Organised by the global Internet Society, ‘World IPv6 Launch’ aims to motivate organisations across industry – including Internet service providers, hardware makers, and web companies – to prepare for and switch on IPv6. This is a major step that will give confidence to all corporate, government, and small businesses to move to this next generation Internet addressing protocol.
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force fully backs World IPv6 Launch and has registered as a participating organisation. Task Force Convenor Murray Milner says the support the Launch has gained from such major service and content players is testament to the vital importance of IPv6 adoption.
“The clear message coming from World IPv6 Launch is to turn IPv6 on and leave it on. The world’s available pool of IPv4 addresses has dwindled to nothing and, without the addressing capabilities of IPv6, the Internet cannot continue to grow.”
In New Zealand, the IPv6 Task Force promotes the adoption of IPv6 throughout the Internet user, public sector and business communities. Milner says all New Zealand organisations should be acutely aware of and planning for IPv6 adoption on their internal networks. Not doing so is a very real business risk.
“For those that haven’t adopted IPv6, the biggest issue in the short term may be lack of access to parts of the global Internet. Some countries, notably India and China have already run out of IPv4 addresses and they are developing Internet applications using IPv6. Some of those applications will not be visible to New Zealand entities if they don’t have IPv6 capability.”
More information about the IPv6 Task Force and its activities is available at www.ipv6.org.nz. There is information about New Zealand’s overall state of IPv6 readiness and a Service Directory for helping organisations getting started on an IPv6 adoption path.
More details about World IPv6 Launch are available at www.worldipv6launch.org.
For further comment, please contact:
Murray Milner
Convenor
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force
027 443 0120
[email protected]
or
Dean Pemberton
Technical Convenor
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force
021 920 363
[email protected]
or
Donald Clark
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force
021 536 090
[email protected]
Government initiative:
InternetNZ has graciously provided funding for Donald Clark to work with the IPv6 Task Force on a part time basis through to mid December in order to provide a specific focus on Government adoption of IPv6. The initial focus will be on Central Government agencies and if time permits local and regional agencies will also be included. The goal is to have one-on-one discussions with the various agencies to determine adoption status and plans.
IPv6 coordinator:
The Task Force coordinator has been working on mapping IPv6 adoption across all sectors of industry in New Zealand. This mapping has resulted from a “State of the Nation” activity, itself based on Task Force survey data, one-on-one interactions and international data.
Another key focus has been the development of benchmark metrics that can be used to compare the progress with IPv6 adoption in New Zealand against that of other jurisdictions. This is no easy task. However, we are now focusing on a few key metrics and commencing the collection of data. The key metrics being considered currently include:
System integrators:
Another area of focus for the Task Force is the System Integrator community operating within New Zealand. To some extent this will be complementary to the Government initiative, but hopefully will also enable us to increase focus on IPv6 adoption within the wider enterprise sector. The aim is to encourage every interaction between system integrators and their clients to include a discussion on IPv6 adoption.
IPv6 events:
There are a number of events coming up, in which the Task Force will be participating, including:
ALGIM engagement:
The Task Force has completed a draft IPv6 whitepaper for ALGIM (the Association of Local Government Information Management). It is planned to release the Whitepaper through a keynote address to be presented by Murray at the ALGIM Conference in Taupo on 21 November this year. The Task Force has also been working with Tauranga City Council on a user case study.
IPv6 Forum:
The IPv4 address pool continues to diminish around the world with RIPE forecast to be the next region to drop below the single /8 threshold early next year.
A visit to the IPv6 Forum web page is well worth the effort from time to time. The front page offers access to plenty of global material on IPv6 applications, deployments and resources. It also has a meter showing global Internet traffic split between IPv4 and IPv6.
The IPv6 traffic is still not growing rapidly today, but various commentators are expecting a rapid increase over the next few years leading to a forecast of around 50% of global traffic by 2015.
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New Zealand IPv6 Task Force supports World IPv6 Day
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force put its weight behind World IPv6 Day in June, engaging in several promotional activities to help spread the IPv6 adoption message locally.
