World IPv6 Day begins 24 hours from now. Websites, start your engines.

In all likelihood, you won’t even notice the test. The vast majority (99.95%) of people will be able to access services without interruption: either they’ll connect over IPv6, or their systems will successfully fall back to IPv4. However, as with any next-generation technology, there may be teething pains. We estimate that .05% of systems may fail to fall back to IPv4, so some people may find Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Bing and other participating websites slow or unresponsive on World IPv6 Day. This is often due to misconfigured or misbehaving home networking equipment, such as home routers, that can make a computer think it has IPv6 connectivity when in fact it’s not working.

Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard with other industry players to prepare. Operating system vendors and browser manufacturers have been releasing updates to resolve IPv6 connectivity issues—for example, Google Chrome now incorporates workarounds for malfunctioning IPv6 networks—and we’ve seen router manufacturers test their devices for robust IPv6 support as well. For our part, we’ve been busy adding IPv6 support to services that didn’t yet have it, and fixing minor issues with those that did. And since the best way to find bugs in your services is to hammer on them yourself, Google employees have been operating in “World IPv6 Day mode” for several months now.

Source : [ Google Blog ]

2011-06-06 22:51:43, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ipv6news/~3/7m2OWayz6T8/

World IPv6 Day signals time to modernize the Internet

The Internet Society, an international nonprofit organization that advises on Web standards, policy and education, has declared June 8 World IPv6 Day to give enterprises and ISPs a chance to “stress test” the next-generation Internet protocol to see what works, what breaks and what they need to do to seamlessly migrate their networks to IPv6. It’s also a wake-up call that it’s time to upgrade the World Wide Web.

On that day, more than 200 Web companies—including giants Facebook, Google and Yahoo—will work with ISPs and content-delivery networks to conduct the first global-scale trial of IPv6. For a 24-hour period, participating companies around the world will enable IPv6 on their main services.

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2011-06-06 09:41:40, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/Uab4y0LlgLg/

Migration to new Internet protocol vital for business

Enterprises need to start planning for move to IPv6 to keep their systems relevant.
Complete info at BusinessTimes.

2011-06-06 01:53:16, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7672

Nigeria: Internet Users to Face Disruption June 8

Internet users worldwide will experience some difficulties in accessing the World Wide Web (www) next week Wednesday, following plans by world Internet bodies to carryout a one day test run on the new Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).
Complete info at InformationNigeria.

2011-06-06 01:52:00, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7671

D-Link Announces Participation In World IPv6 Day

Joining the ranks of major organizations to accelerate momentum for IPv6 deployment.
Complete info at Zawya and mysolutioninfo.

2011-06-05 17:37:17, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7670

IPv6 day on 8th June

There was internet panic by some when the last stocks of the traditional IP addresses that all of us are used to were passed down through the system for the last time.
Complete info at neowin, eWeek and AMEinfo.

2011-06-04 22:29:39, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7669

IPv6 security: Plan now and quiz vendors

Surely IPv6, a protocol designed for the internet age, will herald a new era free of many of the old security problems? Not quite, says Rik Ferguson.
Complete info at ZDNet.

2011-06-04 22:07:14, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7667

What Your Business Can Expect on World IPv6 Day

The World IPv6 Day trial this Wednesday will serve as a test for when the Internet runs out of IPv4 addresses next year.
Complete info at PC Advisor, PC World and IBTimes.

2011-06-04 22:01:01, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7668

World IPv6 Day Should Be a Fairly Quiet Day for Most Users

Networking companies and Internet service providers will be scrutinizing what happens to the Internet on World IPv6 Day, but rank and file netizens shouldn't notice a thing.
Complete info at eWeek.

2011-06-04 00:23:58, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7666

Juniper Preps for IPv6 Day

At 00:00 UTC on June 8th, vendors, service and content providers around the world will turn on full IPv6 services on their main Web sites as part of the World IPv6 Day.
Complete info at ENP.

2011-06-04 00:20:46, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7665