November 2014 archive

Nov 04

Chinese Translations Of IPv6 And DNSSEC Fact Sheets Now Available For Download

No sooner had I announced that our IPv6 Fact Sheet and our DNSSEC Fact Sheet are both now available in Russian than I learned that the Chinese versions are also now available:

… and I should be able to publish the Arabic versions tomorrow.  All great news for people wanting to make more information about IPv6 and DNSSEC available to people all around the world.

As we noted in our earlier posts about the IPv6 Fact Sheet and about the DNSSEC Fact Sheet, these simple documents are available for you to use in whatever way you wish.  Please feel free to download them and share them widely.

Please do let us know any feedback you have on these documents.  Our goal is to help you get IPv6 and DNSSEC deployed within your organizations and networks.  Please let us know how we can help.

And if you want to get started with IPv6 or DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to find resources to help you get started!

chinese-fact-sheet

Nov 04

New MANRS Graphic Available For Usage (And Do You Have A Better Suggestion?)

manrs-300x150Given that it is useful to have a graphic that can be used in articles about this initiative, we created a basic MANRS graphic that you are free to download and use however you see fit under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.  The graphic is available as a JPEG image in the following formats and sizes:

Rectangle:

Square:

Please note – IF YOU HAVE A BETTER SUGGESTION for a graphic / logo that we can use to promote the MANRS initiative, we’d love to hear from you!  We created this one because we needed something … but we’re definitely open to other ideas.  Ideally we’d like to have a variety of badges and logos along the lines of what was created for the World IPv6 Launch so that supporters can show their support for the MANRS initiative on their websites, blogs, social media, etc.

Nov 03

The Many Colors Of Blue

Here is a quick table of shades of Blue taken from the old X11 color names:

BlueHTML code
SkyBlue#87CEEB
Navy#000080
LightSteelBlue#B0C4DE
PowderBlue#B0E0E6
Blue#0000FF
LightSkyBlue#87CEFA
DeepSkyBlue#00BFFF
CornflowerBlue#6495ED
LightBlue#ADD8E6

Nov 03

Video: Andrei Robachevsky Introduces MANRS At RIPE 69

At the RIPE 69 meeting today in London, Andrei Robachevsky gave a lightning talk about “How Can We Work Together to Improve the Security and Resilience of the Global Routing System?” where he introduced the MANRS document and asked people to join the initiative.  You can view his slides and watch the video of his presentation:

andrei-ripe69If you are interested in being added to the growing list of participants, please sign up!

 

Nov 03

IPv6 Statistics Show Continued Growth – Have You Migrated Your Apps Yet?

IPv6stats–GoogleIt is fun to watch the various IPv6 statistics sites because they continue to show the amazing growth of IPv6 around the world.  The World IPv6 Launch measurements now show Verizon Wireless’ network at 59% IPv6, T-Mobile USA at 43%, AT&T at 25%.  Google’s IPv6 statistics show that traffic into Google web sites globally is about to hit 5%.  And then today Akamai launched new IPv6 trend charts that show IPv6 traffic out of Belgium at 29.2%, from Germany 12% and from Luxembourg and the USA right at 10% with Peru not far behind.

All of this shows that IPv6 deployment is very real!  If you haven’t started migrating your applications so that they will work over IPv6 in addition to IPv4, why not?

Obviously I’d encourage you to buy the book to help understand what you need to do… but you can also view the many IPv6 resources out there on the Internet to learn more!  The key point is that you need to get started NOW!  IPv6 is being deployed globally – will your application work over IPv6?

Nov 03

IPv6 Statistics Show Continued Growth – Have You Migrated Your Apps Yet?

IPv6stats–GoogleIt is fun to watch the various IPv6 statistics sites because they continue to show the amazing growth of IPv6 around the world.  The World IPv6 Launch measurements now show Verizon Wireless’ network at 59% IPv6, T-Mobile USA at 43%, AT&T at 25%.  Google’s IPv6 statistics show that traffic into Google web sites globally is about to hit 5%.  And then today Akamai launched new IPv6 trend charts that show IPv6 traffic out of Belgium at 29.2%, from Germany 12% and from Luxembourg and the USA right at 10% with Peru not far behind.

All of this shows that IPv6 deployment is very real!  If you haven’t started migrating your applications so that they will work over IPv6 in addition to IPv4, why not?

Obviously I’d encourage you to buy the book to help understand what you need to do… but you can also view the many IPv6 resources out there on the Internet to learn more!  The key point is that you need to get started NOW!  IPv6 is being deployed globally – will your application work over IPv6?

Nov 03

BCOP Session At RIPE 69 Streaming Live Now

RIPE 69 logoRight at this moment at the RIPE 69 meeting in London, the RIPE Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) Task Force is holding its meeting and reviewing a number of different draft BCOP documents.  You can watch live on the RIPE 69 live stream but the session is close to finishing up.  The good news is that all of the slides and video archives are appearing on the RIPE69 BCOP Task Force page almost as soon as they are presented.

The agenda for the meeting is:

A. Opening – Jan Zorz

B. BCOP Around the World – Aaron Hughes

C. Euro-IX IXP BCOPs  – Bijal Sanghani

D. IPv6 Troubleshooting for Helpdesks  – Sander Steffann and Jen Linkova

E. BCP38 + Enterprise and IX Filtering – Aaron Hughes

F. BGP BCOP – Guillaume Valadon

G. Deaggregation by Large Organizations – Iljitsch van Beijnum

H. MANRS (aka Routing Resilience Manifesto) – Andrei Robachevsky

Our team member Jan Žorž is there facilitating the meeting and actively participating as part of our overall efforts to help create more BCOP documents globally.

