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Next “SIP Over IPv6″ Task Group Call On Thursday, June 20,

For those interested in helping make Voice-over-IP (VoIP) work over IPv6, and specifically VoIP using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the next conference call of the SIP Forum’s “SIP Over IPv6″ Task Group happens tomorrow, Thursday, June 20, 2013, at: 19:00 Central European Summer Time 18:00 British Summer Time 13:00 US Eastern Daylight Time 10:00 US Pacific Daylight Time The dial-in number will be +1 972 756 9798 with a conference PIN  of 009444.  Additional country-specific dial-in numbers can be found in the email announcement. In the agenda announcement from Rifaat Shekh-Yusef the items to be discussed include: 1. draft-klatsky-dispatch-ipv6-impact-ipv4 Discuss the feedback and how to continue the discussion on the DISPATCH mailing list *Talk about the options for moving the document forward (AD sponsor vs. new WG) 2. Discuss the text for two new sections that Mohamed Boucadair provided. (See “IPv6 Implementation Guidelines” & “IPv6/IPv4 Interworking Function: Avoid IPv6 address Leakage?” in the attached document) Should these be added to this draft, which means that we are extending the scope of this draft? or Should we create a separate draft? 3. Happy Eyeballs draft-yusef-dispatch-happy-eyeballs-sip-00-02.txt With UDP 4. Sunset4 WG We received an email of interest from Marc Blanchet, co-chair of sunset4 wg, stating that this work is relevant to the work they are chartered to do. Marc suggested that we socialize this work with the sunset4 wg, which I did already. He also suggested that we present this work[…]

Start-up readies network-optimized Linux for data centers

Start-up Cumulus Networks this week has emerged with a Linux network operating system designed for programmable data centers like the ones Google and Facebook are building. The company's Cumulus Linux OS operating system includes IPv4 and IPv6 routing, plus data center and network orchestration hooks. Much like OpenFlow for independent, software-defined control of network forwarding, Cumulus Linux is intended to run on commodity network hardware and bring open source extensibility to high capacity data centers. Linux did the same for data center servers 15 years ago, Cumulus officials state, and ushered in widely-used innovations like virtualization. But networking has lagged the trend -- advancements like software-defined networking (SDN) and programmability are very recent, and strategies from the major vendors are typically tied tightly to their own OSes and hardware. The Cisco ONE plan, for example, is tied to Cisco IOS, IOS-XR and NX-OS. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google Fiber Shows 77.55% IPv6 Deployment In Latest World IPv6 Launch Statistics

Over on the World IPv6 Launch blog, Mat Ford just announced the most recent set of IPv6 measurements from the 114 network operators participating in the measurements program (and any network operator can join).  Mat notes the great news that an ISP in Singapore, Starhub, moved from 0.1% to over 8% deployment in the space of a month. That is outstanding! Congratulations to the crew at Starhub! What I personally found even more fascinating was that when I went to the World IPv6 Launch measurements page and clicked on the “IPv6 deployment” column header twice to get a list sorted by the highest percentage… Google Fiber came out as #1 with a staggering 77.55% of all observed traffic being over IPv6:   To be clear, let us remember how these statistics are collected. Google, Facebook and Yahoo all measure the amount of IPv6 traffic they are seeing coming in to their respective sites and services from all the participating networks. (You can read more about their specific techniques at the bottom of the Measurements page.) That information is then averaged and presented on the Measurements page for each ISP. In this case 77.55% of the traffic received across those three measurement providers from the Google Fiber network was all over IPv6.  Amazing!  Congratulations to the Google Fiber team! P.S. It’s also interesting to note the growth of many networks versus where they were when we last wrote about the statistics[…]

IPv6 security: What you need to know

In the advent of increased IPv6 adoption, Johannes Weber has created an overview for RIPE Labs of the main types of attacks that IPv6 may face and the toolkits that can help test equipment and security appliances.

IPv6 Security - An Overview

The advent of IPv6 changes not only the network components, but also the security field shifts. We see new types of attacks or at least variations of the attacks we know from IPv4. This article provides an overview of the IPv6 security vulnerabilities that arise with the launch of IPv6.

