for IPv6. Really. - 8/17/2009
A week ago, we reached the magic number of 2.7 billion IPv4 addresses used. With 3.7 billion possible addresses, this means we now have less than a billion unused IPv4 addresses left. There are 39 blocks of 16.78 million addresses in the IANA global pool and another 339 million addresses that have been given out by IANA to the five Regional Internet Registries, but not yet delegated to ISPs or end-users... Arstechnica
Comprehensive Study Shows IPv6 Shift Isn't Happening - 8/18/2008
Arbor Networks measured IPv6 traffic across nearly 2,400 backbone and peering routers, across 87 ISPs scattered worldwide, at five-minute intervals for June 2007 through June 2008. The resulting data was used to produce what the company considers to be the most comprehensive study of IPv6 data to date. And the news is quite grim... Pcmag.com
Death knell looms for IPv4. Too little too late. - 8/17/2008
The global explosion of technology as the new medium for business could grind to a halt within 18 to 30 months as Internet addresses dry up... Computerworld
IPv6 video monitoring at the Beijing Olympics - 8/8/2008
China Netcom has developed eight innovations in digital communications used for the first time at the "hi-tech Olympics." IPv6-based video monitoring will be used for the first time to offer real-time viewing 24 hours a day, seven days a week end-to-end at Olympic venues and the Olympic Command Center... Chinaview
AARNet Runs First IPv6 Multicast With Asia-Pacific on its Network - 8/5/2008
Australia’s National Research and Education Network (NREN) has allowed Australian and ASEAN participants from 12 organisations to collaborate by running the first ever IPv6 Multicast on its network at the CanalAVIST ICT Forum... Computerworld
Waiting for the internet meltdown - 7/6/2008
The world is heading for a digital doomsday as the net fast runs out of numerical addresses. The end of the internet is nigh - and in less than three years, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Can it be true? The problem is that the world is running out of internet addresses. More than 85% of the available addresses have already been allocated and the OECD predicts we will have run out completely by early 2011... TimesOnline
ICANN misplaces own domain name - 7/6/2008
This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet addresses recently lost track of its own. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said it happened when an Internet registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else.
Making sure the internet delivers - 7/4/2008
Making sure the internet delivers. European researchers have developed affordable test suites that businesses can use to check whether their software will work with the next-generation internet. ICT results Internet applications across the globe are currently being re-engineered in anticipation of the transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) from version 4 over the next three to four years. But before companies can make their IPv6 products commercially available, they will have to thoroughly test performance, standards-compatibility and interoperability.
What's Next for IPv6 in the U.S.? - 7/2/2008
With a federal mandate in place and an expected address crunch looming, is the country any further ahead in adopting IPv6? The U.S. government operates one of the largest technology infrastructures on Earth, and it's all supposed to be IPv6-ready. At least, that was the plan... InternetNews
OMB: Agencies met IPv6 deadline - 7/1/2008
All major agencies met the June 30 deadline for successfully demonstrating their adoption of IPv6 technology, the Office of Management and Budget said today... FCW.com
