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• IPv6 guru predicts last-minute switch to protocol
  2007-12-17

  Remember the Greek myth about Sisyphus, who was cursed to roll a huge boulder up a steep hill and then watch it roll down again for eternity? The story brings to mind IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4.

• OMB to limit number of Internet connections for agencies
  2007-11-26

  The Office of Management and Budget wants to reduce the number of Internet connections across government to 50 by June. Under a new Trusted Internet Connections initiative, which OMB will kick off with a governmentwide meeting Nov. 30, agencies will have to develop a plan of action and milestones by Jan. 8 on how they will reduce the number of Internet connections.

• Verizon to complete IPv6 deployment by 2009
  2007-10-12

  Verizon to complete IPv6 deployment by 2009 Oct 12, 2007 Verizon Business expects to complete the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) on its public IP network worldwide in the next 18 months. The company, which began the rollout in 2004, said it will complete North America deployment in 2008 and move into Asia and Europe in late 2008 to 2009.

• IPv6 Upgrade
  2007-10-01

  Internet Protocol version 6 is here. The rollout of Windows Vista was a critical piece of the puzzle, paving the way for state and local agencies to adopt this next generation of Internet infrastructure. From a federal standpoint, the transition date mandated by the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense is quickly approaching. What’s more, the American Registry for Internet Numbers and Internet Engineering Task Force have both issued warnings for consumer adoption of IPv6 networks by 2011.

• EMC Unveils One of Market's First Network Management Solutions Supporting Native IPv6 Deployments
  2007-09-17

  EMC Corporation today announced the EMC Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager -- one of the market's first network management solutions supporting native IPv6 deployments. The software offers comprehensive network discovery, mapping, monitoring, and root-cause analysis for IPv6, IPv4 and mixed environments.

• Lockheed Martin Adopts IPv6
  2007-09-02

  U.S. government contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. has begun to move part of its network to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) as a way of showing customers how to make the transition, the company said.

• IPv6 Passes First Test on Applications
  2007-08-27

  In the first large-scale test of basic enterprise networking with IPv6, applications using the next-generation IP in real-world conditions passed muster. Until recently, most of the attention on IPv6 has concentrated on the network backbone, but this summer’s tests at the University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Laboratory (IOL) focused instead on applications.

• Govt Expects Users to Migrate to IPv6 in 3 Years
  2007-08-24

  The government of India is proactively pushing for users of the Internet space to migrate towards the Internet Protocol Version 6.

• IPv6 Readiness is Key as IPv4 Peters Out
  2007-08-21

  IPv6 is nothing new. The warning signs have been there for years, and the U.S. government has been under a strict deadline to cut over to IPv6 by next year. But still, most U.S. enterprises are dragging their feet when it comes to embracing the new Internet protocol. They worry about compatibility issues, costs and overall challenges when switching over from the familiar IPv4 to the new and sometimes intimidating IPv6.

• China's IT Olympic Lineup
  2007-08-16

  A mix of new wireless technologies, homegrown and foreign, will play a critical role in assuring a successful Beijing Games

• IT Execs Ask: What Can IPv6 Do For Me?
  2007-08-14

  Preparations to install IPv6 on government backbone networks are in full swing, but who's asking, "How can IPv6 improve government services?"

• FAQ: What You Need To Know About IPv6
  2007-08-06

  Vendors and government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes, and researchers find that network administrators are unprepared for the new protocol. Here's more on what you need to know about IPv6.

• Cruising the Internet at 70 MPH
  2007-07-09

  Soon you'll be able to surf the Web, download music, and check e-mail in your car.

• The Declaration of IPv6 Independence
  2007-07-04

  “Somewhere in the 2020s, a decade after the last IPv4 address has been used up, computer science students are going to learn about the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 as an example of either the best or the worst system upgrade in the world's history of system upgrades. We know it will be the greatest system upgrade either way: hundreds of millions—if not more than a billion—systems will have had to be updated in some way.”

• Get a Comprehensive Reference on Understanding, Designing, and Implementing IP Mobility
  2007-07-03

  “This authoritative reference provides readers with a thorough understanding of IP Mobility using Mobile IPv6 and companion advanced mobility protocols including network mobility and fast handovers. It illustrates basic concepts and principles behind the IP Mobility architecture and covers the practices using detailed protocol description. Of particular importance is how mobile networking will support billions of devices without restricting applications or overburdening network infrastructures, and how it will support the movement of users from network to network without compromising security.”

• Agencies, start your protocols!
  2007-07-02

  “By this time next year, all federal agencies must have their networks running Version 6 of the Internet Protocol. Some will meet the deadline, some won’t.”

• Bitten by IPv6
  2007-06-25

  Government Computer News has “been getting comments about a story that appeared in GCN a few months ago on how many addresses are actually available with IPv6. In a Feb. 5, 2007, article — “DOD to allocate its IPv6 addresses” — [they] mentioned that the Defense Department has acquired a /16 Block address, which [they] estimated to provide 247 billion IP addresses. Several readers have pointed out that number is wrong, wrong, wrong! It is far too low. And, in fact, even if [they] had gotten it right, the number would be pointless.”

