Does IPv6 Even Work?

With the free pool of IPv4 address space now exhausted, transitioning to IPv6 is set to become increasingly important. IPv6, however, isn't without its own set of challenges; and implementing it isn't as easy as simply flipping a switch.
Complete info at EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.

2011-03-02 15:18:51, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7239

Dell 1355cnw Color MFP

The Dell 1355cnw color multifunction printer will appeal to small offices, as it combines print, copy, scan, and fax capabilities in an inexpensive ($420 as of March 1, 2011) package.
Complete info at ComputerWorld, PC World and PC Advisor.

2011-03-02 15:16:57, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7238

Technology changes are coming to the web

Most people dont think too much about the technology underlying the Internet. They just want videos to play, pages to appear and e-mail to work. Behind the scenes, however, big changes are under way. They will affect the Internet at its most fundamental level. Its good to have a basic knowledge of these changes. This way, you can decipher whats true and not when youre out surfing the Web&.

&The Internet is upgrading to the IPv6 addressing system. Every computer, smart phone and Web-connected gadget has an Internet Protocol address. The IP address identifies these gadgets online, allowing them to communicate. Currently, IP addresses are governed by Internet Protocol version 4, or IPv4. This provides roughly 4.3 billion addresses.

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2011-03-02 09:31:29, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/RU736GWpmb4/

IPv6 knowledge is 'all over the map,' CIRA says

After wrapping up its first ever Canadian Internet Forum in Ottawa last week, CIRA head Byron Holland gives his thoughts on the state of IPv6 readiness among Canadian IT shops. Why he compares the entire process to a big supply chain.
Complete info at itWorldCanada.

2011-03-01 23:21:39, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7237

Verizon Expands Support for Next-Generation Internet Protocol Across Dedicated Internet Services

Businesses and Government Agencies Can Now Send IPv6 Traffic Across Verizon Internet Dedicated Services in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Complete info at DigitalJournal, SunHerald and TradersHuddle.

2011-03-01 23:19:34, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7236

The depletion of Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) and the transition to Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6)

The recent announcement by IANA that IPv4 is depleted makes one ponder; how did 4.3 billion addresses run out already? What impact will transitioning to a newer version of IP addresses have on usage? Well, when IPv4 was developed, the developers did not foresee a rapid growth in the Internet. However, a sudden demand for IP address emerged as a result of new technologies, especially mobile technologies (mobile phones, PDAs, Smartphone, mobile computers) in countries like China, India, the USA, and now, the African continent.

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2011-03-01 10:02:04, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/Hn6DTMJHI8w/

Caidagram: Visualising Geographically Annotated Internet MeasurementsIPv6 News

With measurement networks rapidly evolving up to hundreds of nodes (see RIPE Atlas as a prominent recent example), it becomes more and more challenging to extract useful visualisations from tons of collected data. At the same time, geographical information related to Internet measurements (either known or inferred with state-of-the-art techniques) can be exploited to build tools based on geography as a common knowledge base.

We wanted to develop a tool to visualise different classes of geographically annotated Internet data, e.g., topology, address allocation, DNS and economical data. In cooperation with The Cooperative Association of for Internet Data Analysis CAIDA, we developed a new interactive tool Caidagram derived from a decades-old visualisation technique called a cartogram. A cartogram is a map whose geometry is distorted to convey new information. A classic example depicts the United States with geographic distance distorted as a function of the population, coloured by the results of the 2004 presidential elections.

Each Caidagram extends the geographic mapping metaphor to other variables, while attempting to maximise intuitiveness and readability. We used Caidagrams to create interactive animations illustrating data trends over time. We show two examples of how a Caidagram can provide insight into real Internet data.

Methodology and Results

In the first example, we look at round trip times (RTT) between different end points, including one-to-many scenarios where we depict RTTs from different locations to one single endpoint. The common endpoint is normally placed in the centre of concentric circles that represent increasing distances.

In our example, the centre represents K-root (including all anycast instances) and the concentric circles represent RTT values. Countries are placed within the concentric circle that corresponds with the average RTT value of that country. This value was determined by combining the RTT values of all test traffic measurement boxes in that country as measured with the RIPE NCC DNS Monitoring service DNSMON. The Test Traffic Measurements network TTM is a network of measurement devices deployed by the RIPE NCC in various locations all over the world.

