IPv6 Update

 

* IANA IPv4 Exhaustion

At a ceremony held on 3 February, 2011 the Internet Assigned 

Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the remaining last five /8s of 

IPv4 address space to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) in 

accordance with the Global Policy for the Allocation of the 

Remaining IPv4 Address Space. With this action, the free pool of 

available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. To read the full 

text of this announcement please go to:

http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted 

* World IPv6 Day

Facebook, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), websites 

with more than one billion combined visits each day, are joining 

major content delivery networks Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM) and 

Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW), and the Internet Society, for 

the first global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6. 

On June 8, 2011, dubbed World IPv6 Day, participants will enable 

IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours.  Cisco, Juniper, 

Hurricane Electric, and Bing have also announced their 

participation.

http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/

Hurricane Electric's open letter to Hurricane Electric Customers, 

Partners and Managers of Interconnected Networks about World IPv6 

Day.

http://he.net/news/Hurricane_Electric_Letter_Regarding_World_IPv6_Day.pdf

At Hurricane Electric, every day is an IPv6 day.

* IPv6 Deployment Growth 

The global IPv6 routing table has passed 4000 IPv6 prefixes.

Of the 36820 networks in the world running BGP, the number running 

IPv6 has increased to 3107, or 8.4 percent.

Source: http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi