What does the Web look like if you are browsing from an IPv6-only network? At the RIPE 67 event yesterday in Athens, Greece, Lee Howard of Time Warner Cable gave a brief overview of his team’s look at the IPv6-only user experience – and what needs to be done to make that experience a better one!
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If you are an author here at Voice of VOIPSA and are wondering why you just received an email about a password change, I went through and reset all the passwords on our user accounts. There was no security issue – I just realized that some of the accounts have not been used for a long time and I had no idea about the strength of the passwords. If you want to login you’ll need to use the “Forgot my password” reset link to generate a link to a new password (or contact me and I can reset it). My apologies for any inconvenience.
Do you want the best gaming experience using the upcoming Xbox One console from Microsoft? If so, you should ask your network operator if you can get IPv6! Or, if you are a network operator, you should look at rolling out IPv6 to your customers!
Yesterday at NANOG 59 in Phoenix, Arizona, Microsoft’s Chris Palmer explained that the Xbox One gaming console uses IPv6 for the peer-to-peer (p2p) communication between gamers. His slides are now available from the NANOG site and they walk through the IPv6 support and the rationale for the continued use of the Teredo transition technology so that Xbox One will work over IPv4. (The video is also included below.)
A key point on Palmer’s second slide is this:
Network operators that want to provide the best possible user experience for Xbox One users:
Provide IPv6 Connectivity
Allow transition technologies such as Teredo to function
Allow for IPsec transport mode to function
So… if you are a network operator and you want your gaming customers using the Xbox One to have the best possible gaming experience, make IPv6 available to your customers! (Find out how to get started with IPv6)
Even with the concerns this is definitely a great step forward in getting more consumer electronics not only IPv6-enabled but actively using IPv6 in their operations. Kudos to Christopher Palmer and the rest of the Microsoft team for making this happen!
Now… can we get the rest of the gaming consoles to please work over IPv6? And will this move encourage more network operators to get serious about rolling out IPv6 to their customers?
UPDATE: This post seems to have attracted some attention and there are some interesting discussion threads over on Hacker News and also over on Reddit.
If you are attending the 59th meeting of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) in Phoenix, Arizona, please do say hello to Chris Grundemann, our new director of Deployment & Operationalization (DO), under which the Deploy360 Programme sits.
Chris is of course no stranger to NANOG as he has been very involved with setting up the regional “Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP)” efforts happening within NANOG.
The full agenda can be found on the NANOG website. Beyond his BCOP presentation, Chris will be around the NANOG event meeting with people in his new role. If you are interested in reaching Chris, you can email him at grundemann@isoc.org.
[1] Arizona does not use Daylight Savings Time and so Phoenix has remained on “Mountain Standard Time” (MST) which is UTC-7 and the same as US Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). So you can think of it as being the same time as it is in California and the rest of the US west coast.
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On Wednesday, October 3rd, I spoke about DNSSEC and DANE at the ENOG 6 event in Kiev, Ukraine. The video of the session recorded by the ENOG team should be online in about two weeks but in the meantime I thought I’d share my slides that are posted to SlideShare:
It was a great event with some excellent questions and some ideas for further work!
Happy Eyeballs for SIP
3.1. Connection oriented
3.2. UDP
IPv6 and related protocols
4.1. MSRP
4.2. XCAP/HTTP
4.3. ICE/turn
4.4. Other related protocols
Anyone is welcome to join the SIP Forum’s IPv6 mailing list and also to join in the effort. The group is working to “evaluate current best practices and enable and promote migration to SIP over IPv6.”
It’s great to see the work they are doing because we definitely do need to have IP-based telecommunications working over IPv6!
What does the Web look like if you are browsing from an IPv6-only network? At the RIPE 67 event yesterday in Athens, Greece, Lee Howard of Time Warner Cable gave a brief overview of his team’s look at the IPv6-only user experience – and what needs to be done to make that experience a better one!
Do you want the best gaming experience using the upcoming Xbox One console from Microsoft? If so, you should ask your network operator if you can get 
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