May 16, 2014 archive

Webinar on May 22: IPv6 and Telecom – What’s Next?

US Telecom logoWant to understand the impact of IPv6 on telecommunications and Voice-over-IP (VoIP)? Interested to learn more about what telecom systems support IPv6? Would you like to know what efforts are underway within organizations like the IETF and the SIP Forum to ensure that telecommunications can work over IPv6?

If so, you can join in a free webinar offered by US Telecom on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 1:00pm US Eastern time. (17:00 UTC). The title of the session is “IPv6 and Telecom: IPv4 Is Finally Running Out. Now What?” and part of the abstract is:

As we approach the second anniversary of World IPv6 Launch on June 6, the word from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is that they are entering into their final stages of providing IPv4 addresses to service providers.  While this has been talked about for many years, the reality is finally here.  There will soon be no more new IPv4 addresses available for new networks and services.  What can be done? What are some of the mitigation strategies and what are their challenges? What is involved with moving to using telecommunications over IPv6? Viewers of this event will hear answers to these questions and more!

I’m very much looking forward to this session that combines two of my personal passions: IPv6 and IP telephony/communications.  This webinar is part of US Telecom’s ongoing education events.  Registration is free and open to all interested.  I understand the presentation will be recorded if you are unable to view it live.

Congrats on 25 Years of RIPE Meetings – And We’ll Be Promoting Videos From RIPE68

ripe-25-anniversaryAs the RIPE 68 meeting has drawn to a close in Warsaw, Poland, we would just like to take a moment to join with our CEO and many others in congratulating the RIPE community on their 25th anniversary.  Over these past 25 years the RIPE community has done an amazing amount of work together to create a stronger and better Internet.  On a global level, we are all collectively so much better off because of all the work that has happened within the RIPE community. Do check out their “25 Years of RIPE Timeline” to learn more.

We heard from Chris Grundemann and Jan Žorž that the 25th anniversary celebration on Tuesday evening was a great event – and both of them have raved about what an excellent – and exhausting – week this has been for them. As we wrote about last week, they’ve had an extremely busy week with a great amount of activity on IPv6, DNSSEC, securing BGP and our BCOP and  Operators and the IETF projects. Outside of that, Jan is also a member of the RIPE Program Committee (and was chosen again for that role) and so he was super-busy with helping with general organizational issues.  Our colleague Andrei Robachevsky was also there being very active on issues around routing resiliency and some of the great work happening there.

One of the great things about the RIPE meetings is how quickly they make the videos and presentations available for viewing.  There were some outstanding presentations at this RIPE 68 meeting in Warsaw, and so we’ll be highlighting and promoting some of the sessions that we found most valuable and interesting.  We’ve already started this yesterday with a post about Chris’ presentation about operators and the IETF, but we’ll be doing more of that over the next few weeks.

Congrats again to the RIPE community on their 25th anniversary - and we look forward to seeing all that will happen over the next 25 years!