IPv6hackers Group To Meet In Berlin on July 28, 2013

Interested in IPv6 security? Want to see presentations by people working in the field? If so the members of the “ipv6hackers” mailing list are planning to hold their first face-to-face meeting in Berlin on July 28, 2013, the Sunday prior to IETF 87 in Berlin, Germany.  From the announcement email: We’re planning to have our first in-person meeting on July 28th, 2013, in Berlin (most likely in the afternoon, between lunch and the IETF welcome reception). The venue would be either the IETF venue (InterContinental Berlin), or some nearby hotel/room (to be confirmed soon). We’re planning to have some presentations (which MUST be accompanied with code ), and might also have an IPv6 mini-hackathon (i.e., work on code, test implementations, try stuff). Fernando Gont has asked people who are interested in attending to complete a short survey so that he can know how many people are planning to attend. If you are interested in IPv6 security, I have found the IPv6 hackers mailing list to be a useful list to monitor as a good number of IPv6 security researchers do participate in the list.  You can see from the archives some of the topics that are discussed. It is open for anyone to subscribe.  There is also a LinkedIn group but as Fernando notes he created the group to help people connect on LinkedIn not as a discussion forum – discussion happens on the email list.

InfoWorld Promotes DNSSEC To Boost Internet Security

We were very pleased to see InfoWorld publishing this week an article by Roger Grimes titled “Boost your Internet security with DNSSec” that lays out the case for implementing DNSSEC and explains the validation side of DNSSEC.  Given the large audience that InfoWorld has it is good to see DNSSEC getting this coverage. I’d suggest another useful resource for people reading that article would be SURFNet’s white paper about enabling DNSSEC validation in DNS resolvers as that paper provides step-by-step guidance to enabling validation in BIND, Unbound and Windows Server 2012. I’d also note for people wanting to experiment with DNSSEC validation, Google’s Public DNS servers do now support DNSSEC and so you can at least temporarily point your system to Google’s servers to try out validation.  As we’ve also noted in the past, anyone who is a Comcast subscriber in North America also has DNSSEC validation happening by default, as do people using many of the ISPs in Sweden, Brazil and the Czech Republic. As I noted at the beginning, the article covers the validation side of DNSSEC, but for that to really work we also need to get more domains signed with DNSSEC.  I would encourage people to look at our tutorials on how to sign your domain using common registrars – and to ask your registrar when they will let you use DNSSEC if they are not on the list of DNSSEC-capable registrars maintained by ICANN. Again, it’s[…]

DNSSEC Test Sites

If you have a new application or service where you want to test how DNSSEC validation works, the sites listed below are ones you can use.  If you want to test validation of the DANE protocol, please see our separate page of DANE test sites. Note that the sites below are domain names and websites with either good or deliberately mis-configured DNSSEC signatures.  If you are looking for web sites offering tools or services where you can test the status of DNSSEC, please see our list of DNSSEC tools. Sites With Good DNSSEC Signatures Today there are millions of domain names out there with valid DNSSEC signatures and so you have many, many options.  Two of the domains you can use to obtain valid signatures are: internetsociety.org ietf.org If you are testing web validation, the addresses are: http://www.internetsociety.org/ http://www.ietf.org/ Sites With Bad DNSSEC Signatures The more interesting tests to perform are with domains that are bad and will generate an error in your application or service.  The following sites have been deliberately mis-configured with bad DNSSEC signatures: dnssec-failed.org   (operated by Comcast) rhybar.cz        (operated by CZ.NIC) On the web, they are: http://www.dnssec-failed.org/ http://www.rhybar.cz/ The DNSSEC Tools site at http://www.dnssec-tools.org/ also provides a test in that if you connect to the site and do not perform DNSSEC validation you will see an image appear on the page telling you that you are connecting insecurely. Adding More Sites If you have a site[…]

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Happy Eyeballs

The IETF has developed solutions that promote a healthy IPv4 and IPv6 co-existence. The happy eyeballs algorithm for instance, provides recommendations to application developers to help prevent bad user experience in situations where IPv6 connectivity is broken. We study the effectiveness of the happy eyeballs algorithm.

A year on: Geoff Huston takes a look with Circle ID at the past year in IPv6 deployment

In June 2012, 0.60% of the world’s Internet population could successfully retrieve a dual-stack web object using IPv6. A year later, an average of 1.29% of Internet users prefer to use IPv6 to  do the same. While the absolute numbers may sound small, this doubling in users from 13.5 million to 29.3 million is a significant achievement in 12 months, argues Huston.

