Broadband providers & router manufacturers failing to support IPv6

Thinkbroadband called 17 uk broadband service providers a few weeks ago to ask if they supported IPv6 and we were quite surprised by the results to this simple question Do you support IPv6?

Is that a TV channel?

I know quite a bit about computers but Ive never heard that before.

Read the full article here

2010-05-11 19:44:19, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ipv6news/~3/m-sPc6FXy1s/

A Black Market for IP Addresses?

Geeksaresexy.net has a very interesting article on the future of v4 space and the possibility of a black market where IPv4 could sell for rates far higher than estimated fee of $1,250 a year for 256 addresses.

Read at source

Source [ www.geeksaresexy.net ]

2010-05-11 19:31:08, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ipv6news/~3/zRfFHAL0VEY/

Two more

Two more IPv4 address blocks have been allocated (31 and 176). Both went to the European registry. 18 out of 256 blocks are left (7%). If you factor in the n=1 proposal, we're down to 5% free.

Hurry up and deploy IPv6, folks.

Here's what the IPv4 address space looks like now:

2010-05-11 13:32:05, Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/2010/05/two-more.html

Internet approaches addressing limit

In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks of net addresses to give out, estimates suggest.

Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which the last of those tranches is released for net firms and others to use.

More from BBC Online&

2010-05-11 09:06:08, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/q4O54647pmw/

Governments Need to Take the Lead in IPv6 Adoption

As the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses has dwindled to less than 7.8 per cent, national and local governments are urged to take the lead in adopting the next generation of IP addressing, IPv6, to protect the sustainable growth of the global Internet economy.

More from eGov Monitor&

2010-05-11 08:52:03, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/Ju2EvVLJonY/

Two more down

Yesterday IANA announced that they allocated 31/8 and 176/8 to RIPE NCC. LACNIC and APNIC will most likely allocate two blocks each soon. It looks like we only are going to have nine usable blocks after this summer.

More from The IPv4 Depletion Site&

2010-05-10 13:54:46, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/CQZhKHllpnU/

Two more downThe IPv4 Depletion site

Yesterday IANA announced that they allocated 31/8 and 176/8 to RIPE NCC. LACNIC and APNIC will most likely allocate two blocks each soon. It looks like we only are going to have 9 usable block after this summer. The total allocation rate from the RIRs to its members has been very high lately, around 1.3-1.4 /8 [...]

2010-05-10 13:45:55, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2010/05/08/two-more-down/http://ipv4depletion.com

new allocations brings IPv4 x-day forward by 5 months

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has just allocated regional registries RIPE and APNIC a /8 each this month.  For the uninitiated a /8 represents 2 to the power of 24 IP addresses or 167,77,216.

A /8 is the largest block allocation that can be made by IANA and these two have had the effect of bringing forward the x-date, the date for IPv4 exhaustion, by 5 months or so to April 30th 2011.

These blocks are subdivided into smaller subnets for further allocation to ISPs/organisations with smaller requirements  such as BT and Timico. Timico has a variety of block allocations ranging from  /16 to /20’s.

If you want to know more about IP addressing allocations check out wikipedia. The times they are a changing.

source [ trefor.net ]

2010-05-10 12:49:45, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ipv6news/~3/FoCmHY4EJDg/

Email 2.0: Trying to catch up with the web

Reports of the death of email greatly exaggerated.
Complete info at TheRegister.

2010-05-09 10:07:58, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6049

Comcast IPv6 Adoption Monitor

Site gives insight into IPv6 usage.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

2010-05-09 10:01:47, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6048