IPv6’s long march - 9/4/2008

With the thousands of IPv6 controlled lights dimming over the 2008 Olympics, the long march on the road to IPv6 continues as the Olympic IPv6 Workout enters history.

IPv6… unstoppable road to hyperconnectivity : blame it on opiates! - 8/1/2008

Some think IPv6 with its myriad addresses will accelerate the evolution of a hyperconnected world. But could a world where everything and everybody is sensed, monitored, located, to augment our quasi real-time interaction with the world outside our little selves, lead to total dependency, if not to gradual stupidity of the human race? Not surprisingly, a favourite topic for (late night) Internet Conference bar discussions...

IPv6 and MEID’s… stop choking on 32 bits - 7/1/2008

Both the Internet and North American cellphones are choking under a 32 bit limitation and reactions from protagonists involved in both cases offer striking similarities.... Just like IPv4 addresses, the ESN was considered sufficient to uniquely identify mobile phones long enough to ignore any alarmist views of impending shortages.... by Yves Poppe

IPv6 and airline tickets… Tales of two transitions - 6/3/2008

The internet bus continues to accelerate straight into the IPv4 address depletion wall with spirited discussions continuing on how to divvy up the remnants of the address space. Obviously all five Regional Internet Registries (RIR’s) want to make sure they get their fair share from IANA but what a fair share is remains the subject of interpretation. In the meantime scenarios of a speculative land rush and auctions of ever smaller address blocks abound with unattractive consequences such as an explosion of the size of the routing table and a stunted growth of the global internet economy . That it was not supposed to be that way was colorfully illustrated by Geoff Huston at the RIPE meeting in Berlin last month... by Yves Pope

IPv6… Becoming a hot topic again? - 4/27/2008

Is IPv6 a hot topic again in the wake of the increased coverage of the looming IPv4 address depletion? This was the theme of a coffee break discussion we had at the recent MENOG3 (1) conference in Kuwait... by Yves Poppe