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PacIP6 2007: First Pacific Islands IPv6 Summit
PacIP6 2007 - the first Pacific Islands IPv6 Summit - was held during PacINET 2007, the Pacific Island region's largest ICT conference in Honiara, Solomon Islands from August 15th to 16th.
Over 200 delegates attended PacIP6 2007. The first day addressed the latest developments in the IPv6 world and the second day was devoted to hands-on IPv6 training provided by Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). The training programme proved to be very popular and was repeated later in the week due to popular demand. Some 70 individuals from the region participated in the training programme.
IPv6 Roundup: 5 July, 2007
In the News (see below for From the Blogosphere)
Agencies, start your protocols!
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
The CIO Council's IPv6 working group has established three criteria for successfully meeting the mandate to enable the next generation of IP on agency ....
UNH-IOL Advances Public Safety Agencies' Interoperable ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Utilizing Moonv6, the world's largest multi-vendor IPv6 network, UNH-IOL launched the nation's first interoperable communications network for first ...
IPv6 D-Day is coming up fast
PCWorld.co.nz - New Zealand
This means that unless ISPs and enterprises start moving to IPv6, those ISPs will be unable to sign on new customers and enterprises will be unable, ...
ICANN Ponders International Domain Names
PC World - USA
The meeting also included a discussion on continuing to encourage IPV6 use. That's particularly important now because ICANN has determined the current ...
IP address timebomb
Times Online - UK
To try to counteract it, they devised a new IP protocol called IP version 6, or IPv6. We currently use the rapidly dwindling IPv4 protocol, which once had ...
Application Acceleration Switch supports IPv6 protocol
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York,NY,USA
June 28, 2007 - Based on Advanced Core Operating System architecture, AX Series supports dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 server load balancing, with management ...
Comcast Eyes Gradual Move to DOCSIS 3.0
Multichannel News (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
DOCSIS 3.0, besides providing much greater bandwidth capacity, also provides support for IPv6, the next-generation Internet-protocol-addressing scheme. ...
Weekly IPv6 Roundup: 12 June, 2007
In the News (see below for From the Blogosphere)
Where eight network management vendors stand on IPv6
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 06/07/07 With the June 2008 deadline for federal agencies to support IPv6 only a year away, network management ...
IPv6 management tools lacking
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 06/07/07 An increasing number of network monitoring and management tools support IPv6, but these products often ...
WCPE Celebrates Mozart in June
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
WCPE's 24/7 live broadcast of Great Classical Music can be accessed around the globe in several ways; on-line streaming in multiple formats, including IPv6, ...
Edge-Core launches IPv6 Managed Switch series
China Post - Taipei,Taiwan
Edge-Core, a world-wide leading professional networking solution provider, is showcasing its full-range IPv6-featured L2/3/4 Managed Switches during ...
Modulo Participating in IPv6 Conference
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
IPv6 supports a 128-bit addressing scheme, which lets it support an order-of-magnitude more devices that are directly connected to the internet than its ...
Is the US Ready For The IPv6 Challenge
IT Management - Darien,CT,USA
By Sean Michael Kerner One year from now the US government will be running IPv6 (define) across its IT infrastructure. Maybe. In the third volume of its ...
TITLE: SafeNet Products "IPSecDrv.sys" IPv6 Support Denial of Service
SecuObs - France
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the IPv6 support in "IPSecDrv.sys" and can be exploited to cause an infinite loop via a specially crafted ...
Weekly IPv6 Roundup: 5 June, 2007
In the News (see below for From the Blogosphere)
Streaming21 Unveils Next Generation IP Broadcasting Solution
ClickPress (press release) - UK
The solution also support IPv4/IPv6 dual stack network to enable IPTV anytime, anywhere. Streaming21's Media Relay Server 2.0 is a fully open platform which ...
IPv4-to-IPv6
IT-Business - Augsburg,Bayern,Germany
While deployments of IPv6 networks have increased over recent years interest in IPv6 in North America has been lacklust. This white paper will present an ...
Juniper Networks Announces Volume III of the IPv6 World Series Report
TMCnet - USA
Volume III of the IP6 World Series Report, An Essential US Government Agency Transition Guide to IPv6 Routing and Addressing is now available from Juniper ...
VNPT doubles network capacity
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
US Government officials require that all products purchased for the DoD's transmission of backbone networks from IPv4 to IPv6 must be from the products list ...
Weekly IPv6 Roundup: 22 May, 2007
In the News (see below for From the Blogosphere)
IPv6 For Small Business?
CInternetNews.com - USA
The answer is IPv6 (define), but that's for the federal government and big business to deal with and is not something that smaller enterprise or even home ...
IPv6 For Small Business Arrives
Small Business Computing - USA
The proposed solution is an expanded protocol called IPv6, but because this is technology, and therefore inherently incapable of being simple, IPv4 and IPv6 ...
ARIN Board Advises Internet Community on Migration to IPv6
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
IPv6 is a replacement for IPv4, offering far more IP addresses and enhanced security features. To date, ARIN has performed technical coordination of both ...
Media-On-Demand Solution promotes IPTV service deployment
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York,NY,USA
It includes HD support for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and H.264 video formats and also enables multiple video applications over IPv4/IPv6 dual stack network for ...
IPv6 – Ready for Prime Time? Part V: IPv4-to-IPv6 Transition Tech
Enterprise IT Planet - Darien,CT,USA
In our previous tutorial, we examined a number of vendors that have implemented IPv6 capabilities on their products However, receiving the assurance from a ...
