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When the Internet Breaks, Who Ya Gonna Call?At this point, it's hard to imagine life without the Internet, at least in the developed world. But buried underneath the breathtaking Web applications and streaming media that we use on a daily basis, the actual software that makes the Internet work is starting to show its age.
IPv6 Growth Increases 300 Percent in Two YearsThe Number Resource Organization (NRO), which is made up of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), announces today that the rate of new entrants into the IPv6 routing system has increased by approximately 300 percent over the past two years.
Google: more Macs mean higher IPv6 usage in USGoogle has been checking to see who's using IPv6. According to the company's tracking, half of all IPv6-capable systems seen by Google are Macs, helping the US land in fifth place in percentage of IPv6 users world wide, ahead of China and Japan.
Big Changes Ahead for the Internet, Says Vint CerfThe Internet will get support for IPv6, a more secure domain name system and international characters, during the next couple of years, according to Vint Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google.
We're running out of IPv4 addresses. Time for IPv6. Really.A little over a year ago, I wrote an article about the IPv4 address consumption with the subtitle IPv4 Address Space: 2.46 Billion Down, 1.25 Billion to Go. A week ago, we reached the magic number of 2.7 billion IPv4 addresses used.
ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses | CNET News.comThe great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version.
Overhaul of net addresses beginsThe first big steps on the road to overhauling the net's core addressing system have been taken. On Monday the master address books for the net are being updated to include records prepared in a new format known as IP version 6.
Four Root DNS Servers Go IPv6 On February 4thIPv6 will finally become a reality! On February 4th four root servers will transition from IPv4 over to IPv6!
IPv6: coming to a root server near youJust before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested it." The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is mostly re …
Lockheed Martin Adopts IPv6U.S. government contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. has begun to move part of its network to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) as a way of showing customers how to make the transition, the company said.
Is the Internet Over?....There have always been undercurrents that have tried to eat away at the foundations of the current Internet. One is Internet2, a parallel-universe Internet that would be used by academia and perhaps the military.
Windows Vista Not Playing Well with IPv6Early adopters of Microsoft's new Vista operating system are reporting problems with its implementation of IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's primary protocol.
Linux.com | NuFW brings IPv6 supportBy: Shirl Kennedy The Now User Filtering Works (NuFW) team has announced the initial release of the 2.2 stable branch. NuFW is a user-authenticating firewall that runs on top of the the Netfilter framework.
ARIN Board Advises Internet Community on Migration to IPv6ARIN and the other Regional Internet Registries have distributed Internet Protocol version 6, IPv6, alongside IPv4 since 1999. To date, ARIN has issued both protocol versions in tandem and has not advocated one over the other.
Security flaws found in IPv6 protocolAt the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Philippe Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard showed that a security flaw in the IPv6 protocol can be used to defeat the root DNS servers anycast architecture.
160Mbps Downloads Move Closer for US Cable CustomersThe National Cable & Telecommunications Association is holding its annual convention in Las Vegas (where else?) and this year, super-high-speed cable service is finally moving into the limelight.
I attended this event at the University of South Carolina. It was very interesting. I've got fuzzy cell phone video of most of the event, which I try to clean up and maybe "youtube" it (did they already make that a verb or do I just do it).
This just hit the web at large from CoreLabs Advisory, Core Security Technologies,
Everything you need to know about IPv6When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk with each other.
Unknowns remain in move to IPv6For the Air Force, the killer application for IPv6 might literally be a killer app. "Anything we can use to put bombs accurately on target is our goal with IPv6."
Addressing the new netWhat is the internet? To some it's a bottomless resource of text, images and video. To others it's an idea that connects the electronic world without barriers or censorship.
Video: Mark Pesce, father of Virtual Reality Markup LanguageIn this interview, Mark Pesce talks about the how the profound changes in technology consumption and distribution are likely to reshape the media landscape in the next couple of years.
Officials from defense and civilian agencies believe that in five years almost three-quarters of their technology components will be IPv6-enabled, according to a new survey.
Juniper Networks recently released the results of the second annual IPv6 Government Action Study, in which 1,076 people participated.
The CIO Council's IPv6 Working Group plans to submit to the Office of Management and Budget its recommendations on standards for the mandated IPv6 transition that is 19 months away, said Peter Tseronis, co-chair of the working group on Monday.
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