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

Wed Jan 12 15:01:45 PST 2011

Leslie, Anne,

It would be nice, if you could add an honor page listing Chapters who have their website on IPv6?

Just saying.

Franck Martin 
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Hill" <tony at keanyhill.wattle.id.au>
To: "Carlos M. Martinez" <carlosmarcelomartinez at gmail.com>
Cc: chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org
Sent: Thursday, 13 January, 2011 11:52:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] NEWS RELEASE: Major Websites Commit to	24-Hour Test Flight for IPv6

Yes.  ISOC-AU is on IPv6.

regards, Tony Hill

On 13/01/2011, at 4:58 AM, Carlos M. Martinez wrote:

> I like the idea
> 
> On 1/12/11 3:54 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote:
>> yep  -  www.coisoc.org is on IPv6
>> 
>> I second the idea that chapters use this date as a target to become
>> permanently IPv6 enabled (web and mail ideally).
>> 
>> ~Chris
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> http://www.avonsys.com/
>>> http://www.facebook.com/Avonsys
>>> twitter: FranckMartin Avonsys
>>> 
>>> Check your domain reputation: http://gurl.im/b69d4o
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> “World IPv6 Day” to take place on June 8, 2011
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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