World IPv6 Day was a global event sponsored and organised by the international Internet Society (ISOC) and supported by numerous large content providers. The intent of the day was to encourage participants to test deployment of IPv6 on their public facing websites.
It ran over 24 hours, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (from 12 noon New Zealand time) on 8 June 2011.
World IPv6 Day aimed to motivate all organisations to present their services on both IPv4 and IPv6 for the entire 24 hour period. On the day major providers including Google, Facebook and Yahoo were among many global firms who took part.
Global impact of World IPv6 Day
Alongside the major content providers, over 400 other organisations signed up with ISOC . It is encouraging to note that many of their websites remain IPv6-enabled today.
www.worldipv6day.org/participants/index.html .
Note: ISOC maintains a list of over 700 websites that were already IPv6-enabled.
For a before-and-after overview of the IPv6 status of participating organisations visit www.mrp.net/WorldIPv6Day.html .
One of the interesting aspects about World IPv6 Day is that if everything went according to plan, then there would be no significant change in Internet experience for the average user. In this regard World IPv6 Day was an unmitigated success. Some of the largest content providers on the Internet were able to enable IPv6 on their services with little to no impact on their customers.
According to Wikipedia, “the Day passed according to plan and without significant problems for the participants. Cisco and Google reported no significant issues during the test. Facebook called the results encouraging, and decided to leave their developer site IPv6-enabled as a result. But the consensus was that more work needed to be done before IPv6 could consistently be applied”.
For its part, the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force:
• Registered with ISOC as a supporting organisation and strongly encouraged all New Zealand content providers and ISPs to also take part.
• Spoke at a video seminar entitled ‘IPv6 through the crystal ball. What a future with IPv6 might look like’.
• Spoke to NZ Tech Podcast about World IPv6 Day and the critical importance of local IPv6 adoption. http://nztechpodcast.com/nz-tech-podcast-episode-14
• Repeated its survey of IPv6 readiness in New Zealand, with preliminary results made available on World IPv6 Day.
• Promoted the ‘IPv6 Check’ widget, accessible at www.ipv6.org.nz
• Worked with Task Force members FX Networks and Fujitsu NZ to live-stream the dawn of World IPv6 Day (NZT) with an IPv6-enabled web-cam.
• Task Force member TelstraClear made its main websites accessible via IPv6 on World IPv6 Day. It also assisted with enabling IPv6 on the Flybuys website.
• ICT services firm Gen-i (on behalf of Task Force member Telecom) launched a target dual-stack test webpage for World IPv6 Day, along with a link to an information page – www.ipv6test.co.nz.
• On World IPv6 Day there was a 400 percent increase in visits to the Task Force’s website and a significant increase in the amount of IPv6 traffic traversing the .nz name space. The namespace graphs are available at www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/06/09/world-ipv6-day-sees-increase-in-v6-traffic-to-nz
• There was also a steady stream of social media on Twitter and local media coverage as a result of Task Force press releases. Articles ran in print, audio and television: www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/06/08/nz-media-coverage-world-ipv6-day
Surveys indicate increased IPv6 awareness
Awareness of IPv6 has reached a near universal level among New Zealand’s large public and private sector organisations, but there are still significant challenges in attaining widespread IPv6 adoption, especially amongst government agencies.
94 percent of respondents to a recent survey of public and private sector Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are ‘adequately to well-informed’ about what IPv6 is and how it works. This compares with 72 percent in 2010 and 54 percent in 2009.
The third annual ‘CIO survey’ was conducted earlier this year by the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force in an effort to assess the IPv6-readiness of New Zealand’s largest organisations.
The IPv6 Task Force also recently surveyed New Zealand telecommunications carriers and service providers to understand how well prepared they are to cope with the IPv6 transition.
Disappointingly, only 46 percent of respondents to that survey provide IPv6-enabled products and services. But in a nod to the importance of IPv6, 75 percent have a test environment for IPv6 and 71 percent have made efforts to ‘evaluate’ IPv6 support and features in consumer premises equipment such as home routers and modems.
