Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Jun 06
On this 8th World IPv6 Launchiversary, Help Us Get More Websites Available Over IPv6
Eight years ago, on June 6, 2012, thousands of companies and organizations came together as part of World IPv6 Launch to permanently enable IPv6 for their websites and networks.
Today, we can see the success! If you visit the World IPv6 Launch measurements site, you can see some amazing numbers:
- Reliance Jio’s network in India has over 90% IPv6 deployment!
- Comcast’s huge network in the US is at 73% IPv6.
- The combined US wireless carriers are over 85% IPv6.
- Deutsche Telekom is over 68% IPv6.
- Claro in Brazil is at 62% IPv6.
Another major source of info, Google’s IPv6 statistics, show that over 30% of all traffic to Googles sites globally is now over IPv6. If you look at Google’s per-country IPv6 adoption, some countries are seeing up around 50% of all traffic to Google’s properties going over IPv6.
This is all fantastic to see. But of course, we want more IPv6 deployment!
Specifically, we want more web sites and services available over IPv6. Increasing numbers of IPv6-only mobile networks are being deployed around the world. To ensure that people can reach websites that are still only available over IPv4, many IPv6-only networks use IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways. But we want everyone to be able to reach every website as fast as possible, without having to go through gateways, which can slow down access. So, we need more sites to have native IPv6 connections.
To do this, we need your help!
Is your site IPv6-ready? First, you can test your own web site(s) with the Internet.nl test site.
If Internet.nl says your site already supports IPv6, then congratulations! You are all set to have people connect over IPv6 to your site.
If your site does not support IPv6 yet, as part of our Open Standards Everywhere project in 2020, we are providing documentation to help people operating web servers make their sites available over IPv6.
We would like your feedback on the documents we have so far.
If you operate your own web server running on an actual server or a virtual machine, we have instructions for Apache or NGINX web servers.
If you are using a content delivery network (CDN) in front of your web server, the reality is that many CDNs already support IPv6 by default. We have a list of CDNs we know support IPv6. If your CDN is not on the list, please let us know! And if your CDN does not support IPv6, please let them know that these other CDNs do – and perhaps that you might consider switching. 
If you host your web site with a web hosting provider, we are looking to build a list of web hosting providers who do and do not support IPv6 for websites. We have an open issue on GitHub where we are seeking input.
In all of these cases, we would appreciate your feedback. If you use GitHub, you can open a new issue (or reply to a current one). Alternatively, you can send me email or contact me on Twitter.)
With your help, we can create even stronger documentation that can help even more people make their sites available over IPv6!
Want to be more involved with the Open Standards Everywhere project?
- Watch/star our ose-documentation repository on GitHub – and engage in the issue discussion or contribute content.
- Join our discussion community in Connect.
- Encourage other people to test their sites with Internet.nl.
- Indicate your interest in the OSE Project through your member preferences, to receive email updates. (Not an Internet Society member yet? No problem – it’s free and easy to join.)
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May 30
10 Years of Exercise Tracking – And The Start of What Led to Running
Today is a special anniversary for me. It was 10 years ago, on May 30, 2010, that I made a decision to get serious about my health. I was about 60+ pounds over what a target weight should be for someone my age. I got winded just walking a few blocks. I needed to change! My wife and I both decided we were going to start getting in shape by just going walking. It was SO helpful to have her as a partner in doing this. We started walking in a beautiful, large cemetery in Keene, New Hampshire.
Over the weeks and months that followed, we started to add short bits of jogging to the walking. Then a little more. And a little more. And more. We had objectives - first we would run from the entrance down to the flagpole. Then we would extend it up to the Chapel. Then back to the flag pole... and so on.
Eventually over many months we were actively running through the cemetery paths!
And through it all I started to record my weight and other stats every Monday morning. I've continued doing that all these years later, leading to the nice chart at the top of this post. It's nice to have a decade of data.
There was a wonderful period of time in there from maybe 2011-2014 when I was actively running in 5K races. I even ran three half-marathons (the same race, three different years). And somewhere in there I would routinely run a loop through the whole cemetery after running an entire 5K!
Beyond adding in exercise, I was also looking at eating healthier, too. In large part cutting back on seconds, eating fewer sweets.
But then things happened. I kept finding excuses for not exercising. I didn't make the best food choices. And as the graph in this post shows, my weight kept climbing and climbing.
Then last fall I decided to get serious again. I tried increasing my exercise while also lowering my consumption of carbs and sugar. It was all working well as the red box on the right points out.
But then... COVID-19. And in the midst of all the chaos and uncertainty, I've chosen comfort foods and sweets, and have slacked off some on the exercise.
But... my goal is now to change that... and bring back more of the exercise, and make better food choices! Hopefully if I am still writing these posts 10 years from now, the story may be a bit different!
Time will tell... but tonight I'm just going to celebrate this anniversary of starting the journey toward being healthier - and all that that journey has brought to me!
May 13
TDYR 394 – After the pandemic, will livestreaming change churches and community organizations?
After the COVID-19 pandemic is over, will livestreaming change churches and community organizations? If so, how? In this episode I talk about how there have been some benefits seen in livestreaming. When the pandemic is over and we can start gathering again, will we bring with us any lessons from all our time streaming online?
