May 11, 2012 archive

May 11

New Infographic on IPv6-Enabled Sites in Top 1 Million Alexa sites

How many of the top 1 million websites (according to Alexa) are using IPv6? Hackertarget.com, a provider of online security scanning services, released an infographic summarizing their research. As they say on their page:

Analysis of IPv6 enabled sites was conducted in March 2012. We have analysed the Alexa Top 1 Million sites and looked for the presence of AAAA DNS records indicating an IPv6 enabled site.

Once determined we then looked at the hosting locations, net block owners, web servers and operating systems in use. The following infographic summarises the results from the analysis.

I found a number of interesting points through the stats, such as the higher percentage of German websites with IPv6. In looking at the list of “number of IPv6 enabled site by netblock owner”, I found it interesting that the top 4 (on the bottom of the chart) seem to be two German hosting providers, a Russian hosting provider and then the Cloudflare content delivery network (CDN) – demonstrating, to me, the value of getting hosting providers and CDNs to deploy IPv6 connectivity.

It’s good that Hackertarget.com conducted this survey in March 2012 prior to World IPv6 Launch on June 6 and it would be great if they do this a month or two after World IPv6 Launch so that we could see a comparison.  We do know, for instance, that the number of sites in the Alexa top 1 million with IPv6-enabled corporate web sites will expand from the four listed here, purely based on the number of sites already signed up to participate in World IPv6 Launch.

Kudos to the Hackertarget.com team for putting this together… (and you can see the larger version by clicking on the image).

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May 11

Spelling Counts In Infographics!

Spelling counts! Always! Even in trendy things like "infographics"... you need to always check, check and re-check to make sure that things are spelled correctly[1].

Always.

Period. Full stop.

This morning brought a perfect illustration of this... a friend on Twitter pointed to an infographic about VoIP and telecom trends, another topic I'm interested in. I would have gladly retweeted the infographic - and would have perhaps embedded it in a blog post.

Except for one minor little detail in the headline:

Spelling counts

Oops. :-(

The problem is that misspelling "Telecom" as "Telecome" immediately makes the entire graphic suspect to me. If this is the level of error-checking they had in the graphic, what does this mean about their data?

Now granted, the data might be perfectly fine and this was just a case of someone not proofreading the headline... but it immediately makes me wonder... and makes me NOT want to retweet it or otherwise pass it along.

That includes not wanting to embed the graphic in a blog post... because I don't want typos on MY site!

And so one spelling error in the headline causes the creator of the infographic to lose the small bit of additional publicity I would have given it... and perhaps others will have the same reaction resulting in a larger loss.

Spelling always counts!

Always!

P.S. And no, I have not linked to the infographic in question from this post as I'd like to give them a chance to correct it... and I did send them a tweet about the typo, too.

[1] Unless, of course, the spelling mistakes are deliberate to illustrate a point or are part of a character in a story, etc.

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May 11

Video: What is the role of the IETF? How does it help the Internet and open standards?

What does the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) do? What role does it play in setting Internet standards?

As readers are probably aware, I've been a long-time supporter and advocate of the IETF's work on open standards, writing about it both here on Disruptive Telephony and previously quite extensively over on Voxeo's Speaking of Standards blog. In my new role with the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme, of course, I'm even more directly involved and am now regularly attending IETF meetings.

For those who aren't familiar with the IETF, I recently came across this great video that explains the basics of what the IETF does:

The IETF is a great organization that is truly open to anyone to get involved. All you need to do is sign up for one of the mailing lists for one of the working groups and start reading and then participating. You can also attend one of the face-to-face IETF meetings to get even more involved.

Anyway, if you're not familiar with the IETF, do check out this video as it is a great intro!

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