Renewing the network: Looking to the future

HP Distinguished Technologist Yanick Pouffary from HP takes a look at how businesses can renew networks using IPv6. According to Pouffary, networks are expected to grow to accommodate 50 billion connected devices in the near future, but before this happens we must simplify, rationalise, streamline and evolve the corporate network.

How Many RIPE Atlas Probes Believe They Have IPv6 (But Are Wrong)?

To check the connectivity of an IPv6 device with RIPE Atlas, one typically asks N probes to ping the target and deduces the reachability of the target from the percentage of failures. But RIPE Atlas probes, like many IPv6 devices, often believe they are IPv6-connected while they are not.

At the current rate, IPv6 won’t be fully implemented until 2148

How much longer will IPv4 last, and how can we speed up IPv6 deployment? In this VentureBeat article, CloudFare suggests it could take just seven years until we see full IPv6 implementation if the uptake is exponential, but that the current rate of progress suggests it would take until 10 May 2148.

Message from the NRO regarding the first anniverary of the World IPv6 Launch

World IPv6 Day: A Year in the Life

On the 6th June 2012 we held the World IPv6 Launch Day. Unlike the IPv6 event of the previous year, World IPv6 Day, where the aim was to switch on IPv6 on as many major online services as possible, the 2012 program was somewhat different. This time the effort was intended to encourage service providers to switch on IPv6 and leave it on. What has happened since then? Have we switched it on and left it on? What has changed in the world of IPv6 over the past 12 months? Who's been doing all the work? In this article I'd like to undertake a comparison of then and now snapshots of IPv6 deployment data. For this exercise I'm using the data set that we have collected using a broad based sampling of Internet users through online-advertisements. The daily snapshots of the V6 measurement can be found here, and the breakdown of this data by economy and by provider can be found on this page and here. First a look at the big number picture A year ago, in June 2012, we measured some 0.60% of the world's Internet user population that was able to successfully retrieve a dual stack web object using IPv6. At the time the estimate of the total user population of the Internet was some 2.24B users, so 0.60% equates to 13.5M users who were using a working IPv6 protocol stack, and preferring to use IPv6 when[…]

India aims for IPv6 conversion by 2017

The Indian government recently released its updated IPv6 roadmap to help drive deployment, according to Information Week India, which details some pilot projects and a new set of deliverables created with the aim to make the complete transition to IPv6 by 2017.

Seeking DNSSEC Speaking Proposals For ICANN 47 DNSSEC Workshop in Durban, South Africa

Interested in sharing your experience implementing DNSSEC?  Have a new tool or service for DNSSEC you would like to demonstrate? Are you experiencing a challenge with getting DNSSEC implemented that you think the larger community should be aware of? Have you found a new and interesting use for DNSSEC?  Or done something new with the DANE protocol? If so, and if you are planning to attend ICANN 47 in Durban, South Africa, the program committee (of which I am a member) for the DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 47 is actively seeking proposals to include in the workshop.  As noted in the Call For Participation, we are seeking presentation ideas on topics such as: DNSSEC Activities in Africa The Operation Realities of Running DNSSEC DNSSEC and Enterprise Activities When Unexpected DNSSEC Events Occur Preparing for Root Key Rollover DNSSEC: Regulative, Legislative and Persuasive Approaches to Encouraging Deployment DANE and Other DNSSEC Applications Use of DNSSEC in the Reverse Space Please see the Call For Participation for more details. We are also open to presentations related to DNSSEC that don’t fit exactly in one of these listed topics.  We’ve already got a great list of presentations but we still could add a few more. You can view the program and presentations from the ICANN 46 DNSSEC Workshop in Beijing to understand the kind of presentations we are seeking. I’ll note that we’re changing the format a bit for ICANN 47 to have[…]

RIPE Labs Reports on IPv6 Readiness of Today’s Networks

To what degree are network operators engaging with IPv6? How ready are they to deploy IPv6? Those were the questions RIPE Labs’ Antony Gollan took on in his post today on the RIPE Labs blog in celebration of the 1 year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. The RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry (RIR) for the European region, uses a measure they call “RIPEness” to rate the IPv6 readiness of their members (who RIPE refers to as “Local Internet Registries” or “LIRs”). As he shows in the chart, the situation has improved in the past year: He also touches on an effort to create a “fifth star” of IPv6 RIPEness that would measure whether LIRs are providing content over IPv6 and providing IPv6 access to end users. He also goes on to talk about their measurements showing the percentage of networks announcing IPv6 prefixes into the global routing system – and provides an excellent chart showing the growth (you’ll need to read the post to see it). It’s great to see these measurements and statistics from RIPE NCC that coincide so well with the information we’re seeing out of other IPv6 statistics sites, including the World IPv6 Launch measurements.