• Getting ready for IPv6? It’s already here
  2007-06-18

  “As agencies work to transition their network backbones to Internet Protocol Version 6 by June 2008, an interesting bit of information has surfaced to remind us that IPv6 already is here.”

• The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
  2007-06-15

  “The exhaustion of the remaining pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses is approaching within the next few years and this may create some problems for the Internet, unless we make some smart choices. These decisions need to be planned well in advance if we want to ensure that the changes are as trouble-free, painless and inexpensive as possible. This paper analyzes the situation and classifies the potential mitigations for the IPv4 exhaustion problem into two basic categories: Temporary and Permanent mitigations.

• Global IPv6 Summit in Korea
  2007-06-14 through 2007-06-17

  The Global IPv6 Summit in Korea 2007 sponsored by MIC (The Ministry of Information and Communication), IPv6 Forum Korea and IPv6 Forum International will be held on June 14~15 at the COEX in Seoul, Korea.

• New “GIG” Becomes More of A Reality
  2007-06-07

  “The Global Information Grid (GIG), an open-yet-secure mega-Internet in which all soldiers may have their own IPv6 address, is moving from the concept phase and into the hardware/software development phase.”

• GSA taps AT&T, Level 3, MCI, Qwest and Sprint for Networx Enterprise
  2007-06-05

  “The General Services Administration today awarded the second of its two multi-year, multibillion-dollar Networx telecommunications services contracts, dividing the Networx Enterprise portion among AT&T, Level 3 Communications, MCI Communications Services (doing business as Verizon Business Services), Qwest Government Services and Sprint Solutions.”

• IPv6 Could be a Boost for Access Control
  2007-06-04

  Government agencies should consider taking more of an enterprise approach to both access control and configuration management. The motivator behind this is the required migration to IPv6 from IPv4. In anticipation of this transition toward enterprise security, there are certain measures that the author recommends in carrying this out.

• Money: Following Protocol - US News and World Report
  2007-05-24

  IPv6 may not be high on your list of business priorities, but it's high time for ... "The value of IPv6 is that you will be able to communicate with [and] establish ...

• The Impending Internet Address Shortage
  2007-05-22

  Sometime in the next 6 years, the Internet will run out of space. Expediting the migration to IPv6 is the solution to the impending crisis, says ARIN.

  The coming shortage of Internet Protocol addresses on Monday prompted the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) to call for a faster migration to the new Internet Protocol, IPv6.

• ARIN Board Advises Internet Community on Migration to IPv6
  2007-05-22

  On 7 May 2007, the ARIN Board of Trustees passed a resolution advising the Internet technical community that migration to a new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, will be necessary to allow continued growth of the Internet.

  Internet Protocol defines how computers communicate over a network. IP version 4 (IPv4), the currently prevalent version, contains just over four billion unique IP addresses, which is not enough to last indefinitely. IPv6 is a replacement for IPv4, offering far more IP addresses and enhanced security features. To date, ARIN has performed technical coordination of both versions and has not advocated one over the other.

• IPv6 for Small Business Arrives
  2007-05-18

  IPv6 is the answer to the finite nature of the current IPv4 address space. Many small business and home offices feel have felt that adopting v6 protocol was primarily for “the big guys” of government and big business. Not so says Hexago, a 20-person startup focused on interoperability between v4 and v6 for the small business or home office...

• IPv6 – Ready for Prime Time? Part V: IPv4-to-IPv6 Transition Tech
  2007-05-18

  As transition strategies have led to transition technologies, new challenges have been identified in the process. The most immediate challenge will be supporting v6 packets over v4 networks. The Dual Stack approach seeks to mitigate this in a straightforward fashion while the Configured Tunneling approach provides a way for IPv4 infrastructure to remain intact and transmit both v4 and v6 while v6 infrastructure is under development...

• Transition Leader
  2007-05-08

  Peter Tseronis, director of network services at the Education Department, is acutely aware of the Office of Management and Budget's order for agencies to transition to the new IPv6 networking protocols.

  "We're down to a year and two months to the OMB deadline," he said recently. But Tseronis, who is overseeing Education's transition, sees that mandate as an opportunity rather than a chore. And his efforts aren't limited to Education.

• Four agencies' e-gov scores drop
  2007-05-02

  Four agencies saw their e-government scores on the President's Management Agenda score card drop to red after having problems with their enterprise architectures.

  "Agencies were assessed based on their use of the enterprise architectures to maximize efficiency of cross-agency initiatives, implement IPv6, realize efficiencies and improve program performance," Johnson said.

• Agencies activate IWN plan
  2007-05-02

  Three arms of federal law enforcement are planning, at last, to catch up with Dick Tracy. The Justice, Homeland Security and Treasury departments, each with multiple law enforcement wireless systems, have launched a 15-year, standards-based project to build a nationwide interoperable federal law enforcement network.