May 13
TDYR 393 – SoundCloud Brings Back the Ability to Upload (but not Record) from IOS Apps
In the beginning, SoundCloud had a big orange button in their iOS app that let you record and upload audio. Then in 2014 that was removed... but now in 2020 the Upload ability is back (but not Record). In this episode I talk about that evolution over these years...
Links:
- TDYR 163 from 2014, where I talked about the initial change: https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-163-soundcloud-removes
- SoundCloud's info about uploading: http://web.archive.org/web/20200514015038/https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043080874-How-do-I-upload-tracks-on-iOS-
May 11
Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC and Security Workshop at ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum (Featured Blog)
If you are interested in speaking at the ICANN 68 DNSSEC Workshop, please send a brief (1-2 sentence) description of your proposed presentation to dnssec-kualalumpur@isoc.org by 29 May 2020. This online workshop will be Monday, 22 June 2020, from 02:00 – 04:30 UTC (10:00 – 12:30 Kuala Lumpur) We are doing something new this time and would like to get a feel for attendance for this virtual meeting. More...
May 11
Call for Participation – ICANN DNSSEC and Security Workshop at ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum (Featured Blog)
If you are interested in speaking at the ICANN 68 DNSSEC Workshop, please send a brief (1-2 sentence) description of your proposed presentation to dnssec-kualalumpur@isoc.org by 29 May 2020. This online workshop will be Monday, 22 June 2020, from 02:00 – 04:30 UTC (10:00 – 12:30 Kuala Lumpur) We are doing something new this time and would like to get a feel for attendance for this virtual meeting. More...
Apr 22
Reflections on Earth Day 1990 – And How It Fundamentally Changed My Life
As we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day today, April 22, 2020, my mind jumped back 30 years to "Earth Day 1990" in the state of New Hampshire. I made some choices that year and seized some opportunities that introduced me to the worlds of communications, community organizing, and public relations. I approached 1990 thinking I was going to be finishing up a Masters in Education degree and heading back to Connecticut to teach in a public high school. But life took very different turns and presented new opportunities. The choices I made then set me on the path that led to where I am 30 years later.
I reflected on all this in a podcast episode:
Happy Earth Day to you all!
P.S. See also this post I wrote today: On this 50th Earth Day, We Are Using The Internet To Change The World
Apr 22
TDYR 392 – Reflections on Earth Day 1990 and How It Fundamentally Changed My Life
On this 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, I look back 30 years and tell the story of how the events that led to Earth Day 1990, and the choices I made, fundamentally changed my life and set me on the path that led to where I am today...
See also this post: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/04/on-this-50th-earth-day-we-are-using-the-internet-to-change-the-world/
Apr 21
On this 50th Earth Day, We Are Using The Internet To Change The World
50 years ago when the first Earth Day happened, the networks that would later form the Internet were only beginning.
20 years later, when Earth Day 1990 turned the celebration into a global event, the World-Wide Web existed only as a single website in Switzerland.
Today, the Internet is our lifeline. In a world locked down by coronavirus, the Internet is how we connect. It is how we communicate, collaborate, and create together. It is how we work and how we play. And on this Earth Day 2020, we will use the Internet to celebrate the 50th anniversary.
Each and every day, we are using the Internet to respond to climate change and other environmental issues:
- Scientists are collaborating and sharing their knowledge. They are finding new solutions and creating new programs.
- Projects are crowdsourcing vast amounts of data from regular people around the world (ex. Earth Challenge 2020)
- We are sharing ideas and learning from each other.
- Policy makers are learning what works in other regions.
- We are avoiding unnecessary travel and reducing our carbon footprint.
- Activists are joining in global movements.
- We are seeing that what affects someone in one part of the world may affect us all.
This open, globally-connected network of networks empowers us to work for change. The Internet enables us to confront global challenges, whether those are viruses or a changing climate.
These many benefits do, of course, have costs. The Internet’s networks need electricity to operate. The data centers used by many services offered on the Internet can use huge amounts of power and water. All our many devices are leaving a long trail of discarded “e-waste”. These are challenges we all must confront.
We also face the reality that on this day, 49% of the world will not be able to join in the online celebrations. They are not able to work at home during this coronavirus crisis. They do not have the Internet access that most of us take for granted. The many opportunities of the Internet are not shared evenly – we must grow the Internet and connect the unconnected.
If we are to solve the many global challenges before us, we must tap into the creativity and ingenuity of people around the world. Everywhere. We must connect, communicate, and collaborate. We must share our ideas and innovations. We must learn from each other and help each other.
Now, more than ever, we must ensure that the Internet of opportunity is available to everyone.
We are stronger together. And through working together, we will find new ways to change the world.
Happy Earth Day!
Image credit: NASA Image Library
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Apr 20
TDYR 391 – Taking a Coffee Break via Zoom and Slack during COVID-19 Pandemic
In a time of isolation, how can you use virtual coffee breaks to connect with others? In this episode, I talk about how people within my organization have used the combination of Zoom and Slack to have virtual coffee (or tea) breaks to connect with each other. I also offer some tips for someone wanting to do this within your organization...
