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Big Changes in the IPv6 Landscape in 2012
If you've been working on IPv6 for awhile, 2012 should have given you encouragement that IPv6 is starting to have enough significant deployment in enough places that it is really finally happening. In...
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One Year On – What remains to be done with IPv6?
World IPv6 Launch was about turning IPv6 on by default, for websites, for ISPs and for equipment vendors, and leaving it turned on. As we discussed in Monday's post, this resulted in significant...
View ArticleIPv6 Deployment Hits 2%, Keeps Growing
This week the Internet passed a significant milestone in global IPv6 deployment: the percentage of users reaching Google services over IPv6 crossed the 2% threshold, according to Google's regularly...
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Rough Guide to IETF 88: All About IPv6
The Internet relies on a single addressing framework to have global reach and integrity. IPv4 address space is insufficient, and IPv6 has been developed by the IETF as its successor. IPv6 recently...
View ArticleGoogle IPv6 Traffic Passes 3% - Deployment Rate Accelerates
The Google IPv6 traffic graph (above) is one of the most watched barometers of global IPv6 deployment. This past weekend it crossed another round number – 3%. While 3% might not seem like a large...
View ArticleRough Guide to IETF 89: All About IPv6
The Internet relies on a single addressing framework to have global reach and integrity. IPv4 address space is insufficient, and the IETF developed IPv6 as its successor many years ago. IPv6 remains an...
View ArticlePresenting Global IPv6 Measurements This Week at World IPv6 Congress
This week I'm in Paris attending the World IPv6 Congress, along with some of my colleagues from our Deploy360 Programme. It's the premier event in the IPv6 landscape, and each year engineers from...
View ArticleIPv6 Traffic and Mobile Networks: Thoughts After World IPv6 Congress
Can we get more operators to share their IPv6 measurements? How many mobile operators are using an IPv6-only strategy for their networks? These were two of the questions we found ourselves discussing...
View ArticleBroadband Latin America - Building a Connected Society (Over IPv6, Of Course!)
Broadband networks are an important part of fulfilling our vision that the Internet is for Everyone. We have been active in the annual Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam for several years and this year...
View ArticleCelebrating World IPv6 Launch – Happy Second Launchiversary!
This week, on 6 June, we mark two years since World IPv6 Launch in 2012. It's worthwhile taking a moment to reflect on what has happened in those two years - there's a new infographic on the World IPv6...
View ArticleWorld IPv6 Launch Began Two Years Ago – Happy Launchiversary!
Today’s the day! It’s been two years since World IPv6 Launch in 2012, the day major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world...
View ArticleIPv4 is Really Almost Out - The Time for IPv6 is NOW
On our Deploy360 blog we’ve been documenting the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses in each of the regional registry pools around the world. Yesterday, LACNIC announced that practically speaking there are no...
View ArticleAttending the Big Telecom Event This Week? Talk to Us!
Where are the telecom giants on their paths to full IPv6 adoption? This week (on 17-18 June) we’ll be at the Big Telecom Event in Chicago trying to answer that question.We'll have booth PP503 in the...
View ArticlePervasive Internet Surveillance – The Technical Community’s Response (So Far)
A little over a year ago, we learned about pervasive monitoring and interception of Internet traffic by governments. The biggest surprise wasn’t that these tools and programs exist, but the scope and...
View ArticleGoogle's IPv6 Traffic Exceeds 4% - Deployment Picking Up Speed
It seems like only yesterday that we were talking about IPv6 passing 3% on Google's global IPv6 measurements. That was in February, and now, at the end of June, we find that the measurement has passed...
View ArticleISOC Rough Guide to IETF 90: Toronto, Eh?
IETF 90 is coming up next week, and as usual it’s going to be a very busy week here at the Internet Society. The IETF meets three times a year to discuss standards for the operation of the Internet....
View ArticleNew CEA Webinar Archive on IPv6 and Broadband
The Consumer Electronics Association has organized a series of webinars on IPv6, with the first one being this week on Tuesday, 12 August, on IPv6 and Broadband. I contributed an introduction from the...
View ArticleLinkedIn Permanently Enables IPv6 on Its Website
Today, LinkedIn permanently enabled IPv6 on its website, joining Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and millions of other sites that have enabled IPv6 permanently. This is great news!You can read the full...
View ArticleAkamai Adds IPv6 Trend Visualizations to State of the Internet Reporting
We are very pleased to see that today Akamai has started publishing a very detailed view of what they see for IPv6 usage on the Internet. Akamai has been contributing IPv6 measurements to our World...
View ArticleRough Guide to IETF 91: All About IPv6
IPv6 growth continues throughout the world, and the standardization work in the IETF reflects this growth and operational experience. Akamai and Google both publish ongoing statistics about IPv6...
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