Telstra Rolls Out IPv6 To Business ADSL Customers

We were very pleased to learn (via ZDNet) that Australia’s largest telecommunications company, Telstra, has just rolled out IPv6 connectivity to all of its business ADSL customers.  Using a dual-stack approach of allowing both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, Telstra’s David Robertson said in their news release: “As stocks of IPv4 addresses diminish globally, we need Read more…

Video: IP-Spoofing / Routing Best Practices Panel at RIPE 66

Can we stop the spoofing of IP addresses? Is the problem serious enough to warrant high-level attention? Are there best practices for routing that the larger community should be engaging in? What are the real challenges with stopping IP spoofing? These are the questions addressed in a recent post by our colleague Andrei Robachevsky, “Can Read more…

Missed The VUC Hangout About DNSSEC and VoIP? Watch The Recording…

Interested in learning more about how DNSSEC can potentially work with VoIP?  If you missed the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) Hangout in Google+ back on May 3 where I discussed this topic, you can now watch the archive at: It was a very enjoyable presentation and I do thank VUC host Randy Resnick for having Read more…

FIR #709 – 6/24/13 – For Immediate Release

Intro: Shel at IABC conference; Shel, Richard Binhammer, Mark Dollins launch SME2; in memoriam: PRSA’s Arthur Yann; new FIR Interview up, more coming; Quick News: What’s the cost of a decent press release?, Burberry posts runway show on Vine, Jimmy Wal…

Next “SIP Over IPv6″ Task Group Call On Thursday, June 20,

For those interested in helping make Voice-over-IP (VoIP) work over IPv6, and specifically VoIP using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the next conference call of the SIP Forum’s “SIP Over IPv6″ Task Group happens tomorrow, Thursday, June 20, 2013, at: 19:00 Central European Summer Time 18:00 British Summer Time 13:00 US Eastern Daylight Time 10:00 Read more…

With Our Every Action, We Create The Kind Of World We Want To Live In

In our every moment… in our every action… we create the kind of world we want to live in. We can choose to build people up, and help build a world of optimism and hope. Or we can choose to tear people down, and help build a world of divisiveness and negativity. Build people up – or tear people down. Your choice. I have been reminded of this several times lately in choices I have been confronted with. One stark moment was a few weeks back when we here in New England were being hit by an incredibly unseasonably cold…

TONIGHT – Live Webcast of "WordPress Security: Fact & Fiction"

Interested in WordPress security and making your site as secure as possible? Tonight, June 18, 2013, at 7:00pm US Eastern time (about 2 hours from now), I just learned that tonight’s WordPress NYC meetup will be livestreamed. The description sounds…

Video: Great WebRTC Tutorial and Demonstrations by Cullen Jennings

Want to understand more about WebRTC and where it is going? Want to see some demos of new WebRTC apps? At the recent INET event in Bangkok, Thailand, Dr. Cullen Jennings, one of the co-chairs of the IETF’s RTCWEB Working…

Google Fiber Shows 77.55% IPv6 Deployment In Latest World IPv6 Launch Statistics

Over on the World IPv6 Launch blog, Mat Ford just announced the most recent set of IPv6 measurements from the 114 network operators participating in the measurements program (and any network operator can join).  Mat notes the great news that an ISP in Singapore, Starhub, moved from 0.1% to over 8% deployment in the space Read more…

TDYR #017 – Experimenting With Facebook Hashtags

Today I logged into Facebook and found that I had the hashtag support that was announced last week. In this episode I talk about that support and what I find interesting and useful in the new support.