Read more at:
www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/07/14/media-release-surveys-indicate-increased-ipv6-awareness
A full summary of the survey results is available at:
www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/07/14/ipv6-task-force-surveys-enterprise-industry-readiness
NZ Government updates list of IPv6-accessible sites
New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs has updated its list of Government websites that have a quad A record. The updated list includes the Tauranga City Council site and some other websites maintained by the City Council, including City on it’s Feet, Baycourt Community and Arts Centre and Historic Village on 17th.
The DIA says “many other linked Tauranga City Council web sites are also IPv6 accessible”.
The list also notes several dual-stacked websites maintained by New Zealand’s Ministry for Culture & Heritage, including:
• Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
• New Zealand History
• 28th Maori Battalion
• ANZAC
• Vietnam War
• Cultural Well-Being
IPv6 features at CIO Summit & NetHui 2011
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force maintained a presence at the CIO Summit and NetHui events in late-June, sharing a sponsor booth with NZICT. This proved an ideal opportunity to network with New Zealand CIOs and the Internet community.
NetHui 2011 featured a discussion session facilitated by IPv6 Task Force Convenor Murray Milner. The session – entitled ‘IPv6: How real is the issue and what’s the role of government and industry’ – was well-attended by a group of curious NetHui participants.
Formal notes from the session are available at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JaxlP9dcd_GG2AtwJJnbNGpAKUtRbAX4Arlc6lKPnro/edit?pli=1
A video recording of the session is available at the following link, from 49:00 onward:
http://www.livestream.com/nethui2011innovation/video?clipId=pla_94bf799a-7626-43cc-a9a0-c8f9203ac420&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb
ANZIA Awards – enter your IPv6 initiative now!
Are you a New Zealand-based individual or organisation that has implemented or promoted IPv6 lately? If so, then the NZ IPv6 Task Force encourages you to enter the upcoming ANZIA Awards.
The Australia and New Zealand Internet Awards (ANZIAs) are a collaboration between InternetNZ and auDA. The awards are an annual event celebrating the achievements of organisations, businesses and individuals that have made significant contributions to the development and use of the Internet in Australia and New Zealand.
This year the ANZIAs features a category devoted to initiatives that facilitate or promote the uptake of IPv6 in New Zealand or Australia.
Read more at: www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/07/11/anzia-awards-enter-your-ipv6-initiative-now
Tauranga City Council enables IPv6
IPv6 has been enabled on 15 websites hosted at Tauranga City Council (TCC). The Council uses FX Networks to connect to the Internet, which provides connectivity to native IPV6. In addition to the IPV6 enablement of its web-facing services, changes to equipment on the Council’s internal LAN are being made to enable IPv6.
Old switches nearing the end of their life are being replaced with equipment from Extreme Networks offering full support for IPV6. Some internal networks across the organisation have been enabled for IPv6. Dual-stack technology is being used to enable both IPV4 and IPV6 use.
Read more at: www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/06/07/tauranga-city-council-enables-ipv6
DTS goes native
In late May, Wellington-based Internet Service Provider DTS announced it was natively IPv6-capable (internationally). DTS made the announcement via Twitter.
DTS has also adopted IPv6 on its critical internet facing systems including core, border, and edge routers, DNS, mail and web systems.
Asia-Pacific region leads IPv6 adoption
Global research firm Ovum claims that enterprise customers in the Asia Pacific region feel more “urgency” to move to IPv6 than those in other parts of the globe.
That urgency has largely been driven by the recent announcement from APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) that the free pool of IPv4 addresses in the Asia Pacific region has effectively been exhausted, it says.
“The Asia-Pacific is the top growth region in the world, manufactures many electronic devices and many companies see this as their key expanding region. And many enterprise customers are doing business with a vendor/customer in this region which will influence by the faster pace of IPv6 adoption globally,” says Ovum.
