[Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Major Websites Commit to 24-Hour Test Flight for IPv6

[Carlos M. Martinez]

I like the idea

On 1/12/11 3:54 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote:
> yep  -  www.coisoc.org is on IPv6
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> I second the idea that chapters use this date as a target to become
> permanently IPv6 enabled (web and mail ideally).
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> ~Chris
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> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:49, Franck Martin <franck at avonsys.com> wrote:
>> www.picisoc.org is on IPv6 as well as www.sfbayisoc.org
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>> I suppose the Luxembourg chapter web site is on IPv6 too.
>>
>> Any other chapter has their site on IPv6? May be a good time for all
>> chapters to make that move?
>>
>> Great Initiative Leslie!
>>
>> Let's eat our own dog food in ISOC too ;)
>>
>> Franck Martin
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>> ________________________________
>> From: "Leslie Daigle" <daigle at isoc.org>
>> To: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
>> Sent: Thursday, 13 January, 2011 3:35:48 AM
>> Subject: [Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Major Websites Commit to
>> 24-Hour        Test Flight for IPv6
>>
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>>
>> Hi,
>> FYI -- drawing your attention to an announcement we've just made of a major
>> event we're coordinating for June this year.   I'm quite pleased that the
>> major content providers of the world are stepping up to do a visible test
>> drive of IPv6, and excited that we have the opportunity to coordinate the
>> activity.
>> This is a first announcement, and we'll be following up with more detailed
>> presentations at upcoming technical meetings.  As the announcement notes, we
>> are looking for more participation, and will be especially happy to get some
>> major non-US content providers signed up to participate.  It would be great
>> if you could help us identify willing content provider participants -- sign
>> up is available here:  https://www.isoc.org/isoc/contact/index.php?id=25
>> Leslie.
>>
>>
>> Major Websites Commit to 24-Hour Test Flight for IPv6
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>> “World IPv6 Day” to take place on June 8, 2011
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>> GENEVA, SWITZERLAND and RESTON, VIRGINIA, USA – 12 January 2011 – Facebook,
>> Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), websites with more than one
>> billion combined visits each day, are joining major content delivery
>> networks Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) and Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW), and
>> the Internet Society, for the first global-scale trial of the new Internet
>> Protocol, IPv6. On June 8, 2011, dubbed “World IPv6 Day,” participants will
>> enable IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours. With IPv4 addresses running
>> out this year, the industry must act quickly to accelerate full IPv6
>> adoption or risk increased costs and limited functionality online for
>> Internet users everywhere. The companies are coming together to help
>> motivate organizations across the industry—Internet service providers,
>> hardware manufacturers, operating system vendors and other web companies—to
>> prepare their services for the transition.
>>
>> The Internet Society is supporting World IPv6 Day as part of its efforts to
>> accelerate IPv6 deployment. “2011 is a pivotal year in IPv6 deployment, and
>> World IPv6 Day will prove to be an important milestone,” commented Leslie
>> Daigle, the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology officer. “By
>> providing an opportunity for the Internet industry to collaborate to test
>> IPv6 readiness we expect to lay the groundwork for large-scale IPv6 adoption
>> and help make IPv6 ready for prime time. The greater the scope of the trial,
>> the more effective it will be for all participants so we wholeheartedly
>> welcome additional participants.”
>>
>> IPv6, the successor to the protocol currently used on the Internet, was
>> designed in the late 1990s but has not seen deployment on a global scale.
>> With IPv4 address space running out, the industry cannot afford to wait much
>> longer.
>>
>> Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and co-inventor of the TCP/IP
>> protocol stack, commented, "In the short history of the Internet, the
>> transition to IPv6 is one of the most important steps we will take together
>> to protect the Internet as we know it. It's as if the Internet was
>> originally designed with a limited number of telephone numbers, and we're
>> soon going to run out." Google has offered a separate IPv6-only version of
>> search on ipv6.google.com since early 2008, and during World IPv6 Day the
>> company will enable IPv6 for its main websites, including www.google.com and
>> www.youtube.com.
>>
>> Given the diversity of technology that powers the Internet, the global
>> nature of the trial is crucial to identify unforeseen problems.
>> “Participating in World IPv6 Day will allow us to obtain real-life data that
>> we can use to ensure a seamless user experience as we transition to IPv6,”
>> said Adam Bechtel, Vice President for Yahoo’s Infrastructure Group. “We
>> welcome this opportunity to collaborate with the technical community and
>> provide leadership in addressing the scaling challenges facing the
>> Internet.”
>>
>> World IPv6 Day marks a key milestone in enabling more and more computers and
>> smart phones to come online. As more of the world moves online, IPv6 will be
>> critical for the Internet to reach its full potential as a catalyst for
>> growth, innovation and economic prosperity. IPv6 provides over four billion
>> times more addresses than IPv4, which will help connect the billions of
>> people not connected today.
>>
>> Facebook views the rollout of IPv6 as a critically important step to keep
>> the world connected. “As an industry, we're working together to ensure
>> future generations continue to have open and direct access to the Internet
>> as we do today," said Jonathan Heiliger, Vice President of Technical
>> Operations at Facebook. "The number of web-connected devices is exploding,
>> and World IPv6 Day is a crucial step in ensuring they can all communicate."
>>
>> Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a leading provider of cloud
>> optimization services, will enable customers to participate in World IPv6
>> Day. "IPv6 adoption is still in its infancy," said Harald Prokop, Senior
>> Vice President of Engineering at Akamai. "We stand ready to support
>> customers through this important trial, and believe that early planning and
>> testing will ensure a smooth transition to IPv6." To support the transition
>> to IPv6, Akamai customers will be able to seamlessly make their existing
>> websites available via IPv6 without requiring disruptive changes to their
>> origin networking infrastructure.
>>
>> Tom Coffeen, Director of Global Network Architecture for Limelight Networks,
>> said, "As part of our ongoing commitment to IPv6, Limelight Networks today
>> is actively delivering customer content over the world’s first fully
>> IPv6-compliant content delivery service. We are pleased to participate in
>> World IPv6 Day to encourage the adoption of IPv6 across the Internet and to
>> transform address resource challenges into innovation and competitive
>> advantage for our customers."
>>
>> One of the goals of World IPv6 Day is to expose potential issues under
>> controlled conditions and address them as soon as possible. The vast
>> majority of users should be able to access services as usual, but in rare
>> cases, misconfigured or misbehaving network equipment, particularly in home
>> networks, may impair access to participating websites during the trial.
>> Current estimates are that 0.05% of users may experience such problems, but
>> participating organizations will be working together with operating system
>> manufacturers, home router vendors and ISPs to minimize the number of users
>> affected. Participants will also be working together to provide tools to
>> detect problems and offer suggested fixes in advance of the trial.
>>
>> For more information about World IPv6 Day, how to get involved, and links to
>> useful information for users, visit www.internetsociety.org/worldipv6day.
>>
>> About the need for IPv6
>>
>> IPv4 has approximately four billion IP addresses (the sequence of numbers
>> assigned to each Internet-connected device). The explosion in the number of
>> people, devices and web services on the Internet means that IPv4 is running
>> out of space. IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol, which provides
>> over four billion times more space, will connect the billions of people not
>> connected today and will help ensure the Internet can continue its current
>> growth rate.
>>
>> About the Internet Society
>>
>> The Internet Society is a non-profit organisation founded in 1992 to provide
>> leadership in Internet-related standards, education and policy. It is
>> dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the
>> Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world. See
>> www.internetsociety.org
>>
>> Leslie Daigle
>> Chief Internet Technology Officer
>> Internet Society
>> daigle at isoc.org
>>
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