BIND 9 Users Should Upgrade to Most Recent Version to Avoid Remote Exploit

A remote exploit in the BIND 9 DNS software could allow hackers to trigger excessive memory use, significantly impacting the performance of DNS and other services running on the same server. BIND is the most popular open source DNS server, and is almost universally used on Unix-based servers, including those running on Linux, the BSD variants, Mac OS X, and proprietary Unix variants like Solaris. A flaw was recently discovered in the regular expression implementation used by the libdns library, which is part of the BIND package. The flaw enables a remote user to cause the 'named' process to consume excessive amounts of memory, eventually crashing the process and tying up server resources to the point at which the server becomes unresponsive. Affected BIND versions include all 9.7 releases, 9.8 releases up to 9.8.5b1, and 9.9 releases up to version 9.9.3b1. Only versions of BIND running on UNIX-based systems are affected; the Windows version is not exploitable in this way. The Internet Systems Consortium considers this to be a critical exploit. All authoritative and recursive DNS servers running the affected versions are vulnerable. The most recent versions of BIND in the 9.8 and 9.9 series have been updated to close the vulnerability by disabling regular expression support by default. The 9.7 series is no longer supported and those using it should update to one of the more recent versions. However, if that is not desirable or possible there is a[…]

ISOC Funds 11 Projects that Enhance Internet Environments in Underserved Regions

Each year, a number of projects around the world receive funding from the Internet Society to do everything from connecting Sri Lankan farmers with up-to-date sustainable agriculture information, to teaching ICT skills to at-risk youth in Africa, to working with local engineers to further their IPv6 implementation knowledge. These projects are planned and brought to life by Internet Society members.The Internet Society today announced funding for 11 community-based Internet projects that will enhance the Internet ecosystem in underserved communities around the world. The Community Grants are awarded twice each year to Internet Society Chapters and Members. Recipients receive up to US$10,000 to implement their projects. The 11 projects funded in this round of grants will: Enable teachers and students in the Sultanate of Oman to produce and share video presentations that meet Omani curriculum standards and students' needs Facilitate access to the Internet via a wireless mesh network for students, parents, and others in rural Panama, enabling them to use their own equipment at home Provide research for an evidence-based ICT policy to help bridge the Internet divide in Ethiopia Develop online resources to help Internet Society chapters effectively create and implement cost-effective video streaming to its membership and the wider community Create a digital community of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in Kenya to serve as a virtual mentorship program Support the Koh Sirae School in Thailand by enhancing their wireless network, updating the learning center[…]

World IPv6 Launch Media Report #1 – Mythic Beasts, Telefonica in Peru, Municipal WiFI, CloudFlare and more…

We’ve been thrilled to see all the articles, stories, blog posts, news releases and other media appearing about the anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. The stories are still streaming in and we’re tracking them through mechanisms like the #v6launch and #IPv6 hashtags on Twitter and on Google+.  Here are just a few of the many articles we found interesting today: IPv6 Launch Day – One Year Later – In this Enterprise Networking Planet piece, Sean Michael Kerner interviewed the Internet Society’s Phil Roberts to catch up on what has changed in the last year. Happy IPv6 Day: Usage On the Rise, Attacks Too – The good folks at CloudFlare gave some stats around the IPv6 traffic they are seeing and also detailed a couple of attacks they have seen over IPv6. They also provided their guesses as to when we turn off IPv4 on either a linear or exponential case. Needless to say, we hope it’s closer to the exponential side of things! IPv6-Enabled Municipal WiFi Network in Douglasville, GA – While we don’t usually write about news releases related to IPv6 products or services, we did think this was a very cool milestone – the deployment of an IPv6-enabled municipal WiFi network in Douglasville, GA. From the news release: “The municipal WiFi network covers about 60 acres collectively, including downtown Douglasville, making it one of the largest public WiFi networks in Georgia.”  Apparently this was paid for by Google as part of its community outreach[…]