Read more at: www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/07/14/asia-pacific-region-leads-ipv6-adoption-ovum
APNIC launches IPv6 tracker
The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has launched a new tool to provide information on the IPv6 readiness of websites in networks.
“It is a simple script that utilizes Google Analytics to measure the visitors on both your and your clients’ websites,” says APNIC.
“The reporting will allow you to make better decisions on improving IPv6 readiness within your networks. APNIC will produce a report on the aggregate data collected from this tracker to help provide you with information on the progress of IPv6 deployment in the Asia Pacific region”.
Broadband Forum and IPv6 Forum Work Together to Accelerate Global Activation of IPv6
In a statement in June the Broadband Forum and the IPv6 Forum announced their cooperative effort to empower the successful adoption of IPv6 in broadband deployments worldwide.
This effort will “[create] the ecosystem that will ensure the continued success of the Internet as new applications and user expectations grow beyond the bounds of the IPv4 protocol,” says the statement.
The two organisations are collaborating to incorporate Broadband Forum network and testing specifications into the IPv6 Forum’s Certification Program.
]]>Awareness of the critically-important IPv6 addressing protocol has reached a near universal level among New Zealand’s large public and private sector organisations, but significant challenges remain in attaining widespread IPv6 adoption, especially amongst government agencies.
IPv6 is the ‘next-generation’ method of Internet addressing and will radically transform the Internet, fuelling its future growth and innovation. It is being formally adopted worldwide as the number of existing IPv4 addresses dries up.
94 percent of respondents to a recent survey of public and private sector Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are ‘adequately to well-informed’ about what IPv6 is and how it works. This compares with 72 percent in 2010 and 54 percent in 2009.
The third annual ‘CIO survey’ was conducted earlier this year by the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force in an effort to assess the IPv6-readiness of New Zealand’s largest organisations.
97 percent of survey respondents are aware that the Asia Pacific region has now effectively run out of IPv4 addresses. In 2010, 91 percent of respondents were aware of the impending IPv4 exhaustion; in 2009 that figure was 70 percent.
Encouragingly, the number of respondents who indicate they will upgrade their public Internet services, including websites, to handle IPv6 has increased. 61 percent indicate this will occur within 1-2 years, compared with 39 percent in 2010 and 25 percent in 2009. However, 50 percent still have ‘no plans’ to deploy IPv6 on their internal networks. This compares with 54 percent with no plans in 2010 and 57 percent in 2009.
For medium to large enterprises an important part of transitioning to IPv6 is obtaining hardware and software that supports the new addressing protocol. Recognising this important fact 76 percent of respondents have indicated IPv6 is ‘very to extremely important’ when making purchasing decisions. This compares with 50 percent in 2010 and 29 percent in 2009.
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force also recently surveyed New Zealand telecommunications carriers and service providers to understand how well prepared they are to cope with the IPv6 transition.
Disappointingly, only 46 percent of respondents to that survey provide IPv6-enabled products and services. But in a nod to the importance of IPv6, 75 percent have a test environment for IPv6 and 71 percent have made efforts to ‘evaluate’ IPv6 support and features in consumer premises equipment such as home routers and modems.
88 percent of service providers do not provide general information for their residential customers about IPv6, but 50 percent do have the capability to provide business customers with IPv6 planning information.
Task Force Convenor Murray Milner says the survey results clearly show that IPv6 awareness, strategy and planning is alive and well in New Zealand, but turning that awareness into actual adoption still remains a challenge. The lack of IPv6 service availability from Internet Service Providers and telecommunications carriers is also acting as a major brake on adoption, he says.
“The Task Force is now shifting its focus to issues of IPv6 adoption and identifying and helping to address the factors limiting uptake. In the consumer space, for instance, the lack of affordable CPE that supports IPv6 is an immense constraint.
“In the public sector sphere we continue to work closely with the Department of Internal Affairs, promoting the benefits of IPv6 adoption to government agencies and are working with local government body ALGIM preparing a White Paper on the adoption of IPv6 across the local government sector.”
