February 7, 2012 archive

Feb 07

IP Best Current Operational Practices (IPBCOP) Project Launches New Website

Are you looking for “best practices” within the operations community?  If so, our friends over at the IP Best Current Operational Practices (IPBCOP) effort have just launched a new website to help make their information more accessible and available. The IPBCOP project, led by Aaron Hughes and Richard Donaldson, emerged out of a series of operator meetings such as NANOG where it became clear that a need existed to collect operational best practices within the operator community and capture those in a series of documents and templates that others can use.

The project has been working via a mailing list for the past while and currently has three drafts under active consideration:

More drafts are in development and a BCOP template is available for those interested in submitting their own best practices document for consideration.  The IPBCOP project is very much a community effort and all communication really happens through their mailing list, which is open for anyone interested to join.  You can also connect with IPBCOP on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

We think this is a great effort that will only help the operations community move forward with technologies like IPv6 and we encourage you all to check it out and if possible get involved!

Feb 07

Free Light Reading Webinar Feb 8th: Making the IPv6 Transition For Cable

If you have 90 minutes to spare tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8, 2012, the folks over at Light Reading are offering a free (see below) webinar at 1:00 pm US Eastern on the topic of “Making the IPv6 Transition For Cable“.  It is sponsored by Arris, Cisco, Juniper Networks and Motorola, and more importantly has an expert panel of people from the cable industry:

  • John Brzozowski, Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect for IPv6, Comcast
  • Jeff Finkelstein, Senior Director, Network Architecture, Cox Communications
  • Lee Howard, Director of Network Technology, Time Warner Cable

Given that we know these folks ourselves, we expect their contributions to the webinar to provide solid information and case studies for other cable operators and service providers.  The webinar will also apparently include presenters from the various sponsors who will probably provide their perspective on how their various products and services can help with the IPv6 transition.

Due note that this webinar is “free” in the sense that there is no direct financial cost. As is typical of these type of sponsored webinars, you do, of course, need to provide information about yourself that will then be provided to the sponsors for their marketing efforts.

Regardless of that fact, I expect that there will be some quite useful IPv6 information available during the session and I’ll be personally joining in for at least the first hour of the session. I expect, although don’t know for certain, that there will be a recording available for later viewing (subject, again, to providing all your contact information).

It’s great to see these kind of sessions out there as we get closer and closer to World IPv6 Launch on June 6th!

The folks at Light Reading also produced a brief video providing a preview of some of the topics and people involved with tomorrow’s webinar:

P.S. Hat tip to Stephen Liu over on Cisco’s blog where we saw mention of this webinar.

Feb 07

Government Computer News – Thanks for the Deploy360 Mention!

GovernmentcomputernewsVery nice to see the mention of Deploy360 in the Government Computer News “CyberEye” column: Internet Society launches info hub for DNSSEC, IPv6. Many thanks for the mention! The US Government has been pushing hard on both IPv6 and DNSSEC and we’ve got some statistics on our site about US government DNSSEC and IPv6 adoption. We’ve also got some more sites that we’ll be adding to our list of resources that are specifically government-related. We’re very much looking forward to doing all we can to help government IT professionals from the US and from governments all around the world.

If you are a government IT professional, please do look around our site and see if the resources we have here can help you. And if you still need answers to questions, please let us know and we’ll be glad to help!