IAB Warns That Internet Standards Will No Longer Be Based on IPv4, only IPv6

This month the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) provided another reason for organizations to think more about migrating their applications and services to IPv6. In a strong statement, the IAB warned other standards development organizations (SDOs) that future standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) may no longer support IPv4: The IAB expects that the […]

Slides: Intro to IPv6 by Olle Johansson

I noticed recently that my friend Olle Johansson had posted this nice intro to IPv6 from a presentation he gave back in March: TCP/IP Geeks Stockholm :: Introduction to IPv6 from Olle E Johansson What I like about it is that he provides some of the motivation for why we need to care about IPv6.

New IPv6 Case Studies Out… But None From Application Developers!

As part of my job at the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme, we recently published a whole new batch of IPv6 case studies during the 2nd “Launchiversary” of World IPv6 Launch. However, if you scan down that list of case studies you’ll see one interesting omission: There are NO case studies from application developers! None. Zilch. […]

Slide: Making an application fully IPv6 compliant

Slides from RIPE66: Making an Application Fully IPv6 Compliant

Today at the RIPE66 meeting in Dublin, Ireland, Bert Hubert of PowerDNS fame gave a great presentation about “Making an application fully IPv6 compliant“: The video and audio for the session should be available soon. I very much enjoyed Bert’s presentation and he had a few points that I will think about adding to the […]

Updated List of IPv6 Resources for Application Developers

Recently I noticed that my list of IPv6 resources for application developers had not been updated since the second version of Migrating Applications to IPv6 was published in June 2012.  I’ve now gone ahead and updated the list to have all the links that I added to the second release of the book. Now, granted, some […]