More information about the Surveys, including full summaries of both, is available at http://tinyurl.com/69tgj8z .
More information about the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force’s activities is available at www.ipv6.org.nz .
For further comment please contact:
Dr Murray Milner
Convenor
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force
027 443 0120
[email protected]
APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is now implementing austerity measures, in which the remaining few IPv4 addresses are rationed to its members only. New Zealand IPv6 Task Force Convenor Murray Milner says complete exhaustion is now only a matter of time.
Read more at http://tinyurl.com/4xyrt5o
IPv6 – Pressure growing on industry to act
2011 is turning into a crunch year for adopting the new standard for Internet addressing, called IPv6. At the same time, with zero Government funding, industry groups are under increasing pressure. The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force and InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) are stepping up to the challenge but are calling for more help.
Read more at http://tinyurl.com/6fnklqb
Media zeros in on IPv6
In recent weeks IPv6 has hit the headlines, with local media renewing its interest in IP address exhaustion. Read and listen at the links below:
IPv4 addresses down to last block – rationing starts (Computerworld New Zealand)
www.computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/ipv4-addresses-down-to-last-block-rationing-starts
Who’s in and who’s not now we’re out of IPv4 addresses (National Business Review)
www.nbr.co.nz/article/whos-and-whos-not-now-were-out-ipv4-addresses-aw-91107
No More Internets? Oh Noes! (95bFM)
http://tinyurl.com/4usk8p9 (audio)
Read more at http://tinyurl.com/6e4xzfy
Come and see us at CIO Summit & NetHui
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force will be out in force at two upcoming ICT events – the CIO Summit and NetHui – promoting recent Task Force activity and encouraging organisations to adopt IPv6.
The CIO Summit is being held in Auckland on 27 and 28 June 2011 and the Task Force is teaming up with NZICT to have an exhibitor stand at the event. The stand will also feature at the InternetNZ-hosted NetHui also, being held from 29 June to 1 July.
Drop by and ask us about IPv6!
Read more at http://tinyurl.com/684bdlr
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force supports World IPv6 Day
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force announces its support for World IPv6 Day, set for 8 June 2011.There will be a number of events held on this day around the world, with major web companies coming together to enable IPv6 on their main websites for 24 hours.
http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day
IPv6 – Light at the End of the Tunnel
The Canadian IPv6 Summit was held in late April, with an illuminating keynote presentation given by Owen DeLong of Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric. DeLong’s keynote, titled ‘IPv6 – Light at the End of the Tunnel’ focused, among other issues, on the viability of carrier grade NAT.
He noted that while NAT is the only alternative to IPv6 with any traction, there are very few test implementations and instant messaging and VOIP are severely impaired or non-functional in all implementations.
Read more at http://tinyurl.com/69eesyz
NTIA releases IPv6 Readiness Tool for Businesses
The IPv6 Readiness Tool for Businesses is a comprehensive checklist for businesses preparing to deploy and adopt IPv6. The tool was developed by experts from industry and the Internet technical community in response to a call from U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra at an IPv6 workshop hosted by the NTIA in September 2010.
www.ntia.doc.gov/advisory/IPv6/index.html
www.ntia.doc.gov/advisory/IPv6/IPv6_Readiness_Template_v1_2.xlsx
Read more at http://tinyurl.com/66lyo3t
]]>The CIO Summit is being held in Auckland on 27 and 28 June 2011 and the Task Force is teaming up with NZICT to have an exhibitor stand at the event. The stand will also feature at the InternetNZ-hosted NetHui also, being held from 29 June to 1 July.
Drop by and ask us about IPv6!
www.brightstar.co.nz/conferences/2011-new-zealand-cio-summit
]]>The organisation that manages Internet address allocation for the Asia Pacific region has announced that it has no more IPv4 Internet addresses available for general allocation.
APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is now implementing austerity measures, in which its remaining few IPv4 addresses are rationed to its members only.
