Come and see us at CIO Summit & Net Hui

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Asia Pacific region runs out of IPv4 Internet addresses

Media release – 18 April 2011 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 […]