Tag Archives: IPv6

Domain Name Registrars, Domain Name Registry

IPv6 Taskforce Trust formed in New Zealand

InternetNZ logoThe New Zealand IPv6 Taskforce has been registered as a Trust and charitable entity says the latest edition of The Browser, the monthly newsletter from InternetNZ, who manages .NZ as part of their duties.

The purpose of the Trust is to promote and support forums in New Zealand for education and sharing of knowledge about IPv6 and its adoption.

In other IPv6 news, The Broswer notes APNIC recently announced there are less than 10 percent of IPv4 addresses left available, and the activity of IPv6 taskforces globally is ramping up in response.

In New Zealand, the IPv6 Taskforce is focusing on helping different industry sectors, including health, education and government, to develop roadmaps for IPv6 adoption.

Planning is also underway for another New Zealand IPv6 event, to be held this year, and the taskforce is examining a range of possible new technical and general purpose IPv6 training options.

For more information, and for a copy of the New Zealand IPv6 Taskforce’s Action Plan please visit:
www.ipv6.org.nz

The above information was sourced from the February edition of The Browser. More information on internet happenings in New Zealand, not just related to domain names, can be found in The Broswer at:
www.internetnz.net.nz/media/browser/2010

Asia Registry logoTo register your .NZ domain name check out Asia Registry here.

ICANN and Governance, Opinion

IPv4 Addresses Near Exhaustion With Two to Three Years of Addresses Left

Predictions for the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses in 2010 by IANA will not come true reports Enterprise Networking Planet, but it will happen in the next two to three years.The reports comes from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week where the American Registry for Internet Names (ARIN) was advocating that vendors start making the move to IPv6 now.”We’re at about 10.2 percent (IPv4 address space) remaining globally,” John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN told InternetNews.com. “At our current trend rate we’ve got about 625 days before we will not have new IPv4 addresses available. We’re still handling IPv4 requests from ISPs, hosting companies and large users for IPv4 address space, but that’s a very short time period.”To read this Enterprise Networking Planet report in full, see:
www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsp/article.php/3857201

ICANN and Governance

Is the Transition to IPv6 a “Market Failure?”

Geoff Huston writes: Many views of the transition to IPv6 assume that the combination of the factors of the imminent exhaustion of the unallocated pool of IPv4 addresses and the conventional dynamics of an open competitive marketplace in the ISP sector will be sufficient to propel the transition to IPv6. The question I would like to pose here is: Is this an appropriate view of the transition to IPv6? An alternative view is that this transition to IPv6 has already stalled over the past decade, and we should be prepared to view the current situation as an instance of a “market failure” in economic terms, where the transition will require the impetus of some form of response associated with the distribution of a “public good”, and that conventional market dynamics are in and of themselves incapable of sustaining such a transition.To read this article by Geoff Huston in full, see his blog at:
www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2009-09/v6trans.html

ICANN and Governance

Is the Transition to IPv6 a "Market Failure?"

Geoff Huston writes: Many views of the transition to IPv6 assume that the combination of the factors of the imminent exhaustion of the unallocated pool of IPv4 addresses and the conventional dynamics of an open competitive marketplace in the ISP sector will be sufficient to propel the transition to IPv6. The question I would like to pose here is: Is this an appropriate view of the transition to IPv6? An alternative view is that this transition to IPv6 has already stalled over the past decade, and we should be prepared to view the current situation as an instance of a “market failure” in economic terms, where the transition will require the impetus of some form of response associated with the distribution of a “public good”, and that conventional market dynamics are in and of themselves incapable of sustaining such a transition. Continue reading Is the Transition to IPv6 a "Market Failure?" →

ICANN and Governance

NRO Paper Explains IPv6 – What Is It, Why Is It Important and Who Is In Charge?

The depletion of IPv4 addresses, and the transition to IPv6, has caught the attention of a “factual” paper from The Number Resource Organization, the body representing the four Regional Internet Registries.The paper explains what is IPv6. It gives a good analogy to help understand the magnitude of the number of addresses available in IPv6 when compared to IPv4. The paper says “IPv6 address space is huge and that to visualise it, to try comparing a golf ball (IPv4) to several times the planet (IPv6).The paper also notes that in the developed world there are around two IPv4 addresses used per head, and if this rate of use “was replicated throughout the world, a total of 12 billion addresses would be needed, an impossible achievement since IPv4 provides a maximum of just 4 billion addresses.”The paper also outlines how allocations of IP addresses are made and to whom, how IPv6 addresses are being allocated and a range of IP address-related other issues.To read the paper by the NRO, see:
nro.net/documents/nro50.html

Cybersecurity

North American ISPs grab more IPv6 addresses than ever, IPv4 demand slows

U.S. ISPs are requesting more IPv6 addresses and fewer IPv4 addresses than ever before — a sign that carriers are investing in the future amidst one of the deepest recessions in modern history, reports Network World.

The shift in IP address requests shows that North American carriers are getting ready for the long-anticipated upgrade of the Internet’s main communications protocol from IPv4, the current standard, to the next-generation IPv6.

To read this Network World report in full, see:
www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101909-ipv6-growth.html