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force Convenor Murray Milner says complete exhaustion is now only a matter of time.
“Once exhaustion occurs the rapidly growing economies of the Asia Pacific region will have little option but to grow their Internet services and applications using IPv6 – the next generation Internet addressing protocol.”
The message to New Zealand businesses is clear, says Milner. “The growth of the IPv6-based Internet is about to develop rapidly. Even if you have plenty of IPv4 addresses available to expand your business in New Zealand, your customers and suppliers in Asia don’t have the same opportunity.
“Over the coming months, an increasing part of the Internet will become invisible to you if you don’t take steps to embrace IPv6.
“This is not a cause for panic, but now is the time for organisations to act to adopt IPv6 on their networks.
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force takes a leadership role in supporting adoption of IPv6 in New Zealand. For more information on the activities of the Task Force, and for assistance with IPv6 implementation planning, please visit www.ipv6.org.nz .
For more information contact:
Murray Milner
Convenor
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force
027 443 0120
[email protected]
2011 is turning into a crunch year for adopting the new standard for Internet addressing, called IPv6. At the same time, with zero Government funding, industry groups are under increasing pressure. The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force and InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) are stepping up to the challenge but are calling for more help.
The number of IPv4 Internet addresses available to countries in the Asia Pacific region, which includes New Zealand, has reached a critically low level. APNIC – the regional organisation that allocates addresses – now expects to exhaust its remaining supply of IPv4 addresses within weeks.
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force Convenor Murray Milner says there appears to have been “a run on the bank”. He says the speed at which APNIC’s reserves have been depleted has taken many by surprise.
Milner says that “2011 is the crunch year for Internet addressing. Now is the time for organisations to act to adopt IPv6 on their networks.”
The IPv6 Task Force has taken a leadership role in supporting adoption of IPv6 in New Zealand. It offers valuable assistance to industry sectors to minimise risk and cost of IPv6 adoption, in the face of IPv4 exhaustion.
The Ministry of Economic Development (MED) has discontinued funding of the IPv6 Task Force, preferring a purely industry-led response instead. InternetNZ has been a consistent supporter of the IPv6 Task Force and has therefore increased the amount of funding it provides to help plug the gap.
“The efforts of the Task Force are critical to the future growth of the Internet in New Zealand,” says InternetNZ Chief Executive Vikram Kumar. “We have stepped up our annual funding of the Task Force by about 30% to $90,000 to enable it to continue its fantastic efforts.
“However, even with that, the Task Force really needs the wider industry to pitch in. Many industry organisations and individuals are making a significant contribution but now is the time to respond to the dual challenge of zero Government funding and imminent IPv4 address exhaustion,” he says.
“Now is also the time for Government to act as a leader in deploying IPv6. I acknowledge that the Government will not go down the path of forced implementation or setting target dates as has done by some other countries. There is some great work being done in leading by example but there is room for more, such as publication of an IPv6 roadmap for Government departments.”
Organisations are urged to contact the Task Force for more information and for assistance in kick-starting their own IPv6 planning and implementation processes.
For more information contact:
Vikram Kumar
Chief Executive
InternetNZ
021 937 211
[email protected]
or
Murray Milner
Convenor
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force
027 443 0120
[email protected]
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 exhaust in that order within a month or two on either side of July 1, 2011.
The prediction for exhaustion of the remaining IPv4 addresses held by the regional registries is now the subject of debate.
The Regional Registry for the Asia Pacific region – APNIC – is predicted to run out first, sometime around the middle of this year. The exact outcome will depend on many factors which are difficult to predict at this time, but this timeframe provides a useful guide.
It should also be emphasised that exhaustion in the APNIC region is driven by the needs of our Asian neighbours, including India and China, rather than ourselves. However, it does put pressure on the adoption of IPv6 in New Zealand in order to stay in touch with our neighbours.
www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/02/04/iana-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force launches online Service Directory
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force has launched an online Service Directory to help organisations with transition planning and adoption of IPv6 – the next generation Internet addressing protocol.