Carbon Project’s CEO Presents Success Story at IPv6 Conference
GISuser.com (press release) - Frederick,MD,USA
Where 2.0 takes place May 29-30, 2007 at the Fairmont in San Jose, California. The third annual O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, ...
Weekly IPv6 Roundup: 15 May, 2007
In the News (see below for From the Blogosphere)
Tech Mahindra clicks on IPV6
CIOL - Bangalore,Karnatak,India
PUNE: Tech Mahindra is channelising its vision and development team in some new technology areas and IPv6 figures the top among them. ...
IETF Moves to Fix Critical IPv6 Security Flaw
CSO - Framingham,MA,USA
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) engineers, reacting with unusual speed, have moved to address a serious security lapse in IPv6 before it becomes too ...
Two China Next Generation Internet projects pass testing as IPv6 ...
Interfax.cn (subscription) - China
INTERFAX-CHINA - Two major projects being developed as part of the China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) network, the country's first commercial IPv6 ...
IPv6 Flaw Could Greatly Amplify DDoS Attacks
Slashdot - USA
tygerstripes writes "The Register has a story about the discovery of a flaw in part of the IPv6 specification which has experts scrambling to have the ...
Modulo Participating in IPv6 Conference
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
The event theme, 'Success in Building and Securing the Next-Generation IPv6-enabled Internet,' will focus on the benefits of the new IPv6 protocol and will ...
IETF Engineers Propose Disconnecting Vulnerable IPv6 Feature
BetaNews - USA
At a security conference in Vancouver last month, a demonstration entitled "Fun with IPv6 Routing Headers" effectively convinced engineers that the problem ...
Command Information Leverages the Power of IPv6 for Combat ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
CommandInformation.com), the largest and fastest-growing IPv6 solutions provider, will demonstrate the solution today at "The New New Internet: IPv6 ...
Weekly IPv6 Roundup: 8 May, 2007
In the News (see below for From the Blogosphere)
Enterprise Hosting Managed Network Firm, NTT America, Hosts...
TheHostingNews.com (press release) - Milwaukie,OR,USA
As one of the industry's premier IPv6 events, the conference promotes education and awareness of the mandatory federal government migration to an IPv6 ...
Juniper Networks Routers First To Be Certified IPv6 Capable By ...
TechWhack - New Delhi,Delhi,India
The IPv6 Capable Special Interoperability Certification of Juniper Networks products were administered by the DoD Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) ...
A Closer Look at IPv6
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
Harrisonburg, VA has made headlines for its work towards becoming the first city with a citywide IPv6 network but what does it mean to be a trailblazer in ...
IPv6: Ready or Not
PC Magazine - USA
"We're doing [both IPv4 and the next-generation IPv6 networks], and we anticipate doing both for a number of years," said Fred Wettling, a Bechtel Fellow ...
Fedora Security Update Fixes Kernel Netlink Layer and IPv6 Denial ...
FrSIRT - Montpellier,France
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by local or remote attackers to cause a denial of service. ...
Foundry Packs Gigabit, 10G Power into Small Switches
CIO India - Bangalore, Karnataka, India
The switches support static Layer 3 routing, as well as IPv6. Security features on the boxes include 802.1X support, which allows the switches to operate in ...
Command Information Joins Federal Executive Forum - IPv6 'Imagine ...
Web Services Journal - Montvale,NJ,USA
WHAT: Listen as the Federal Executive Forum - IPv6 "Imagine This" discusses the benefits of moving to the next generation Internet- IPv6, the business ...
Infoblox Breaks the "White Box Barrier" With New DNS/DHCP ...
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
The newest version of Infoblox's NIOS operating system includes strengthened support for IPv6, including full dual-stack IPv6, completely integrated with ...
Weekly IPv6 Roundup: May 1, 2007
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IESG Approves IPv6 Link Model Document for 802.16 Networks
ICT Standardization Report - USA
The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) approved "Analysis of *IPv6 Link Models for 802.16 based Networks," which provides different IPv6 link models ...
Unsafe routing option in IPv6
heise Security - London,UK
The developers of FreeBSD and Linux have released new kernel versions which by default ignores type 0 IPv6 routing headers. This is intended to prevent ...
Agencies activate IWN plan
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
IWN also will rely on IPv6 technology and evolving National Institute of Standards and Technology security standards, Justice said. ...
Linux Kernel IPv6 Protocol Type 0 Route Header Remote Denial of ...
FrSIRT - Montpellier,France
This issue is caused by a design error within the IPv6 protocol when handling IPv6 type 0 route headers, which could be exploited by remote attackers to ...
Tokyo boffins crack internet speed record
iT News - Australia
An international team led by the University of Tokyo has set two consecutive Internet2 Land Speed Records (I2-LSRs) in the IPv6 single and multi-stream ...
Consortium Develops Linux-based IPv6 Router
CIO India - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Since its inception in July last year, the IPv6 for e-Business project has worked to provide a portal for next-generation network technology by aggregating ...
ExecutiveBiz and SI International Present The Second Annual "The ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Part one of a two-part annual series on the next-generation Internet, the conference offers advice for building and securing a robust IPv6 network ...
IPv6 Configuration and Using OSPF and Other Routing Protocols for IPv6
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
IP Version 6 (IPv6) is a technology developed to overcome the limitations of the current standard, IP Version 4 (IPv4), which allows end systems to ...
FreeBSD Security Advisory - IPv6 Routing Header 0 is dangerous ...
Help Net Security - Croatia
All nodes in an IPv6 network -- both routers and hosts -- are required by RFC 2640 to process such headers. II. Problem Description There is no mechanism ...
