News

• IPv6: Dual-stack strategy starts at the perimeter

  We are in an awkward point in the history of the Internet. IPv4 address depletion has occurred yet we expect to use IPv4 for the next 15 to 20 years. Organizations see two paths before them. One alternative is to use continue to use IPv4 and expect to use multiple layers of network address translation (NAT) for many years to come. The other alternative is to start to use IPv6, however, the majority of enterprise organizations and content providers have not embraced the protocol.

• Internode turns on IPv6 for new customers

  Internode has become the first Australian broadband provider to make IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) available by default for new customers.

• IPv6 boosts schools' on-net security

  Cyberbullying may be more of an operational issue in schools than the outside hacking that enterprises face, but opaque IPv4 network configurations are causing security issues for both groups as organisations struggle to enforce administrative policies by reliably matching IP addresses and user identities.

• IPv6 - The devil you don't know...

  “Better the devil you know than the devil you don't”. No matter how bad something is, knowing about it is half the battle won. So when something new comes along, like IPv6, its very newness is an issue.

• Telstra rolls out IPv6 for business, government

  Telstra begun its roll out of Internet Protocol Version six (IPv6) for enterprise, government and wholesale customers. BigPond customers won't be offered IPv6 at this stage.

• IPv6 guide part 2: Budgeting for IPv6 migration

  Gartner estimates the cost of migrating an enterprise to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) could be as high as six per cent of the entire annual IT budget.

• 1

  IPv6 guide part 1: Slow migration to IPv6 a costly mistake

  Slow migration to Internet Protocol Version 6 could end up being a costly mistake for Australian enterprises, according to Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) vice-president, Narelle Clarke.

• Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after trial

  One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol on some of their key websites.

• World IPv6 Day: Tech industry's most-watched event since Y2K

  The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats tonight for the start of World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in 1999.

• Can't reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame

  A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonight and tomorrow, due to a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6.

• 3

  IPocalypse reports greatly exaggerated: Internode

  'Panic merchants' who predicted the end of the internet, as Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses run out, are as bad as the Y2K bug alarmists of 12 years ago, according to a local proponent of IPv6.

• 1

  Will World of Warcraft drive ISP IPv6 adoption?

  Whether IT networking boffins like it or not, one of the biggest drivers toward IPv6 adoption may turn out to be Blizzard’s massively online multiplayer monolith, World of Warcraft (WoW).

• Opinion: The IPv6 magic trick

  A magician in a long black coat walks out on stage. A voice booms: “The great Mephisto will now saw his beautiful assistant in half”. The audience breathes in. The saw cuts through the box. The magician pushes the two halves of the box containing his assistant apart. The transition from internet protocol version four (IPv4) to version six (IPv6) is much like this magic act. The Web that was once one is now two.

• Black markets sprout in IP address shortage

  With only days passed since the Asia Pacific regional internet registry initiated a severely reduced allocation policy for Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), ‘black’ markets have begun to appear for operators and address holders to trade address between themselves.

• 1

  Small ISPs losers as APNIC exhausts IPv4

  Developing economies and small ISPs are expected to be hardest hit by an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address rationing policy enacted this week by the Asia Pacific regional registry.