New Zealand IPv6 Task Force

IT training firm Auldhouse is now offering a portfolio of IPv6 training courses, targeted at technical and executive audiences. There are three courses on offer, as follows: For Managers or anyone requiring an overview of transitioning to IPv6: IPv6 Overview – ½ Day For IT Professionals wishing to upgrade skills: Transitioning to IPv6 – 3 […]

The IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority – www.iana.org) has allocated the last IP address blocks from the global IPv4 central address pool, ending all debates over when this would happen. Several months remain before Regional Registries consume all their remaining regional IPv4 address pools, with recent trends suggesting that Asia, Europe, and North America will […]

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 […]

If your organisation is looking to adopt IPv6 the first steps can be difficult, particularly when the benefits are unclear and/or there is limited understanding of either the underlying requirements and possible solution(s). In many cases it could just be about identifying a pathway forward. Here is a suggested approach to get your initiative underway:

Only a small percentage of live addresses in the publicly accessible Internet use IPv6; the large majority use IPv4. However, deployments of the IPv6 protocol have already been made in Asia, North America and Europe. Federal government agencies in the United States for instance have been required to run IPv6 since mid-2008, and the Korean […]