Why IPv6 will change the way you game: an interview with Geoff Huston

Geoff, can you tell us a bit about yourself, your history with the development of the internet in Australia, and what youre up to now?

I stumbled across networking while working at the Australian National University in the 1980s, and had the opportunity to construct the first national Internet in Australia in the very early 1990s: the Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet). Ive been working in the Internet pretty exclusively since then, including a stint at Telstra working on Telstras Internet Services and now I work for the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the folk who manage Internet Protocol addresses in the Asia Pacific Region. Ive spent a lot of time on IP technology, and have chaired a number of working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force and also spent some years on the Internet Architecture Board. So I guess Im pretty familiar with many aspects of the technology of IP!

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2011-10-10 09:15:31, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/gh7fvgbOEPQ/

Why IPv6 Will Change The Way You Game: An Interview With Geoff Huston

"the absence of NATs allows direct peer-to-peer communication, allowing concepts such as self-sustaining swarms of players who directly communicate with each other"
Complete info at games.on.net.

2011-10-10 00:41:19, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8085

Sipit, Annual SIP Forum to Take Place in Monte Carlo

A press release revealed that at this year?s SIPit 29, companies will have the opportunity to test multiple SIP-based applications in different network architectures. In attention, the forum will be demonstrating how crucial IPv6 interoperability is to the industry as the next generation Internet protocol continues to be introduced to the market. Participating companies will have the option to test and review SIP-related video and telepresence applications as well.
Complete info at TMCnet.

2011-10-10 00:34:35, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8084

Ovum: IPv6 transition ? why the rush?

The internet and telecoms industries have been promoting the migration to IPv6 for the past few years. IPv6-compliant addresses have been available since 1999, but 2011 has witnessed a strong push for the transition to IPv6 from the legacy IPv4 addressing scheme.
Complete info at ComputerWeekly.

2011-10-10 00:29:28, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8083

HP says networking vendors can't make money on IPv6

Yanick Pouffary, HP's IPv6 worldwide leader told The INQUIRER that most network firms can't expect to make a penny from new hardware sales. Pouffary pointed to the fact that IPv6 had been seen so far ahead by vendors that most users won't need to buy new hardware because current kit, regardless of vendor, most likely already supports IPv6.
Complete info at TheInquirer.

2011-10-10 00:26:16, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8082

A10 Boosts Application Delivery Controllers

A10 Networks is upgrading its application delivery controllers (ADC) with three new hardware platforms it says are faster and more energy efficient.
Complete info at CIO and ComputerWorld.

2011-10-10 00:23:53, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8081

Be Broadband planning network overhaul to prepare for IPv6

The project is set to start in early 2012 and will last for around half a year.
Complete info at Cable, broadbandwatcher and thinkbroadband.

2011-10-10 00:19:42, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8080

IPv6 gains momentum

INTERNET numbering authorities should soon have strong insights into how the world will cope with the transition to the new IPv6 online addressing scheme.
Complete info at The Australian.

2011-10-10 00:15:33, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8079

Who's who in IPv6: the companies and people leading the way

IPv6 is on the minds of every network professional these days, and rightly so. While some vendors and service providers are woefully behind, others are leading the charge.
Complete info at TechWorld, ComputerWorld and NetworkWorld.

2011-10-10 00:09:26, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8078

SCTE Creates IPv6 Working Group

The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers has formed a working group aimed at accelerating the planning for and deployment of IPv6 -- the next-generation Internet protocol -- across cable networks.
Copmplete info at MultichannelNews and Cable360.

2011-10-09 23:54:51, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8077