In Figure 1, you can see a frame from an animation showing round trip times to the K root server. The countries circling around the center, are those in which we placed more than one RIPE NCC TTM monitoring box: USA, The Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, UK, Germany, Luxembourg, Estonia, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, Czech Republic, Israel, Cyprus. To increase readability, countries on the same continent are shown in the same colour.

In order to keep latency to a minimum, there are K-root instances on most continents and often more than one. However, sometimes a TTM box queries a root server instance that is on a different continent. This will increase the RTT value and places the country further away from the centre of the image as is the case for the US and Australia in our example.

The second example uses a more traditional cartogram technique to compare quantitative per-country Internet statistics, such as the number of Internet addressing resources in a country. The image below distorts the shape of each country, by either inflating or deflating its boundaries, depending on the number of Autonomous Systems (ASes) assigned to organisations in that country. At the same time, the colour indicates what percentage of these ASes are IPv6 enabled which means, the AS announces one or more IPv6 prefixes (red means no IPv6 enabled ASes and green means all ASes are IPv6 enabled).

The US is very inflated because of the many AS numbers assigned. However, you can also see that only around 10% of these ASes are IPv6 enabled. On the other hand, some European countries, most visibly The Netherlands, are shown in light green, which means almost 50% of the ASes are IPv6 enabled. South America and Africa are very small in this image, because not many AS numbers are assigned in these regions. The underlying data for this image is taken from v6asns.ripe.net (see also Networks with IPv6 over Time)

Claudio Squarcella presented Caidagram at RIPE 61 in Rome. The tool is implemented with AJAX for compatibility with most modern web browsers, and uses the Google Web Toolkit and Raphaël, a Javascript library for vector graphics. You can also view a demo version of the tool or look at the source code. Please also see the article contributed by Claudio Squarcella on RIPE Labs Caidagram :Visualising Geographically Annotated Internet Measurements.

Try Caidagram now!

(Please note that this is work in progress and will be improved over time.)

Written by Mirjam Kuehne

2011-03-01 08:41:58, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2011/02/28/caidagram-visualising-geographically-annotated-internet-measurements/http://www.ipv6news.info

A Politically Incorrect Guide to IPv6IPv6 News

Every packet of data sent over the Internet is sent from one IP address to another. The IP addresses in the Internet serve somewhat the same function as phone numbers in the US phone system, fixed length numeric identifiers where the first part tells what network the address is on. Since the dawn of the Internet in the early 1980s, the IP addresses in use have been IPv4, 32 bit addresses which means there are about 4 billion of them. Unless youve been living under a rock, youve doubtless seen reports that the supply of IPv4 addresses is running out. Earlier this month IANA, the master allocation authority, handed out the last so-called /8, a large chunk of 16 million addresses, to one of the regional address registries, and sometime months or perhaps a few years after that, the registries will hand out the last pieces of their chunks. Then what?

The conventional wisdom is that everyone needs to support IPv6, a mostly compatible upgrade to IPv4 with much larger addresses, by the time the v4 space runs out. But Im not so sure, particularly for e-mail.

Theres two unanswered questions here. One is is how hard it will be for new or expanding networks to get IPv4 address space. The other is how important IPv6 addresses will be to be able to reach the rest of the net. The conventional answers are very hard and very important, but I think the real answers to both, for the next several years, at least, is not very. Below is my three-part post where I opine about getting IPv4 address space, addressing and reachability.

A politically incorrect guide to IPv6, Part I

A politically incorrect guide to IPv6, Part II

A politically incorrect guide to IPv6, Part III

Written by John Levine, Author, Consultant & Speaker

2011-03-01 08:41:49, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2011/02/28/a-politically-incorrect-guide-to-ipv6/http://www.ipv6news.info

Internet Grows to More Than 205 Million Domain Names in Fourth Quarter of 2010

The global base of Internet domain names grew by nearly 3.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published by VeriSign, Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
Complete info at TMCnet, iStockAnalyst and Live-PR.

2011-03-01 08:02:34, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7235

Auldhouse lands IPv6, Oracle Sun training

Auldhouse has become the first training organisation to be approved by the IPv6 Task Force to provide training in the new internet protocol - but it does not have an exclusive training status, says Task Force head Murray Milner.
Complete info at ComputerWorld.

2011-03-01 08:00:12, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7234