June 2013 archive

Jun 10

FIR #707 – 6/10/13 – For Immediate Release

New Speakers and Speeches and Jeremiah Owyang interview are up, interviews with Glenn Gaudet and CEOs and cofounders of Festicket and Farmhopping coming; Alice Marshall's blog gets a new address; you can leave FIR audio comments directly from the website; IABC report coming next week; Quick News: a brilliant use for Vine, compliance not to blame for pharma's lack of social media engagement, Amazon's Storyteller turns scripts into storyboards, study finds social networks improve internal access to information; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Cheerios gets it right by standing its ground in the face of social media backlash, Dan York's report, impressions from LeWeb London 2013, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, four reports from the frontlines of digital and social media, Michael Netzley's Asia report, Anonymous enters the news business; music from Belladonna; and more.

Jun 07

TDYR #014 – Duh! Of Course The NSA Is Spying On The Internet – We Told Them To!

Today there is an enormous amount of outrage and anger out on the Internet about revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) apparently has connections into 9 major Internet companies and has also been receiving all "metadata" about phone calls. The reality is that we as a country granted the NSA and other intelligence agencies broad sweeping powers of electronic surveillance in October 2001 when the US Congress passed the US PATRIOT Act and President Bush signed it into law. Those powers have only expanded in the time since. The big question is how to balance the legitimate needs of governments to track down criminals and terrorists against the legitimate needs of citizens for privacy and freedom. How much freedom/privacy are you willing to give up in the name of security and safety? Some of the many articles: http://www.techmeme.com/130606/p47#a130606p47 Who voted for the PATRIOT Act: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/patriotact20012006senatevote.shtml EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/confirmed-nsa-spying-millions-americans Timeline: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline/ Bruce Schneier's call for more transparency: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/what-we-dont-know-about-spying-on-citizens-scarier-than-what-we-know/276607/

Jun 06

RIPE Labs Reports on IPv6 Readiness of Today’s Networks

To what degree are network operators engaging with IPv6? How ready are they to deploy IPv6? Those were the questions RIPE Labs’ Antony Gollan took on in his post today on the RIPE Labs blog in celebration of the 1 year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. The RIPE NCC, the regional Internet registry (RIR) for the European region, uses a measure they call “RIPEness” to rate the IPv6 readiness of their members (who RIPE refers to as “Local Internet Registries” or “LIRs”). As he shows in the chart, the situation has improved in the past year:

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He also touches on an effort to create a “fifth star” of IPv6 RIPEness that would measure whether LIRs are providing content over IPv6 and providing IPv6 access to end users. He also goes on to talk about their measurements showing the percentage of networks announcing IPv6 prefixes into the global routing system – and provides an excellent chart showing the growth (you’ll need to read the post to see it).

It’s great to see these measurements and statistics from RIPE NCC that coincide so well with the information we’re seeing out of other IPv6 statistics sites, including the World IPv6 Launch measurements.

Jun 06

World IPv6 Launch Media Report #1 – Mythic Beasts, Telefonica in Peru, Municipal WiFI, CloudFlare and more…

World IPv6 Launch LogoWe’ve been thrilled to see all the articles, stories, blog posts, news releases and other media appearing about the anniversary of World IPv6 Launch. The stories are still streaming in and we’re tracking them through mechanisms like the #v6launch and #IPv6 hashtags on Twitter and on Google+.  Here are just a few of the many articles we found interesting today:

  • IPv6 Launch Day – One Year Later – In this Enterprise Networking Planet piece, Sean Michael Kerner interviewed the Internet Society’s Phil Roberts to catch up on what has changed in the last year.
  • Happy IPv6 Day: Usage On the Rise, Attacks Too – The good folks at CloudFlare gave some stats around the IPv6 traffic they are seeing and also detailed a couple of attacks they have seen over IPv6. They also provided their guesses as to when we turn off IPv4 on either a linear or exponential case. Needless to say, we hope it’s closer to the exponential side of things!
  • IPv6-Enabled Municipal WiFi Network in Douglasville, GA – While we don’t usually write about news releases related to IPv6 products or services, we did think this was a very cool milestone – the deployment of an IPv6-enabled municipal WiFi network in Douglasville, GA. From the news release: “The municipal WiFi network covers about 60 acres collectively, including downtown Douglasville, making it one of the largest public WiFi networks in Georgia.”  Apparently this was paid for by Google as part of its community outreach program and the company doing the deployment, Network Utility Force, also has  a TV interview online (and photos) where they explain the project more.  It would be great to see more of these municipal WiFi networks launch with IPv6 from the beginning!
  • IPv6 in action: How Mythic Beasts does it - This piece on TechRepublic provides a case study in how Mythic Beasts, a hosting provider in the UK, has set up their systems to work over IPv6. Great to see technical pieces like this.
  • Telefonica Pushes Ahead with IPV6 Support in Peru - Telefónica indicated that it has selected Peru as its first country for a wide IPv6 deployment. They also issued a press release reaffirming their support for IPv6 and stating that they are leading IPv6 deployment in Latin America.
  • IPv6: Less Talk and More Walk – Over on CircleID, Bruce Sinclair had an interesting post about how they had tracked the “buzz” around IPv6 across tweets, blogs and news stories and found that there was less buzz and more just getting IPv6 done.
  • Future Internet gets boost, courtesy of IPv6! – The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) had a nice short post out but what I enjoyed was their note that ENISA was the first EU agency to adopt IPv6 way back in 2009!

