It’s interesting to note that this week has heard official statements from Vietnam and Malaysia on their plans for migrating to IPv6.  As I said a week ago there are surprises to be found from the ASEAN countries in the race to IPv6.  This week also saw news from Kenya and the week before from [...]

Posted on 21 November 2008 | 11:43 am

There has been some interesting work done lately in regards to getting a better understanding about the status of the IPv6 deployments. The most famous on is probably Google’s measurement of how many nodes actually could access IPv6 content. This showed that 6to4 is the dominating technology. But looking at the data presented by Kurtis [...]

Posted on 20 November 2008 | 5:41 pm

There seem to be a common view, one example found here, that even if the IPv4 pool will run in about two years there will be plenty addresses available from space that isn’t actually being used today. There might be some truth in this perception but it won’t provide an easy fix to continue using IPv4. Unused [...]

Posted on 20 November 2008 | 5:14 pm

In their effort to prepare for, and move to IPv6 Google has started offering IPv6 connectivity to www.google.com, but there is a catch. In order to get an IPv6 address when querying Google your ISP has to be onboard and promise to help get IPv6 working in case people have problems accessing the Google website. [...]

Posted on 20 November 2008 | 11:55 am

Having been following IPv6 at the IETF meetings for a couple of years it is clear that IPv6 now is back as a hot topic after having been dormant for a while. Just a year or so ago it seemed IPv6 was becoming an integrated part in daily routine and all the IPv6 specific work [...]

Posted on 19 November 2008 | 3:13 pm

Looking at the latest IPv6 statistics it is pretty clear that there are plenty of IPv6 capable nodes out there but that a majority of them are being blocked by their home router. With the changes in Vista in the behaviour of Teredo, Vista computers now have to be forced to use IPv6 unless they [...]

Posted on 17 November 2008 | 2:10 pm

Having recently returned from my business trip I was able to spend a little more time catching up. I read Iljitsch van Beijnum’s article yesterday somewhat satisfied with one of the conclusions - IPv6 traffic is 100 times higher than the Arbor Networks’ estimate a few months ago. Being an IPv6 advocate, a quarter of [...]

Posted on 14 November 2008 | 10:57 am

I think there is something to be said for government intervention in free markets. Perhaps that’s pretty obvious given the current economic crisis but I’ve always held that view. Most of my American friends would still disagree with the principle – they’ve been calling me a socialist ever since I returned to Canada 11 years [...]

Posted on 12 November 2008 | 11:07 am