• Streaming21 Launches Media Server 6.0 for Next Generation IPTV Services
  2007-04-25

  “Streaming21, the world leader in broadcast-quality streaming solutions, today announced its award-winning media-on-demand solution, Media Server 6.0, which provides a full suite of functionality for delivering carrier-class streaming services over IP networks. The new platform adds many industry-leading features that support H.264 and IPv6 video streaming with highly scaleable video delivery”...

• Researchers break Internet speed records
  2007-04-25

  A group of researchers led by the University of Tokyo has broken Internet speed records - twice in two days. Operators of the high-speed Internet2 network announced Tuesday that the researchers on Dec. 30 sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second, using standard communications protocols.

  The next day, using modified protocols, the team broke the record again by sending data over the same 20,000-mile path at 9.08 Gbps.

• Call for Papers: Research and Deployment Possibilities based on MIPv6
  2007-04-24

  This workshop is being organized by the ENABLE project in collaboration Daidalos.

  The goal is to provide researchers, engineers and IT managers with a concentrated day on the state of the art technologies on mobility along with their security and applicability aspects.

  The workshop will provide to the participants a comprehensive knowledge of mobility technologies and their respective benefits. It will focus in particular on the recent developments and open issues of mobile networking, its evolution to beyond 3G/4G and advanced mobile network services. The workshop will be a complete day workshop organized in three sessions, that will be based on both, invited and solicited papers. Two sessions will consist of 3 paper presentations plus one keynote speaker and the third one will consist of 2 papers plus a final panel session from researchers and industry addressing the state-of-the-art technologies and hot topics in the area of mobility.

  All accepted papers will be presented and discussed. The final accepted papers will be published in a booklet being edited by the ENABLE project.

• Biggest threat to Internet could be a massive virtual blackout
  2007-04-06

  The most serious threat to the Internet infrastructure in the 21st century is a massive virtual blackout known as a "distributed denial of service attack," an outspoken board member for the group that administers Internet addresses said Thursday at a Hudson Institute briefing.

  his type of high-tech ambush, which occurs when multiple compromised systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted server to make Web pages unavailable, could be devastating for global online communication, said Susan Crawford of the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers.

• IPv6: Don't get left on the platform
  2007-04-03

  Agencies may face brain drain if they delay transition.

  Federal agencies that dawdle during the IPv6 transition risk losing tech-savvy system administrators who will defect to organizations with fresher technology, advocates for the Web upgrade say.

• Accommodating IPv6 Address RRs for the Root of the Domain Name System
  2007-03-28

  ICANN SSAC and RRSAC recommend that type AAAA records for all root name servers so addressed should be included in the root hints and root zone files and that they be returned in priming responses from root name servers as soon as practically possible.

  The committees jointly conclude that the most expedient way to proceed is for ICANN, IANA and the root name server operators to coordinate a phased deployment.

• ICANN's 28th International Meeting Opens in Lisbon, Portugal
  2007-03-27

  ICANN's 28th International meeting opened yesterday in Lisbon, Portugal. It will see important developments in the organization's mission of global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers. Attendees and on-line participants will take part in more than 30 sessions and workshops. It constitutes an essential part of ICANN's global consensus-development and outreach efforts.

• IPv6: What's In It for You?
  2007-03-26

  A look at the enhanced capabilities built into IPv6 networks.

• ASO Candidates for ICANN Board Announced: Call for comments on nominees to ICANN Board
  2007-03-25

  Following a public nomination period, the ASO Address Council (ASO AC) selected the final set of candidates to fill the ASO seat on the ICANN Board currently held by Raimundo Beca, whose term expires in June 2007. The candidates are:

  Al-Din J. Kadhem Al-Radhi, Smain Aouissi, Raimundo Beca, Vikram Gupta, Jordi Palet Martinez, Remco Van Mook, Shahmeet Singh, and Kuo-Wei Wu

  In May 2007, the ASO AC will make its final selection to appoint one of these individuals to fill the ASO Board seat. To aid them in making their final selection, the ASO AC members request your comments and statements of support for these candidates. A public comment period will be open until 18:00 UTC on 20 April 2007.

• Ministry Of Energy, Water & Communications To Adopt IPv6 By April
  2007-03-15

  Malaysia is scheduled to migrate to the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) by next month, with the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications taking the lead to adopt the technology.

  Director of National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAV6), Universiti Sains Malaysia Associate Professor Dr Sureswaran Ramadas said the IPv6 network would place Malaysia in a position of strength in terms of the new Internet technology.

• Worldwide Interoperability on VoIP using IPv6
  2007-03-08

  The IPv6 Forum, along with Viagenie, Stealth Communications and CounterPath Solutions, today announced that a series of successful VoIP calls over IPv6 has been carried out, marking an important advancement in worldwide interoperability among VoIP technologies using IPv6.

  The VoIP calls, connecting Viagenie in Canada and Consulintel in Spain, were conducted using the CounterPath eyeBeam softphone through the IPv6 version of Asterisk, ported by Viagenie, a consulting and R&D firm in advanced IP networking. The Asterisk-IPv6 server was located on Stealth Communications' Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) network.