How many of the top 1 million websites (according to Alexa) are using IPv6? Hackertarget.com, a provider of online security scanning services, released an infographic summarizing their research. As they say on their page: Analysis of IPv6 enabled sites was conducted in March 2012. We have analysed the Alexa Top 1 Million sites and looked Read more…
May 11
Spelling Counts In Infographics!
Spelling counts! Always! Even in trendy things like "infographics"… you need to always check, check and re-check to make sure that things are spelled correctly[1]. Always. Period. Full stop. This morning brought a perfect illustration of this… a friend on…
May 11
Video: What is the role of the IETF? How does it help the Internet and open standards?
What does the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) do? What role does it play in setting Internet standards? As readers are probably aware, I’ve been a long-time supporter and advocate of the IETF’s work on open standards, writing about it…
May 08
Want An Awesome Summer Internship? Apply Now For the 2012 Deploy360 Internship!
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 Read more…
May 07
New Statistics on IPv6-enabled BitTorrent Peers In P2P Networks
Eric Vyncke continues to crank out interesting visualizations of IPv6-related statistics. We’d previously written about his daily IPv6 statistics, but now he’s out with new statistics about IPv6 usage within BitTorrent P2P networks. Based on work documented in an Internet Draft, draft-vyncke-ipv6-traffic-in-p2p-networks, Eric’s interactive map is interesting to use. At the time of this blog Read more…
May 04
As An Author, Why I Truly Hate Ebook DRM
As an author of multiple technical books, and a prolific online writer, I care a lot about intellectual property issues as they pertain to my content. On one level, you might think I would be extremely concerned about people stealing…
May 03
EFF’s Coders’ Rights Video: Do It For The Kittens!
Sooooo… the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), of which I am a member, sends out a promotional video for their Coders’ Rights Project that involves… kittens???
While I support the Coders’ Rights Project and applaud their creativity, this video feels a bit forced… kind of like “everyone loves kitten videos, so we just …
May 03
ICANN Seeking Participants and Speakers for DNSSEC Workshop June 27 in Prague
Our friends over at the DNSSEC Deployment Initiative have noted that ICANN issued a Call for Participation for their upcoming DNSSEC Workshop on June 27, 2012, in Prague, Czech Republic, as part of the ICANN 44 meetings happening there. This is a similar workshop to the excellent DNSSEC workshop at ICANN 43 that I attended Read more…
May 03
Updates Submitted For “Migrating Applications To IPv6” Book
Very early this morning, I submitted a range of updates to the book to O’Reilly’s production team. As this is the first formal update I’ve made, I’m not sure of the exact process from here, but at some point soon the updated …
May 02
Cisco Blog: 5 Steps For Building Your IPv6 Address Plan
Today over on Cisco’s “Borderless Networks” blog, Jim Bailey had a great post up tackling the issue around how you create a plan for your IPv6 address space: “Integrating IPv6 Into Your Network: Five Steps for Building Your IPv6 Address Plan“. Guidance on planning your IPv6 addressing is definitely a topic I have in our Read more…