New Tutorial: Making Content Available Over IPv6

How can you best make your web content available over IPv6? What are the different strategies you can use? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using dual-stack, load balancers, 6to4, NAT64 and proxy servers? On this, the 1st anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, we are delighted to publish a new tutorial on this exact topic.  Titled simply “Making Content Available Over IPv6“, the new document is available at: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/making-content-available-over-ipv6/ The tutorial is written by Sander Steffann, who has a great amount of experience with IPv6, and covers the steps for how you can make your content available over IPv6 using: Native IPv6 Using load balancers Using IPv6-to-IPv4 proxy servers NAT64 He provides some excellent diagrams and examples of configuration files and assesses both the benefits and drawbacks of each solution. We encourage you to take a read through this document and please do let us know if this helps you make your content available over IPv6!  

One Year On From The World IPv6 Launch: Who’s Doing What With IPv6?

To mark the first anniversary of the World IPv6 Launch on 6 June 2012, the RIPE NCC has published an article on RIPE Labs looking at how ready networks are to deploy IPv6. With 18.1% of networks in the RIPE NCC service region now announcing IPv6 prefixes (an increase of 3.1% from the year before, and ahead of the global average increase of 2.4% over the same time period), the results are encouraging, but indicate that there is still work to be done.

One Year Later: Who's Doing What With IPv6?

One year on from the World IPv6 Launch in June 2012, we wanted to see how much progress has been made towards the goal of global IPv6 deployment. Both APNIC and Google are carrying out measurements at the end user level, which show that around 1.29% (APNIC) and 1.48% (Google) of end users are capable of accessing the IPv6 Internet. Measurements taken from this time last year show 0.49% (APNIC) and 0.72% (Google), which means the amount of IPv6-enabled end users has more than doubled in the past 12 months. Rather than looking at the end user, the measurements the RIPE NCC conducts look at the networks themselves. To what extent are network operators engaging with IPv6? And how ready are they to deploy it on their networks? IPv6 RIPEness The RIPE NCC measures the IPv6 "readiness" of LIRs in its service region by awarding stars based on four indicators. LIRs receive stars when: They receive an initial allocation of IPv6 address space from the RIPE NCC The IPv6 address space is visible in global routing There is a route6 object registered in the RIPE Database Reverse DNS has been set up for the IPv6 address space The pie charts below show the number of LIRs holding 0-4 RIPEness stars at the time of the World IPv6 Launch in June 2012, and the number today. The first RIPEness star is awarded when the LIR receives an allocation of IPv6 address[…]

IPv6: Less Talk and More Walk

The sixth month of the year is both symbolic and historic for IPv6 and a good time to take stock and see how we've progressed. But instead of looking at the usual suspects of number of networks, number of users, number of websites, etc… on IPv6, let's look at some new trends to see what's happening. At gogo6 we've been measuring the "Buzz" of the IPv6 market every week over the last two and a half years. Each tweet, blog and news story on IPv6 has been counted, categorized and indexed for posterity. By graphing the 102,641 tweets, 6,620 blogs and 4,251 news stories during that time we capture the "Talk" of the market. Reviewing Graph 1 shows spikes in the right places but what is striking is the definitive downward trend in volume as time goes on. The "Talk" is going down. This could be interpreted as a slowing of interest or a job complete so next I dug into the gogoNET social network database. By plotting the registration dates of the 47,142 networking professionals who joined during this same period of time I could infer the level of interest and work being done in deploying IPv6. The resulting trend line in Graph 2 is flat indicating a constant interest and flow of networking professionals preparing to implement IPv6. These are the "Workers". The fruit of this steadfast labor pool can be seen in Graph 3. Plotting the first[…]

Switzerland Overtakes Romania as Top IPv6 Adopter

According to recent statistics by Google, Switzerland has achieved the top for IPv6 adoption, passing Romania which topped the charts for nearly a year. Jo Best reporting in ZDNet: IPv6 adoption stands at 10.11 percent in Switzerland — the highest penetration of any country, according to stats from Google, which takes a snapshot of adoption by measuring the proportion of users that access Google services over IPv6… It's been suggested that the sudden spike in Switzerland's IPv6 adoption has been down to Swisscom, the country's biggest telco with around 55 percent of the broadband market and 60 percent of mobile, moving to adopt it. Comparison of IPv6-Enabled Web Browsers in Different Countries (Source Google / Visit Chart Page) Follow CircleID on TwitterMore under: IPv6

Switzerland takes the IPv6 crown

This ZDNet article reveals that Switzerland has overtaken Romania to become the world’s leading IPv6 adopter with the article suggesting responsibility lies with Swisscom, Switzerland’s largest telco, for its active efforts to push IPv6 adoption in the country.

