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Media release: 2011 is the year of IPv4 exhaustion

Media release – 2 February 2011 The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force advises that 2011 is the year when allocations of IPv4 addresses from the world’s Internet address registries will be exhausted. “For those organisations that are yet to adopt the replacement IPv6 protocol on their networks, now is the time to move,” says Task […]

Importance of IPv6 Readiness for Service Providers and Enterprises

This week’s NZNOG Conference featured a useful presentation on IPv6 Readiness from Skeeve Stevens of Sydney-based networking firm eIntellego. eIntellego specialises in networking infrastructure audits and reports, of which IPv6 forms an important part. His presentation, titled ‘Preparing for the Inevitable’, stressed how best to prepare for the all-important transition to IPv6. Important in the […]

Department of Internal Affairs launches IPv6 website

Government Technology Services, a business group of the Department of Internal Affairs, has launched an IPv6 website as a proof of concept to demonstrate how New Zealand government websites can be made accessible to the IPv6 Internet. As part of this proof of concept Government Technology Services has set up an IPv6 address schema and […]

Register now for IPv6 deployment workshop

The NZNOG11 Conference in January will feature an IPv6 Deployment Workshop for those who are looking to, or who have started to deploy IPv6 in their network.  And that’s everyone, right? As this is a practical workshop, there is a maximum number of 28 participants.  Register early to avoid disappointment! http://2011.nznog.org/ipv6 http://2011.nznog.org/register Dates: Monday 24th […]

“New Internet” message not getting through to business managers – Survey

The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force and InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) are concerned that the message about adopting the new Internet Protocol, IPv6, is still not getting through to leading enterprise managers in New Zealand (survey shows 71% unaware) , although there is increased understanding of the issues at a technical management level (74% […]