New Zealand IPv6 Task Force

Why should you care about IPv6 and what are the consequences of not having IPv6 support? Task Force Technical Convenor Dean Pemberton answers this most important of questions: The hard thing about IPv6 adoption is that there is no hard-date. It’s not like y2k where we had a date to work to.  The time when […]

Over the last few months, the IPv6 Task Force has been working on assessing the IPv6 readiness of New Zealand’s government agencies. A detailed report, titled ‘IPv6 state-sector adoption’,  has been prepared. A PDF version of the report can be downloaded at the link below: IPv6 state-sector adoption – Phase 1 Report  

Australian Internet service provider (ISP) Internode has given a shot in the arm to those of us promoting use of the next generation of Internet technology, Internet Protocol version 6. We need IPv6 to ensure all our computers and devices can readily communicate with each other. It provides for a massive number of direct addresses, like individual […]

Google sysadmin and network engineer Thomas Limoncelli recently penned an illuminating paper on ‘Successful Strategies for IPv6 Rollouts’. The paper, introduced by TCP-IP co-inventor and Internet luminary Vint Cerf, outlines practical steps that can be taken for an effective IPv6 transition. Cerf begins by wryly commenting on his choice of the 32-bit IPv4 address space. […]

At its July 2011 meeting the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force identified the availability of consumer Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) as a major inhibitor for the supply of IPv6 services from the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Telecommunication Service Provider (TSP) community in New Zealand. The reluctance to offer IPv6 capable services was identified from […]