This afternoon at The Cable Show conference in Boston, MA, Comcast and Time Warner Cable together with the sponsorship of Cisco have coordinated a 2.5-hour event called “IPv6 Workshop: Status Update on the Global Transition“. The session will include speakers on topics: Addressed for Success: Implications of the IPv6 Transition 3…2…1…Liftoff: Closing in on the Read more…
May 23
When Was The Last Time You TOLD A Story?
It’s bed time… you go upstairs to the bedroom with your child and watch or help as he/she gets ready for bed. Once they are nestled in, a typical next step is a bedtime story. But how often have you…
May 23
New Nmap Version 6 Provides Full IPv6 Support, Useful IPv6 Tools
The big news this week out of The Nmap Project was the release of Nmap 6, “the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009.” The big addition of interest to us, of course, was the deep Read more…
May 23
Cisco Outlines How They Prepared For World IPv6 Launch
How did Cisco prepare to participate in World IPv6 Launch? What did they have to do internally? What testing did they do? With the big event only 2 weeks from today on June 6th, 2012, Jon Woolwine explained on the “Inside Cisco IT” blog what they did in an article entitled “Preparing for World IPv6 Read more…
May 22
Facebook Now Available Over IPv6 (Two Weeks Early)
With two weeks to go until World IPv6 Launch, word started circulating today in social networks that Facebook had enabled IPv6 for their site two weeks early. A quick use of “dig aaaa www.facebook.com” shows that yes, indeed, Facebook is now publishing the quad-A record for IPv6: ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.facebook.com. 9 IN AAAA 2a03:2880:10:1f02:face:b00c::25 Read more…
May 22
Video/Slidecast: What Is World IPv6 Launch All About? How Can You Participate?
What is World IPv6 Launch all about? What does it mean for IPv6 to be “the new normal”? How can you participate in World IPv6 Launch? In this short video, the Internet Society’s Phil Roberts explains what is happening on June 6, 2012, what it means to the industry and how to get involved. (NOTE: Read more…
May 18
Friday IPv6 Meme Image: IPv6 On All The Things!
It’s late on a Friday afternoon… we’re all a little silly and ready for an insanely busy work week to wind down… so a colleague goes to memegenerator.net and in a minute or two passes around an image: We laughed… and a few others were admittedly created. And then we got to thinking… in the Read more…
May 18
Deploy360 To Present On Accelerating DNSSEC Deployment at ENOG3 in Odessa, Ukraine, Next Week
Will you be at the third meeting of the Eurasia Network Operators Group (ENOG) on May 22-23, 2012, in Odessa, Ukraine? If so, you’ll get to hear me (Dan York) speaking about “Key Steps to Accelerating DNSSEC Deployment“. The abstract of my session is: Everyone wants a more secure Internet and DNSSEC provides a level Read more…
May 18
Can You Add A World IPv6 Launch Badge/Banner To Your Blog Or Website?
World IPv6 Launch is only 19 days away – can you help us promote the event and get more people aware of the impending change to the Internet? If you have a blog or website, and it would be appropriate for your audience or content, can you add one of our 3 different badges to Read more…