The Service Directory contains a list of New Zealand-based vendors, trainers, consultants, service providers and IT integrators who have expertise in IPv6. It can be found on the Task Force’s website at www.ipv6.org.nz.
www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/03/21/new-zealand-ipv6-task-force-launches-online-service-directory
Broadband Forum approves IPv6 specs for CPE
The global Broadband Forum has recently approved a series of technical reports, one of which relates to IPv6 and CPE (consumer premises equipment). The Forum has also flagged IPv6 as an area of “strategic importance” for 2011.
John Tanner from telecomasia.net says the new CPE specs promise to clear a key hurdle for broadband service providers to provide IPv6 support to customers. Read his full report below:
www.telecomasia.net/content/forum-releases-ipv6-specs-broadband-cpe?src=related
www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/03/25/broadband-forum-approves-ipv6-specs-for-cpe
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force supports World IPv6 Day
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force announces its support for World IPv6 Day, set for 8 June 2011.
There will be a number of events held on this day around the world, with major web companies coming together to enable IPv6 on their main websites for 24 hours.
http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day
The Task Force is planning a series of activities for World IPv6 Day. Stay tuned for further details.
www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/03/28/new-zealand-ipv6-task-force-supports-world-ipv6-day
New Zealand IPv6 Task Force endorses procurement guidelines
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force has given its seal of approval to two IPv6-specific procurement guidelines.
The Task Force’s preferred guideline is that issued by the Tasmanian Government. However, the Task Force also endorses the more comprehensive RIPE procurement guideline as an alternative for those who require more detail.
Copies of both these guidelines are available on the Task Force’s website and New Zealand organisations are encouraged to make use of these when considering purchasing ICT equipment.
www.ipv6.org.nz/links
www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/03/28/new-zealand-ipv6-task-force-endorses-procurement-guidelines
Auldhouse offers IPv6 courses
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 Days
For Cisco Engineers requiring IPv6 training:
IPv6 Fundamentals, Design and Deployment – 5 Days
For more information and to register please refer to the link below:
www.auldhouse.co.nz
Check out the training page of the Task Force’s website to read more about the Task Force’s approach to IPv6 training: www.ipv6.org.nz/training
www.ipv6.org.nz/2011/02/15/auldhouse-offers-ipv6-courses
More about the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force is an across-industry group that has been in existence since November 2009. It boasts a 30-strong membership, comprising representatives from telecommunications carriers, internet service providers, ICT vendors, and industry and user associations.
Aligned with the Global IPv6 Forum, the Task Force’s work is driven by the exhaustion of IPv4 addressing and the risk and cost that this is expected to impose on New Zealand organisations.
The Task Force is convened by independent technology consultant Dr Murray Milner and is supported by Internet New Zealand. The Task Force’s technical lead is Dean Pemberton, a senior consultant with Wellington-based Prophecy Networks.
The Task Force meets regularly to refine its IPv6 action plan and discuss strategies in regards to industry engagement, IPv6 promotion and implementation planning.
New members are welcome. If you are interested in joining the Task Force please email [email protected].
To facilitate discussion on New Zealand-related IPv6 issues the Task Force maintains two public mailing lists, which you can subscribe to below:
IPv6 Public Mailing List: for general IPv6 discussion
http://mailman.internetnz.net.nz/mailman/listinfo/ipv6_maillist
IPv6 Technical Mailing List: for technical IPv6 discussion
http://mailman.internetnz.net.nz/mailman/listinfo/ipv6-techsig
To find out more about the Task Force visit the following link and follow us on Twitter.
www.ipv6.org.nz/about
Twitter – @NZIPv6
The Task Force’s preferred guideline is that issued by the Tasmanian Government. However, we also endorse the more comprehensive RIPE procurement guideline as an alternative for those who require more detail.
Copies of both these guidelines are available on the Task Force’s website and we encourage New Zealand organisations to make use of these when considering purchasing ICT equipment.
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