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

Wed Jan 12 15:43:42 PST 2011

also ISOC Italy (www.isoc.it) is on IPv.6

best,
carlo

On 12/01/11 23.52, Tony Hill wrote:
> 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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