Category: About Deploy360

The Deploy360 Programme staff has been collecting requirements and feedback from the community here at the Deploy360 site, from within social networks and at our ION conferences.

Based on that feedback, we have outlined the IPv6-related and DNSSEC-related content that needs to be added to the Deploy360 Programme website:

• DNSSEC Roadmap for the Deploy360 Programme
• IPv6 Roadmap for the Deploy360 Programme

These are living documents that will be continually updated and changed as we complete listed items, discover new items we believe need to be added and/or receive feedback from the larger community about items that need to be added or removed from the list.  (And we welcome your feedback on these documents.)

Within each roadmap, the invidual sections lists two areas of content:

• Requirements – content that must be added to the site for this section to be “complete” in terms of meeting the section’s education goal.
• Enhancements – content that we would like to add to each section. This content may be added after the required content is complete or if additional funding, staff or volunteers can be found to assist with this content.

The content listed on these roadmaps will either be curated (i.e. found on the Internet, verified for accuracy and pointed to with a review from the Deploy360 site) or will be created by the Deploy360 team in conjunction with partners and volunteers.

Separate from the content identified here, there is also the need to translate the content on the Deploy360 site into other languages.

Feedback on these roadmaps is definitely welcome.

Are you a college/university student looking for a summer internship where you can make a difference? Are you passionate about the need for the open Internet? Do like explaining technology to people?

Here at the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme we are currently taking applications for a summer intern to help us continue building our online content related to real-world deployment information for IPv6 and DNSSEC. This is a communications-focused internship where you’ll be helping the larger Internet community by:

• Creating tutorials about how to deploy IPv6 and DNSSEC tools and services.
• Finding news items related to IPv6 and DNSSEC and writing brief articles about those items for the Deploy360 blog.
• Working with network operators, developers, content providers and enterprises to create written case studies outlining how the organization deployed IPv6 or DNSSEC.
• Finding and reviewing online resources that we can add to our ever-growing repository of IPv6- and DNSSEC-related content

The beauty of this position is that there is plenty of flexibility to incorporate your interests. If you are interested in working with companies to develop business-related case studies – or are interested in writing longer whitepapers, that can be a large part of the role. If you have a passion for creating tutorials, that can be your focus. If you’d really like to create videos or screencasts, we have a place for that kind of content, too. The role can also include some work with web design, site organization, etc. As a small team we have a great amount of flexibility.

The cool thing is that you can see that you are helping people in terms of the comments and feedback we receive as people use the resources we’re developing and pointing to in order to actually get IPv6 or DNSSEC deployed. You’re not spending your summer working on internal projects that you wonder who will ever see. The work we do is public and visible to everyone.

Note, too, that your content, articles, etc., will also be published under your name directly on the Deploy360 site, creating a body of work you can easily reference for future employers or other projects.

A few more details:

• This is a paid 60-day internship that will take place during June, July and/or August 2012, depending upon your schedule.
• The position will be located in our Reston, Virginia, office.
• You will be working on a daily basis with the other members of the Deploy360 team and will be highly engaged via chat, email, etc. This isn’t an internship where you sit at a desk in some basement corner – you will be very much part of the team.

Interested? Here’s how to apply:

• Send an email to “d360intern@isoc.org” with information about your background and why you think you would be an excellent fit for the role.
• In particular, if you’ve done anything with IPv6 (set up a test network?) or DNSSEC (signed a domain?) let us know that. While you don’t absolutely need to have knowledge of IPv6 or DNSSEC, it would obviously be helpful if you do. (And we can guarantee you that you will know probably more than you ever cared to know about them by the end of the internship! )
• Want to impress us? Find a recent article about IPv6 or DNSSEC that we haven’t written about on our blog and send us a writing sample of how you might create a brief blog post reviewing that article. Or go through our site and send some ideas about what we’re missing. Or create a screencast video illustrating one of our written tutorials… anything along those lines that help us see in a real form the kind of content you’d create for the site.
• Above all, show us that you’re passionate about helping take away the pain of deploying these new technologies and helping people learn. We want people who want to make a difference and accelerate the adoption and deployment of open standards!

We’re looking to fill this internship position shortly and already have candidates to consider… so let us know soon if you are interested – the position is only open until we find someone we think is awesome!

In an email message on Monday, T-Mobile’s Cameron Byrne let people interested in IPv6 know that IPv6 deployment was now complete on T-Mobile’s U.S. network:

Folks,

The IPv6 network deployment is now complete, with a few outstanding service caveats (MMS is still an issue, …) that we will continue to work on.

We will no longer be doing any white listing since all T-Mobile customers in all of T-Mobile’s coverage area can now access the APN epc.tmobile.com using IPv6 PDP on phones that work with IPv6.

Regarding phone that work with IPv6, we are continuing to push the
manufacturers to support IPv6, and we are seeing some positive signs as
Android 4.0 updates are now being tested with IPv6.

In the meantime, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (UMTS) remains the best bet
for what is available now.

The news spread through the tech world yesterday in large part through an ExtremeTech article, “IPv6 now deployed across entire T-Mobile US network,” that received good traffic through social networks. The discussion on Hacker News raised the question of why the IPv6 was limited to certain phones, and a look in the T-Mobile IPv6 setup instructions and FAQ provided this answer:

4. My phone is not listed above, will it work with IPv6?

• No, most phones do not have the Android radio firmware (RIL) that allows the phone to support IPv6 on the mobile interface.  T-Mobile USA is encouraging all handset phone manufacturers to support IPv6.  If more phones become available, we will update this site.

It’s interesting to note that it is a device limitation (of not having the correct firmware) and it is great to see that T-Mobile is working with handset vendors to encourage support of IPv6.  I’d note in the first email message I quoted the part about Android 4.0 updates being tested with IPv6.

The T-Mobile IPv6 site also references a number of known issues and provides some info about how they are making IPv4 content available over the IPv6 network.

All this is definitely great to see!  If you are a T-Mobile USA user with a Samsung Galaxy Nexus it’s definitely worth checking it out to see how the IPv6 network works.

P.S. I would love to do so myself but sadly T-Mobile’s coverage is still rather sparse in the woods of southwestern New Hampshire that I call home…

Last week we had the whole team working on the Deploy360 Programme in our Reston, VA, office and so we took a moment to shoot some video segments describing the program.  I spent some time with iMovie and the result is this “promotional video” about our program. Our intent with this is to have it available to explain to people in a little under 3 minutes what it is we are doing with the Deploy360 Programme.

Comments and feedback are welcome – what do you think of this as a way to promote what we are doing?

P.S. And yes, the audio/podcast guy in me wishes the audio were a bit crisper, but unfortunately I didn’t have my audio recording gear with me and so what you are hearing is the audio recorded by my Nikon D90 DSLR. Another time I’ll have my audio kit with me…

Working remotely, I was delighted to receive a package recently from my colleague Megan down in our Reston, VA, office that was full of Deploy360 stickers and pens!  One Deploy360 sticker now is nicely on the back of my iPad and another adorns the cover of my laptop. (Yes, I’m that kind of person who puts stickers all over his laptop cover.  Provides an easy way to make sure no one grabs my laptop in a sea of other laptops. )  The pens are also awesome and I’m looking forward to using them as my writing instrument of choice.

Would you like to receive a Deploy360 sticker or pen?  Just find us at one of our upcoming events and we’ll do what we can to get you one!

The Internet Society team that supports the Deploy360 Programme includes:

• Richard Jimmerson, Director, Deployment & Operationalization
• Dan York, Senior Content Strategist
• Megan Kruse, Outreach Manager

The team monitors email and social media channels and welcomes any communication about the programme.