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FRANCE-IX: The Ultimate Internet Exchange Point in Paris

Until now, Paris was a divided peering place. France-IX intends to solve this issue by developing an infrastructure of its own and gathering the existing Parisian IXPs so it attracts both national and international exchanges.
Complete info at Sys-Con, EarthTimes and NewsBlaze.

2010-06-24 07:39:25, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6210

I root server doing IPv6Living with IPv6

Last week, the I root DNS server turned on IPv6. Currently, it's only enabled at the Stockholm node. Here's a Google Map showing locations of IPv6-enable DNS root servers. Global nodes are in red; local nodes in blue: View Larger Map Almost all of t...

2010-06-24 05:36:53, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2010/06/23/i-root-server-doing-ipv6/http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/

Irish IPv6 Summit 2010 Videos available

Five days ago the videos where posted from the Irish IPv6 Summit 2010 which was held on 19th May. Its nice to see that some IPv6 Task Forces are making IPv6 information accessible to the masses, like hosting summits and making the videos publicly available.

2010-06-23 12:31:04, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2010/06/23/irish-ipv6-summit-2010-videos-available/

I root server doing IPv6

Last week, the I root DNS server turned on IPv6. Currently, it's only enabled at the Stockholm node.

Here's a Google Map showing locations of IPv6-enable DNS root servers. Global nodes are in red; local nodes in blue:

View Larger Map

Almost all of the DNS roots now have at least some of their nodes IPv6-enabled. Unfortunately, they see very little traffic over IPv6. The H root, for example, sees only about 3% of their traffic over IPv6. This is an improvement over 2008, but it's still depressing.

2010-06-23 11:12:34, Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/2010/06/i-root-server-doing-ipv6.html

APNIC says ISPs need to treat IPv6 seriously

Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre chief scientist Geoff Huston has sought to put in perspective reports that available IPv4 addresses could be exhausted in six months– but says that ISPs must nevertheless begin migration plans immediately.

IPv4 addresses are doled out from a rapidly dwindling pool by the Internet Assigned Number Authority to Regional Internet Registries such as APNIC, which then allocate them within their respective regions. While previous estimates have suggested that the global pool could be exhausted around the middle of next year, American Registry for Internet Numbers CIO Richard Jimmerson has warned that the rapid pace of address uptake has made it hard for calculations to stay current, sparking reports that IPv4 addresses could be gone by year’s end.

SMC Networks launches 28-port GbE TigerSwitch

Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 22 June 2010 at 15:55:00

Switch offers IPv6 management and green Ethernet compatibility

SMC Networks has launched what it claims is the first 28-port Gigabit Ethernet Layer 2 switch to combine IPv6 capabilities with green Ethernet compatibility....

2010-06-22 15:55:00, Source: http://feeds.v3.co.uk/c/554/f/464337/s/b55365e/l/0L0Sv30O0Cv30Cnews0C22652540Csmc0Enetworks0Elaunch0Etigerswitch/story01.htm

IPv6 on iPhoneLiving with IPv6

It's here. It looks like Apple removed any way to turn off IPv6. I've only been poking around the settings for a few minutes, but I don't see a way to disable it. Not sure if that's good or bad. Apple had more to say about IPv6 support in iOS (that's...

2010-06-22 07:20:03, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2010/06/22/ipv6-on-iphone/http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/

IPv6 on iPhone

It's here.

It looks like Apple removed any way to turn off IPv6. I've only been poking around the settings for a few minutes, but I don't see a way to disable it. Not sure if that's good or bad.

Apple had more to say about IPv6 support in iOS (that's still weird to type) at their WWDC 2010 conference. The Core Networking talk had an update on IPv6; Video (HD) and Slides (PDF) are available. They encouraged developers to make their apps IPv6-clean. I wonder if Apple will start rejecting IPv4-only apps from their App Store?

They claim to support stateless DHCPv6, but I haven't yet tested this. When I get some more time, I'll test it in an IPv6-only network.

2010-06-21 17:48:01, Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/2010/06/ipv6-on-iphone.html

It’s time to implement IPv6, IPv4 running out of addresses

As the remaining pool of IPv4 addresses dwindles (only 623 million are left!), it turns out that the remaining address space isn’t exactly beachfront property. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) currently has 16 blocks of 16.8 million IPv4 addresses left—out of a total of 221 usable such blocks.

Internet “judgment day” is looming. Are you ready?

We have 17 more months until what John Curran, CEO and president at ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers), calls, Judgement Day. Thats when were expected to run out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses.

What this means for vendors and partners in the IT community is that theyll need to ensure that end-user customers can interact and communicate with the entire Internet, which will be built around the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) standard because were rapidly running out of IP addresses, the unique numeric identifiers that computers use to talk to each other and connect to the Internet.