February 22, 2012 archive

Feb 22

IPv6 Statistics – Lars Eggert’s IPv6 Deployment Trends

Lars Eggert tracks deployment trends for IPv6, DNSSEC, SIP, XMPP and a few other protocols at:

http://eggert.org/meter/ipv6.html

In his “experiment,” Lars is tracking the top 500 sites from Alexa.com both overall and for individual countries, and then performing a variety of tests on them to determine IPv6 accessibility.  As he writes (our emphasis):

This experiment attempts to answer the following question: If an average user had a working installation of IPv6 on their machine, how useful would it be to them? What percentage of the services and sites the average user regularly accesses are IPv6-enabled? In other words, the experiment attempts to quantify the usefulness of IPv6 to the average end user, given the current deployment of IPv6 in the Internet.

The experiment does not track how many users or hosts use IPv6 in the current Internet. It also does not track how many sites have configurations of IPv6 that are not accessible by average users from the Internet.

If you go on down the page, Lars includes some interesting IPv6 trend data going back to when he started collecting the data in October 2007.  Lars also includes statistics on DNSSEC deployment as well as that of a few other protocols.

Lars Eggert IPv6 Deployment Trends

Feb 22

LACNIC Report On Success of IPv6 Week

LACNIC LogoHow did IPv6 Week (Feb 6-12) turn out in Latin America and the Caribbean?

The folks over at LACNIC recently posted a note indicating that over 200 websites participated in the IPv6 Week activities.  LACNIC also organized two webinars and presented at the Campus Party Brasil event that week.  They still have an IPv6 Week contest going on through March 1 that will see someone taking home a new iPad 2 and someone attending the next LACNIC event.

As we get ever closer to World IPv6 Launch, it’s great to see activities like this going on and we definitely congratulate LACNIC and all the associated groups and organizations for their successful event!

Feb 22

CIRA / .CA Launches DNSSEC Info Center and Draft DNSSEC Practice Statement

CIRAlogoDNSSEC is coming soon to the .CA domain! The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) recently announced a draft of their “DNSSEC Practice Statement” (DPS) that provides details around how they will be deploying and managing DNSSEC for the .CA domain. They are seeking comment on the DPS – and are also launching a “DNSSEC Knowledge Center” at:

http://cira.ca/knowledge-centre/technology/dnssec

The draft DPS is available on that site as is a useful DNSSEC FAQ.

All of this is in preparation for CIRA’s plans to sign the .CA zone in 2012 and to start signing .CA second-level domains in 2013.

It’s great to see this step from CIRA and we encourage all those interested to take a look at their DPS and send in any comments you may have.

If you are interested in learning more about CIRA’s activities, Jacques Latour spoke at our Toronto ION event in November and we published the video where he spoke about what CIRA is doing with both IPv6 and DNSSEC:

Feb 22

World IPv6 Launch

06/06/2012
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Feb 22

Storify Rolls Out New iPad App That Makes It Super Easy To Curate Twitter, Facebook

StorifylogoWhile I've not yet personally used Storify to a great degree, I've been watching what friends have been doing with it and been intrigued by the possibilities. Beyond the "collecting a twitter stream into a story" usage that people commonly discuss - and that is incredibly useful, I've been watching what, for instance, Shel Holtz has been doing to curate websites into ongoing collections. For example, his "Every company is a media company" or his "collection of social media policies".

I may, though, start using Storify a bit more now that they've rolled out an iPad application. Given that the Storify app is free in the iOS App Store, I downloaded it and started playing with it this morning. It's a wonderful example of how the touch interface of a tablet can be such a joy to work with. It's so very simple and natural to drag and drop tweets, photos, etc. to create new stories. Definitely something I'm going to look at using more when I have stories or topics I want to curate into a larger "story" for publishing out to the web.

If you have an iPad, you can download the Storify app and try it out yourself... and if you don't, you can watch the video that shows how it works:

Very cool to see how application designers are continuing to evolve our user interfaces... looking forward to seeing how this all continues...