May 18, 2012 archive

Friday IPv6 Meme Image: IPv6 On All The Things!

It’s late on a Friday afternoon… we’re all a little silly and ready for an insanely busy work week to wind down… so a colleague goes to memegenerator.net and in a minute or two passes around an image:

IPv6 On All The Things

We laughed… and a few others were admittedly created.  :-)

And then we got to thinking… in the midst of all this serious promotion we’re doing for World IPv6 Launch, why not have a little fun with it?  So we thought we’d ask you all:

SEND US YOUR IPv6 MEMES!

I’m sure with all the creative potential out there – and the many different meme image generation sites – surely you all can come up with some better or more creative ones than we have!

Please send them to us at deploy360@isoc.org – or leave links as comments to this post – and what we’ll do is run the best submissions we see on the next couple of Fridays before the big Launch.  We ask only two things:

  • Please include “www.worldipv6launch.org” somewhere on the image.
  • Please don’t use profanity.

Well… feel free to to send us ones with profanity if you want to make us smile, but given that we try to keep this site “Safe For Work” we probably won’t be publishing any of those ;-)

So please… send us your kittens!  Send us your LOLcats!  Send us your very serious person images… or whatever else.

Let’s have a little bit of fun with this, eh?

P.S. And feel free to pass along the image we have here, too :-)

 

Deploy360 To Present On Accelerating DNSSEC Deployment at ENOG3 in Odessa, Ukraine, Next Week

ENOG LogoWill you be at the third meeting of the Eurasia Network Operators Group (ENOG) on May 22-23, 2012, in Odessa, Ukraine?

If so, you’ll get to hear me (Dan York) speaking about “Key Steps to Accelerating DNSSEC Deployment“.  The abstract of my session is:

Everyone wants a more secure Internet and DNSSEC provides a level of additional security that allows a web browser to make sure the DNS information is correct and unmodified. So why is it taking so long to get DNSSEC deployed?

What needs to be done to get more domains signed with DNSSEC? How can DNSSEC validation be built into more applications? Are there technical issues or are the issues more of communication and awareness? How can we as a community address these challenges to increase the usage and availability of DNSSEC?

In this session, Dan York will explain some key deployment challenges and offer suggestions for how to overcome them, including more education for consumers, businesses, developers and network operators, and steps registrars can take to make the process of signing domains easier for the end-user. In addition, Dan will facilitate an audience discussion on what other resources are needed to help move the DNSSEC deployment needle.

Over 80 top-level domains (TLDs) and thousands of second- and third-level domains have now been signed with DNSSEC. The Internet Society Deploy360 Programme plans to build on this success and expand DNSSEC deployment by providing detailed, technical how-to resources and educational articles, case studies, and other in-depth information to help organizations of all sizes.

I’m very much looking forward to attending the session and meeting with the network operators from around the region. The ENOG 3 program agenda looks quite excellent and the attendee list already shows 275 people!  This is a regional meeting for the RIPE NCC and is the first time that an ENOG meeting has been held in the Ukraine.

My colleague Andrei Robachevsky will also be presenting on the topic of World IPv6 Launch and I’m looking forward to meeting up with him as well, given that he’s based in Amsterdam and I’m here in New Hampshire in the USA.

It will be interesting for me on a personal level, too, as the conference is in both English and Russian (with simultaneous translation) and my ability with the Russian language sadly doesn’t go much beyond “Nyet“!  I’m looking forward to being there and perhaps learning a few phrases along the way.  Getting to Odessa, though, turns out to be a bit entertaining for me… I’m flying Boston -> London -> Istanbul -> Odessa and basically losing Monday and Thursday to travel!  If you don’t see any blog posts from me on next Friday, you’ll know I’m caught somewhere in the air transport system! :-)

Anyway, if any of you are going to be at ENOG 3 next week I look forward to meeting with you!

Bombay Exhibition Center


09:30 -09:30 Bombay Exhibition Center
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Can You Add A World IPv6 Launch Badge/Banner To Your Blog Or Website?

