IPv6: Top 10 tips for CIOs

In this guest blog published exclusively on CBR, Nicolas Fischbach, director network strategy and architecture, Colt, offers some hints and tips for CIOs worried about IPv6 migration.
Complete info at CBR.

2011-06-12 22:51:23, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7708

Industry Upbeat About IPv6 Day Despite Low Traffic Volume

It's been billed by its organizers as the most important day for the future of the Internet, but so far World IPv6 Day has probably served to confirm what the industry already knows about the 128-bit protocol on which the 21st century digital society will be built -- there is not a lot of it about.
Complete info at CIO, ITWorld and ComputerWorld.

2011-06-12 22:50:11, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7707

World IPv6 Day Starts Around the Globe Without a Hitch

After months of preparation and anticipation, World IPv6 kicked off fairly quietly at Midnight London time on June 8 as companies begin the first global IPv6 experiment.
Complete info at eWeek.

2011-06-12 22:47:11, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7706

IPv6 traffic surges at launch of World IPv6 Day

Early data shows doubling of IPv6 traffic, although 'not a super dramatic increase'.
Complete info at NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld and CSO.

2011-06-12 22:46:11, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7705

World IPv6 Day: Time to packet in?

Around 35 years ago, Vint Cerf at and Bob Kahn at Arpa were designing a set of networking standards that were to become TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the underlying communications protocol of the internet.
Complete info at ZDNet.

2011-06-12 22:37:34, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7704

World IPv6 Day: Tech industry's most-watched event since Y2K

The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats tonight for the start of World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in 1999.
Complete info at ComputerWorld, PC Advisor and CSO.

2011-06-12 22:35:46, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7703

World IPv6 Day a Success, Demonstrated Global Readiness for IPv6, Says ISOCIPv6 News

Top websites and Internet service providers around the world, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai, and Limelight Networks, joined together with more than 1000 other participating websites in World IPv6 Day for a successful global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6, reports Internet Society (ISOC) in its day after news release on World IPv6 Day held on Wednesday, Jun 8.

ISOC reports:

During World IPv6 Day organized by the Internet Society, nearly 400 participating organizations enabled IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours on 8 June. & A key goal of World IPv6 Day was to expose potential issues with real-world IPv6 use under controlled conditions. Given the diversity of technology that powers the Internet, the global nature of the trial was crucial to identify unforeseen problems. The vast majority of users were able to access services as usual, but in rare cases, users experienced impaired access to participating websites during the trial.

A number of organizations were busy collecting data closely monitoring yesterdays event. Rob Malan of Arbor Network writes:

After reflecting on the data from IPv6 day, the phrase the best comes to mind is: Wagons Ho! Its going to be a long hard slog to IPv6-Land. Yesterdays IPv6 flag day looks to have been a success. After a decade of implementation work by the infrastructure vendors in building towards IPv4 functional parity, combined with the months of preparation by the content and service providers in constructing the routing and namespace frameworks, IPv6 day came off successfully. For a 24 hour period starting at midnight UTC, anyone with IPv6 access connectivity could get to some of the largest content providers data through their v6 stacks. With six of our customers help, we were able to get a glimpse into some of the details of the day.

Donn Lee of Facebook reports:

We saw over 1 million users reach us over IPv6. Were pleased that we did not see any increase in the number of users seeking help from our Help Center. The estimated 0.03% of users who may have been affected would have experienced slow page loads during the test. Based on the encouraging results, weve decided to leave our Developer site dual-stacked, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6. And we will continue to adapt our entire code base and tools to support IPv6.

2011-06-11 07:49:19, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2011/06/09/world-ipv6-day-a-success-demonstrated-global-readiness-for-ipv6-says-isoc-8/http://www.ipv6news.info

IPv6: What the experts say

As reported elsewhere on CBR today is World IPv6 Day, when tech companies across the globe unite to raise awareness of the transition to IPv6 as we rapidly approach the end of IPv4.
Complete info at CBR.

2011-06-11 00:19:30, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7702

GoGrid Enables Compuware to Provide Industry's First Free IPv6 Website Performance Comparison Test

In recognition of World IPv6 Day, GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that Compuware Corporation is using its cloud infrastructure to run the industry's first free IPv6 Website Performance Comparison Test.
Complete info at Benzinga, GlobeNewswire and TradersHuddle.

2011-06-11 00:09:03, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7701

IPv6 Support, Enhanced Anti-Logger and Hacking Protection Added to Privacyware PC Security Offering

Privacyware releases update of Privatefirewall, the leading free security product for Windows PCs. The new software features full support for IPv6 and enhanced protection against critical hacking, privacy and identity theft threats.
Complete info at Benzinga.

2011-06-11 00:03:25, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=7700