Plus a great article from our friends at RIPE Labs that we’ll cover separately.

All great to see!

P.S. And while we generally don’t write about ads here, I will give a shoutout to Fluke Networks for posting to Google+ the only advertisement I’ve seen today that specifically calls out “World IPv6 Day”.  (Note to Fluke: We’ve only used “Day” back in 2011, but hey you’re not alone in that given other articles out there.)

P.P.S. And if you are looking to get started with IPv6, please check out our IPv6 resources, particularly our new tutorial on making content available over IPv6.

Jun 06

New Tutorial: Making Content Available Over IPv6

mcaoipv6-01-nativipv6How can you best make your web content available over IPv6? What are the different strategies you can use? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using dual-stack, load balancers, 6to4, NAT64 and proxy servers?

On this, the 1st anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, we are delighted to publish a new tutorial on this exact topic.  Titled simply “Making Content Available Over IPv6“, the new document is available at:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/making-content-available-over-ipv6/

The tutorial is written by Sander Steffann, who has a great amount of experience with IPv6, and covers the steps for how you can make your content available over IPv6 using:

  • Native IPv6
  • Using load balancers
  • Using IPv6-to-IPv4 proxy servers
  • NAT64

He provides some excellent diagrams and examples of configuration files and assesses both the benefits and drawbacks of each solution.

We encourage you to take a read through this document and please do let us know if this helps you make your content available over IPv6!

 

Jun 06

TDYR #013 – The 1-Year Anniversary Of World IPv6 Launch – And Why IPv6 Is So Important

Today is the 1-year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch - what has changed in the year since with IPv6 growth? And why should you care, anyway? Today I discussed all that... http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/infographic/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ http://www.worldipv6launch.org/blog/ http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/making-content-available-over-ipv6/

Jun 05

Register Now – Webinar TOMORROW, June 6: “IPv6 In The Real World” Presented by AfriNIC, ISOC, Orange

African IPV6 Task Force LogoInterested to learn more about how IPv6 usage has grown since last year’s World IPv6 Launch? And specifically within the African region?  If so, you can join in a free webinar happening tomorrow, June 6, 2013, at 1:00 pm UTC (9:00 am US Eastern) where I will be joining representatives of Liquid Telecom and Orange Uganda to talk about IPv6 deployments over the past year.  From the webinar page:

The session will examine the case studies of two large and experienced network operators on the continent and how they use IPv6 in their networks as well as the global state of IPv6 use since the global IPv6 launch.

Liquid Telecom, one of the largest fibre networks on the continent, and Orange Uganda will offer insights into the deployment of IPv6 in their networks.

This is part of an ongoing series of IPv6 webinars sponsored by AfriNIC, the Internet Society and France Telecom Orange.

For my part, I will be discussing some of the global trends we’ve seen in IPv6 deployment, many of which were highlighted in a recent World IPv6 Launch news release and associated infographic as well as a recent Internet Technology Matters blog post from my colleague Mat Ford.  I’ll also be showing some of the latest charts from some of the IPv6 statistics sites.

I’m very much looking forward to participating in the session and learning more about what is happening in Africa.  You, too, are welcome to register and participate.

Jun 04

TDYR #012 – On The Challenge Of NOT Being Sucked Into Social Networks

An ever-present challenge in our world of social networks is how to NOT get sucked into those networks when it is so incredibly easy to do so. How do we maintain the discipline to embrace those networks when we have the time - but to not get sucked in when we really should be doing something else? I talk about a couple of steps I've taken... I'm also very curious to hear *your* ideas. :-)

Jun 03

Thursday Marks 1 Year Since World IPv6 Launch – Have You Made The Move? (If Not, Why Not?)

World IPv6 Launch LogoThis Thursday, June 6, marks the one year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch.  As we stated in a news release today, the growth in connected IPv6 users has more than doubled since June 6, 2012. In fact, the IPv6 measurements page shows even greater growth in some networks.  For instance, Verizon Wireless, who we recently wrote about having 25% of its traffic over IPv6, now is closer to 31%!

Our colleague Mat Ford dove into the growth over the last year, and includes a variety of charts, in a post on our Internet Technology Matters site: One Year On – IPv6 Deployment Since World IPv6 Launch. Mat also highlights some of the major networks that have rolled out IPv6 in the time since last year’s launch.

Over the course of this week, we’ll be talking about IPv6 here on this site and promoting links and information across our various social media channels (you are following us, right? :-) ).  There will also be a good bit of information flowing out through the World IPv6 Launch social media channels at:

We encourage you to follow those channels to get the latest info and join in the celebration.

Speaking of joining in, it’s been a year since World IPv6 Launch – have you made the move to IPv6 yet? 

If not, why not?

We’ve got a great bit of information about IPv6 to help – and we’re always looking to learn what we’re missing and how we can help.  As we are continually writing about on this site, the time is NOW!

How can we help you move to IPv6?

Jun 03

FIR #706 – 6/3/13 – For Immediate Release

Final B2B Huddle keynote is up; Jeremiah Owyang interview coming; Neville will be at LeWeb London; no Asia Report today; Quick News: diminished role of relationships in media relations, LinkedIn launches two-step verification, PRSA aims to raise APR visibility, Australian police communicate dangers of 3D printed guns; Ragan promo; News That Fits: over half of employers use social media for internal communications, newsroom Reddit use applicable to PR, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, Dan York reports on Google Plus Hangouts and EFF initiative, best-in-class practices in employee communications, executives want their CEOs to use social media; how to comment; music from Special Guests; and more.