World IPv6 Launch bannerWorld IPv6 Launch is only 19 days away – can you help us promote the event and get more people aware of the impending change to the Internet?

If you have a blog or website, and it would be appropriate for your audience or content, can you add one of our 3 different badges to a sidebar (as we’ve done on this site), footer or other appropriate location?

Even if your site/blog doesn’t yet support IPv6, putting the badge on your site can help raise awareness around the need for IPv6. We’d like to get as many people as possible aware of the upcoming event… and the fact that this time it’s for real!  IPv6 will not be turned off on June 7th.  This year it is all about permanently enabling IPv6 wherever possible.

If you go to the World IPv6 Launch downloads page at:

http://www.worldipv6launch.org/downloads/

you’ll see that we have a variety of options with either a transparent or velvet background.  The badges are also available in widths of 128, 256 or 512 pixels – and the transparent background images have SVG vector files as well.

Those 3 images with transparent backgrounds also have easy embed codes for the 128px images. For instance, here’s the code for the “Launch Badge”:

<a href=”http://www.worldipv6launch.org” ><img title=”WORLD IPV6 LAUNCH is 6 June 2012 – The Future is Forever” src=”http://www.worldipv6launch.org/wp-content/themes/ipv6/downloads/World_IPv6_launch_badge_128.png” alt=”WORLD IPV6 LAUNCH is 6 June 2012 – The Future is Forever” width=”128″ height=”128″ /></a>

Just copy that code, drop it on a web page, in a blog post or article, or in a sidebar widget and… ta da… you’ll have a World IPv6 Launch image!  As in the embeddable code, we’d obviously love it if all the images can link back to:

http://www.worldipv6launch.org/

so that more people can learn about the event and learn how they can participate.

Note, too, that the World IPv6 Launch badges/logos are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, so you can remix/re-use/resize the images to fit whatever dimensions you need.

If you have a web site and have a spare moment today, this weekend, or anytime soon to add a World IPv6 Launch badge or logo to your web site it would definitely help us get the world out!

On June 6, the Internet is changing and IPv6 will be turned on for real!  Please help us spread the word!

Video: Internet Society CITO Explains World IPv6 Launch (June 6, 2012)

Are you ready for World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012?  Or are you trying to figure out what’s going and what all the excitement is about?  Would you like to learn how you can participate?

In this short video, the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology Officer, Leslie Daigle, explains how “This Time It’s For Real!” and how World IPv6 Launch marks the historic beginning of a new era for the Internet.  This is not a one-day event… as of June 6th, IPv6 will be permanently enabled on websites and on access networks.  (Read more in our earlier post.)

Watch Leslie’s explanation … and then head over to www.worldipv6launch.org to find out more about how you can participate! And if you need help, check out our list of IPv6 tutorials, whitepapers, videos and more…

I Love Seeing How Companies Are Promoting World IPv6 Launch!

Okay, I have to admit that as an advocate for World IPv6 Launch on June 6th, I absolutely loved opening up Tweetdeck this morning and seeing a “promoted tweet” advertising World IPv6 Launch activities at the top of the my Twitter search on IPv6:

And here it is in the Twitter web interface:

Twitter search with promoted tweet

Now usually I thoroughly dislike the promoted tweets and wish they would stop “polluting” my Twitter stream, but in this case I was thrilled to see them!     Kudos to Cisco SP Mobility for taking the World IPv6 Launch message out into the Twittersphere in the form of advertisements.  And while I may or may not personally attend Cisco’s webcast, I’m glad to see them out there doing it.

I’ve also been very pleased to see a number of email messages promoting webinars or other events that other companies are doing in the run up to June 6th. Which raises the question:

What are YOU doing to help promote World IPv6 Launch?

Are you hosting any webinars/webcasts in the remaining 3 weeks? Are you talking to your clients or customers about how they can get started with IPv6?  Have you talked to internal teams about IPv6?  Have you added a World IPv6 Launch badge / banner to your website or blog?

How will you help people be part of this historic event?