This article points out the impact on businesses of the IPv6-only directive in the Federal Government. I encourage every enterprise IT person to take a moment to read it.
Category Archives: General
The Impact of Covid-19 on IPv6
Check out this podcast from some of my favorite IPv6 guys. They are discussing some impacts on IPv6 usage in during the Covid-19 Pandamic.
Stay well and safe!
NIST NCCoE is Hosting a Workshop on IPv6 Enabled Enterprises
NIST NCCoE will host a workshop on Security for IPv6 Enabled Enterprises. The focus will be to identify and develop plans to address security challenges / barriers to full IPv6 deployment in enterprise settings.
Please see the call for participation below for more details and to register.
https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/events/security-ipv6-enabled-enterprises
Questions about workshop participation should be sent to: ipv6-transition@nist.gov
New Site, New Look
The TXv6TF web site is now hosted on WordPress.com. We believe all the content has been moved and properly formatted, but if you find something wrong or missing, please let us know. You can send mail to website@txv6tf.org and I will look at it as soon as possible.
Thanks for your continuing interest and support!
TXv6TF is Presenting at the IEEE GreenTech of Smart City Conference in April, 2018
TXv6TF is presenting a tutorial session about IPv6 at the IEEE GreenTech of Smart City Conference in April of 2018. The session will be delivered by Stan Barber, Cung Nguyen, Jeff Handal and Rob Barton. This four hour tutorial will include an overview of IPv6’s use for industrial IoT projects with deep dives into a few of them. You can still register for the conference in Austin Texas. You can get discount on the registration. Details can be found here.
Stan Barber Recognized For Work on NAv6TF Meeting In Sunnyvale
Stan Barber was recognized for his contribution to the recent meeting at LinkedIn in Sunnyvale. He was among many folks led by Scott Hogg of RMv6TF that organized the meeting under the North American IPv6 Task Force.
He was recognized for his work organizing the awards ceremony where several North American ISP were recognized for achieving 20% or more IPv6 Utilization on their networks.
The NAv6TF Meeting is happening today and tomorrow in Sunnyvale, CA
Today and tomorrow, people from around the continent are gathering in Sunnyvale, CA to hear more about the status of the migration of the Internet to IPv6. Over 100 people are registered for the event.
After the event, there will be recordings of the talks available for anyone to listen to posted. More details on that will be made available at a later day.
There are several folks attending here from Texas and I am glad to see them.
Speaker’s List of NAv6TF meeting has been posted.
Please see here.
Registration is now OPEN for the NAv6TF event in Sunnyvale, CA
Please select this link to register.
A Few More Details on the Upcoming 2017 NAv6TF Conference
Some more on the upcoming event.
At this year’s IPv6 Summit event we will celebrate all that has been accomplished regarding IPv6 deployment. We will also discuss the remaining challenges for IPv6 adoption. The IPv6 Summit event this year will focus on the accomplishments that have been made in recent years that have driven the accelerating growth in IPv6 Internet traffic. The event would like to celebrate the hard work performed by broadband service providers, mobile carriers, online content providers, content distribution networks, equipment manufacturers, operating system manufacturers, and numerous others.
Following are a list of topics that we would like the presentations to cover:
- Examples of exemplary IPv6 adoption
- Best practices for IPv6 deployment and promotion of IPv6 adoption
- Methods that have driven increased usage of IPv6
- Current IPv6 adoption trends and future projections of IPv6 growth
- Tasks remaining for the IPv6 community, challenges for IPv6, next steps
- Furthering IPv6 deployment in enterprise networks
- Examples of how IPv6-only environments are being used
There will be a single-track of presentations through the 2-days.
Registration: The registration site will be available soon. Event registration will be online for $200/person for the 2-day event.
Dates: April 25 & 26, 2017
Times: Registration and coffee from 8:00AM to 9:00AM, first keynote starts at 9:00AM, presentations throughout the day ending at 5:00PM
Address: 605 West Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085
Parking: Free Parking in their 4-story parking garage
Meals Provided: In the morning coffee/juice/water/tea, full lunch, sodas/water and cookies in afternoon
Everyone receives a custom t-shirt for the event
