ISC Founder to Become Chairman, Chief Scientist

Visionary ISC founder and president Paul Vixie has accepted the role of Chairman and Chief Scientist of the growing company and has appointed Barry Greene his successor as President.
Complete info at Live-PR, Einnews and DMN.

2011-01-07 20:59:58, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6934

Agencies to Address IPv6 in New IT Contracts

Transitioning to next-generation Internet will now be more firmly entrenched in the federal IT acquisition process, according to a new rule published in the Federal Register last month.
Complete info at ExecutiveGov.

2011-01-07 20:57:55, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6933

US Government Releases Two IPv6 PapersIPv6 News

During the last week of December, two US Government agencies released papers on IPv6.

NIST released Special Publication 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6. This comprehensive 188 page paper provides guidelines for federal agencies (and anyone else who might want to take advantage of it) to securely deploy IPv6. NIST was originally tasked by the 2005 White House IPv6 Memo to develop standards in order to address IPv6 compliance for the Federal governments IPv6 transition. NIST has created the USGv6 Profile and detailed testing specifications. In addition, pursuant to Federal Information Security Management Act, NIST was charged with developing standards and guidelines for providing adequate information security for all agency operations and assets. Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 provides clear technical explanations and recommendations for secure IPv6 implementation.

The other paper, Potential Impacts on Communications For IPv4 Exhaustion and IPv6 Transition, was released by the Federal Communications Commission as part of its Working Paper Series. FCC Working Papers are intended to stimulate discussion and critical comment within the FCC, as well as outside the agency, on issues that may affect communications policy, but are not official FCC policy or statements. The FCC Working Paper (which I wrote) was designed to be a high level discussion to raise awareness and provide a succinct description of the policy implications. The paper takes note of the IPv6 transition as an issue that could potentially have implications on FCC and other federal government policy initiatives, including broadband deployment, open Internet, cybersecurity, and law enforcement.

Written by Robert Cannon, Cybertelecom

2011-01-07 06:44:53, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2011/01/06/us-government-releases-two-ipv6-papers/http://www.ipv6news.info

Set aside policiesThe IPv4 Depletion site

All RIRs have implemented or are discussing some changes to their IPv4 allocation policy that will kick in when they receive their last allocation from IANA (should be any day now).
The changes can be divided into two categories. The first category restricts how many IPv4 addresses each individual account holder can get. The second category sets a number of IPv4 addresses aside for a future unforeseen use. Below is an overview over all the policies. Make sure to take those policies into account when you estimate how many IPv4 addresses will be able to get before all IPv4 pools are depleted.

APNIC

ID: prop-062-v002
Status: Implemented

Restriction: Each APNIC account holder will that meets the criteria for an IPv4 allocation will be eligible to request and receive a single allocation no larger than the minimum allocation size.
Set aside: A /16 will be held in reserve for future uses, as yet unforeseen.

LACNIC

ID: LAC-2008-04
Status: Implemented.

Restriction: LACNIC must reserve a last /12 under a special criteria. However LACNIC notes on the website that they forecast that the reserved space may be incremented to /10 by new allocation policies approved by LACNIC PDP.

set aside: No set aside policy exists or are under discussion.

ARIN

ID: Prop-123 and Prop-124
Status: Discussion

Restriction: When ARIN receives its last /8, by IANA implementing section 10.4.2.2, the length of supply that an organization may request will be reduced. An organization may choose to request up to a 3 month supply of IP addresses.
Set aside: Upon receipt of the last /8 that the IANA will allocate to ARIN per the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space, ARIN will place a contiguous /20 in reserve for Critical Infrastructure.

Interesting to note here is that both these still are proposals. The next ARIN meeting will be in April. The global IANA pool will already be depleted at that time.

AfriNIC

ID: AFPUB-2010-v4-005
Status: Discussion

Restriction: During this phase, allocation/assignment of address space will continue as in the Current phase (/24 for a EU and /22 for a LIR) but the maximum will change from /10 to /13.
Allocations and assignments will be made from the /8 pool until we reach a /11. At this point the Transition to IPv6 phase will kick in.
During this phase a minimum allocation/assignment size will be /27. the maximum allocation/assignment will be /22.
If any LIR or End User requesting IPv4 address space during the Exhaustion Phase does not already have IPv6 address space, then AfriNIC shall allocate or assign an IPv6 address block in compliance with the IPv6 allocation or assignment policies in effect at the time.
The current allocation and assignment period of 12 months shall be changed to 8 months. This will help to ensure that LIRs request only for resources they need in the short to medium term, and promote fairness in the equitable distribution of the last IPv4 address pool.
Set aside: A /12 IPv4 address block will be in reserve out of the Last /8.

RIPE

Status: Concluding (will likely soon be implemented)
ID: 2010-02

Restriction: On application for IPv4 resources LIRs will receive IPv4 addresses according to the following:
a. LIRs may only receive one allocation from this /8. The size of the allocation made under this policy will be exactly one /22.
b. LIRs receive only one /22, even if their needs justify a larger allocation.
c. LIRs may apply for and receive this allocation once they meet the criteria to receive IPv4 address space according to the allocation policy in effect in the RIPE NCC service region at the time of application.
d. Allocations will only be made to LIRs if they have already received an IPv6 allocation from an upstream LIR or the RIPE NCC.
Set aside: A /16 will be held in reserve for some future uses

2011-01-07 06:43:18, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2011/01/07/set-aside-policies/http://www.ipv4depletion.com

A (relatively) safe way of moving to IPv6

NIST offers a guide to avoiding the most likely risks.
Complete info at GCN.

2011-01-06 20:16:46, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6932

Residential IPv6 in Canada 'significantly' low

IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) is an IP version "designed to succeed Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)", says the Wikipedia. "IPv4 is the first publicly used Internet Protocol and has been in operation since 19813, it says, going on it's an "Internet Layer protocol for packet-switched internetworking and provides end-to-end datagram transmission across multiple IP networks.
Complete info at p2pnet.

2011-01-06 20:14:45, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6931

IPv6 Guide Provides Path to Secure Deployment of Next-Generation Internet Protocol

As the day draws nearer for the world to run out of the unique addresses that allow us to use the Internet—now predicted to happen by the end of 2012—researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have issued a guide for managers, network engineers, transition teams and others to help them deploy the next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) securely.
Complete info at newswise, ScienceBlog and eScienceNews.

2011-01-06 20:03:31, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6930

Savvy businesses should move to IPv6 in 2011, expert says

For the past several months, experts have been warning about the impending extinction of IPv4 web addresses, long the standard for the tech industry, and savvy businesses should take heed by migrating to or otherwise facilitating IPv6 technology in 2011.
Complete info at Rackspace.

2011-01-06 20:00:45, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6929

US Government Releases Two IPv6 Papers

During the last week of December, two US Government agencies released papers on IPv6.
Complete info at CircleID.

2011-01-06 19:57:38, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6928

How to successfully access a dual-stacked Internet

In the near future the Internet will become fragmented. The moment IPv4 addresses run out—which is likely to occur in the first quarter of 2011—there will be Internet users who can only surf over IPv6, and there will eventually be websites that can only be reached over IPv6.
Complete article at TCP.IP.World.

2011-01-06 19:55:52, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6927