IPv6 traffic forecast to grow nearly twenty-fold by 2017

More traffic will traverse the Internet in 2017 than the total amount from 1984 to 2012, according to the Cisco 2013 Visual Networking Index report. By the end of 2017, 23.9% of IP traffic will be over IPv6 – nearly a twenty-fold increase from the end of 2012.

NRO Calls for Greater Investment in IPv6 Deployment

APNIC Director General Paul Wilson, speaking on behalf of the Number Resource Organization, outlined a list of specific measures that governments and businesses can take to speed up IPv6 deployment – a critical factor in determining the stability of the Internet in the near future, according to his address at the World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum.

NRO calls for greater investment in IPv6 deployment

IPv6 RIPEness - Implementing the Fifth Star

In this article we present the first publicly available beta version of the fifth IPv6 RIPEness star. This measures real IPv6 deployment from LIRs in the RIPE NCC service region. The methodology is what we think to be the best compromise yet between simple and fair. In this first version, 573 LIRs (>9%) qualify for the fifth star.

Life in a Dual Stack World

Last week was the 2013 North American IPv6 Summit conference. This was the 6th year of the IPv6 conference held in Denver, CO. One of the items that all attendees received at the registration booth was an IPv6 Buddy keypad. This got people thinking about what other changes we might expect to experience as we move into a dual-protocol Internet world. Picture of my new little IPv6 Buddy.

Using Dual Protocol for SIEMs Evasion

It is just a fact of life that attackers and defenders are now operating in a dual-protocol world. With the addition of IPv6, attackers are learning new tricks and defenders will need to anticipate and protect against those new attacks. Attackers will try to use IPv4 and IPv6, each alone or in combination, for their exploits. We can predict that attacks will use a combination of IPv4 and IPv6...

Core Networking and Security 100th Blog Post

This is my 100th blog post for the Network World Cisco Subnet community. As I reflect on the last four years of writing this blog, I think about the fun I've had sharing ideas with you and hearing your feedback. In this blog I list the most popular articles and review how IPv6 adoption has changed over the years. I share with you my writing process and ask for your input on future blogs. Most Popular...

IPv6 Certifications

Many networking, systems and security engineers have been studying IPv6-related topics for many years. You may be wondering if you can get a certification to show for all the time and effort you have spent learning IPv6. IPv6 has been incorporated into vendor certifications and other non-vendor IPv6-specific certifications. You can work toward attaining these certifications to show your current...

HGI's new QoS spec adds IPv6 support for home gateways

The Home Gateway Initiative on Tuesday published an updated QoS specification that incorporates support for IPv6 on home gateway devices.read more

IPv6 moved forward in 2012; Level 3's Jeff Storey to speak at upcoming Citi conference

Wireline news from across the Web: @FierceTelecom RT @arstechnica: IPv6 takes one step forward, IPv4 two steps back in 2012. Article | Follow @FierceTelecom > Allure Energy will use the Consumer Electronics Show next week in Las Vegas to introduce their new EverSense 2.0 product. Release More Also Noted >>read more

IPv6 usage is growing! Stay connected!

Work with IPv6 continues. I do see changes in my customer base. In every meeting, regardless of the topic, I get a question about “that IPv6 stuff”. People are curious on what’s happening. My recent answer has been ‘-It’s making huge progress. It’s gone from not being on the to-do list to “Yes, hmmm. We [...]

U.S. Government Progress on IPv6 Deployment

The United States government has been striving to deploy IPv6 for many years. October 1st was the date that the government wanted to have functional IPv6-enabled Internet applications. Some agencies were able to configure some of their systems to use IPv6, but many systems did not achieve the goal. We should check how many of these systems are using IPv6 and what the government will do in the coming...