 

 

Nov 03

Russian Versions of IPv6 and DNSSEC Fact Sheets Now Available

Здравствуйте! We are very pleased to announced that our IPv6 Fact Sheet and our DNSSEC Fact Sheet are both now available in Russian in addition to English, French and Spanish.  The documents are available directly at:

As we noted in our earlier posts about the IPv6 Fact Sheet and about the DNSSEC Fact Sheet, these simple documents are available for you to use in whatever way you wish.  Please feel free to download them and share them widely.

Please do let us know any feedback you have on these documents.  Our goal is to help you get IPv6 and DNSSEC deployed within your organizations and networks.  Please let us know how we can help!

The Arabic and Chinese versions of these documents will be coming soon.  And if you want to get started with IPv6 or DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to find resources to help you begin!

Russian Fact Sheet

Nov 03

Akamai Launches New IPv6 Trend Visualization Charts

Today the folks over at Akamai launched a new set of IPv6 statistics and trend visualization charts that help confirm the ongoing growth of IPv6 that we are seeing all around the world. Launched as part of Akamai’s “State of the Internet” (SOTI) Trends area, these new charts allow you to explore IPv6 deployment on a country or network basis.  As our colleague Phil Roberts writes today on our Internet Technology Matters blog:

This is a really nice tool that allows you to see what they see in terms of a view of IPv6 deployment by country and by network. Whereas the World IPv6 Launch measurements are an opt-in measurement for networks, Akamai publishes data from every network where they see IPv6 traffic, so they report some large deployments that we don’t have in our data. Kabel Deutschland is an example of a network with a large IPv6 deployment (35% of the traffic coming from their network to Akamai’s servers uses IPv6) that isn’t in our database.

The country trend charts are great to see and fall in line with numbers that we see out of similar statistics from Google, APNIC, Cisco and also Eric Vyncke.  Obviously with Akamai only recording this data starting from August 31, 2014, you don’t yet see the longer trend lines that some of the other sites can show, but it will be helpful to have these trend charts over the months and years ahead as IPv6 continues to grow. (I’d note that Akamai has been tracking overall IPv6 growth statistics for several years now, so you can see the overall trend chart.  Now they are displaying charts on a per-country and per-network basis.)

Akamai IPv6 trends

As Phil mentioned in his post, a great aspect of these charts is that they come from Akamai’s own data across the servers of their content distribution network (CDN) and so you gain a strong view into what networks are really sending IPv6 traffic.  If you click on the “Networks” tab on the right side of their page just above the names of the countries, you can start seeing the trend chart by network names. Interesting to note, too, Akamai’s message when you hover your cursor over the Networks tab:

Note that the Networks ranking is determined by the volume of IPv6 requests to Akamai.

This explains why Comcast Cable is listed first even though Verizon Wireless has a higher percentage of IPv6 requests.  Comcast’s networks have simply sent more requests in total to Akamai’s network than Verizon Wireless’ network has.   Akamai’s Network trend charts also line up nicely with the World IPv6 Launch measurements as Akamai has been one of the long-standing providers of data into that project (although, as Phil noted, only for networks that opted in to participating in the WIPv6L measurements).

We’re very pleased to have these new charts out there from Akamai – and look forward to continuing to watch them grow as IPv6 continues its global march toward full deployment!

P.S. If you haven’t yet started with your own IPv6 deployment, please visit our Start Here page to find resources to help you get started!

 

Nov 03

Congrats to Ireland’s IEDR For Signing .IE With DNSSEC

IE logoCongratulations to IEDR for the signing of Ireland’s .IE country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) with DNSSEC!

IEDR’s Billy Glynn sent the following message to the dnssec-deployment mailing list this morning:

As of 11:11:19 GMT, IEDR has published a DNSSEC signed zone. Our DS RR has been submitted for inclusion in the Root Zone.

Until the end of Q1 2015, we will only be accepting 2nd-level DS RRs manually. Thereafter, our applications will do so.

For reference, our DPS is here:

https://www.iedr.ie/dnssec/IEDR-DPS_v1.0.pdf

Separately we saw tweets from both IEDR and Billy:

IEDR, the registry behind the .IE domain, also published a news announcement this morning that included this statement from Billy Glynn:

“we’re delighted to have pushed out our first DNSSEC signed zone. We’ve been signing the IE zone in parallel systems for over two years now and we feel this is a good time to deploy in production. This is an exciting initiative that will allow IE domain holders to leverage other security protocols such as DANE and it’s variants which will add extra security to email and websites.”

The announcement also included a link to join the mailing list for Ireland’s DNSSEC Task Force and a link to a separate page about DNSSEC that includes IEDR’s deployment timeline.

We’re delighted that IE has joined the 102 other ccTLD’s around the world that have signed with DNSSEC and look forward to seeing the growth of signed second-level .IE domains!

By the way, if you have a second-level .IE domain (or any other domain) and want to get started with DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to find resources tailored to your type of organization or role.

P.S. The news about .IE being signed came out after this week’s DNSSEC deployment maps were distributed via email.  We look forward to being able to see Ireland wearing an appropriate shade of green in next week’s distribution of the maps!