Posted on 06/08/2011 5:06:30 AM PDT by ShadowAce
At 5 PM PT/ 8 PM ET on June 7th, World IPv6 Day will start. It's an event that will put hundreds of mainstream websites on IPv6 for the first time, as the world prepares for the transition to IPv6.
World IPv6 Day was first announced in January by the Internet Society. At the time, a handful of major websites including Google and Facebook publicly indicated that they would participate in the event. Over the last six months, the need for IPv6 has accelerated and so too has the public commitments to participate in World IPv6 Day.
The free pool of available IPv4 addresses was officially exhausted in February of this year. With the end of easily available IPv4 addresses, IPv6 is the only way forward to continue the growth of the connected devices and the Internet itself. The obvious need for IPv6 has helped to spur a dramatic surge in the number of public websites that will be participating in World IPv6 day.
"Over 300 websites around the world have indicated they will be participating in World IPv6 Day," Greg Wood, Director of Communications at the Internet Society told InternetNews.com. "In addition to websites with global reach, such as Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook, many participants are among the leading sites in their region."
Wood added that commitments to participate in World IPv6 Day already have exceeded the Internet Society's expectations. As well, Wood said that the event has sparked other IPv6-related activities, so it has definitely catalyzed significant interest and action.
"The goal of the event is to provide a large scale 'test flight'," Wood said. "So beyond highlighting awareness about the event itself, we expect it will help uncover information that will help accelerate the deployment of IPv6."
While awareness is a key goal of the event, there are also more tangible technical goals as well. With over 300 websites participating, reporting on the success and weaknesses in IPv6 will be a key deliverable at the end of the event.
"The main goal for World IPv6 Day is to provide a global-scale, real-world test of an IPv6-enabled Internet as a way to uncover issues that need to be addressed as IPv6 deployment continues," Wood said. "There will be a real-time dashboard at www.worldipv6day.org, but many of the most valuable lessons and important actions that result from World IPv6 Day will come in the weeks and months that follow."
World IPv6 is not the flag day when the world will magically turn on IPv6 and keep it on. The event is scheduled to run for only 24 hours and is a milestone on the path towards full IPv6 deployment, eventually.
"Ultimately, success will be measured by the continued deployment of IPv6," Wood said. "It is important to note that many organizations have already made this commitment. World IPv6 Day is encouraging the continued deployment of IPv6, so it is an important milestone along the path."
There may also be a need for a sequel to World IPv6 Day, depending on what happens over the course of the 24 hours test period.
"Once World IPv6 Day on 8 June 2011 is complete, the participants will evaluate what they have collectively learned, and what the best next steps will be," Wood said. "We will know more in the coming weeks and months, including whether another World IPv6 Day is needed to advance the deployment of IPv6."
In part, a point was; If we could look down on the earth and put on speciel glasses that would reveal only the electric lines on the planet, it would look like one, giant, bloodshot eyeball.
Perhaps the reality of Satan being the prince and the power of the air is more frightening than what we can imagine.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
>>Many years ago, while attending Bible school, I developed a sermon around the evil of the electronic world.
In part, a point was; If we could look down on the earth and put on speciel glasses that would reveal only the electric lines on the planet, it would look like one, giant, bloodshot eyeball.
Perhaps the reality of Satan being the prince and the power of the air is more frightening than what we can imagine.<<
I am not sure how one leads to the other...
The Outer Limits - Wolf 359.
When phones first appeared, the numbers were only 4-5 digits. Now a minimum of 7 is common, with areas requiring a full ten digits to be dialed.
This is the same thing.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
Amen.
It all started when people stopped riding animals (as God intended) and began making those satanic monsters of iron (which belched smoke like the brimstone of hell itself) to travel across a tortured land now bound in hideous rails of steel...
Do I get the gist of it, ya think?
>>Wolf 359<<
Isn’t that where the Enterprise encountered the Borg?
Wolf 359 is an actual star in the constellation Leo.
It was first used as the title of an Outer Limits episode in which a miniature planet (modeled after one orbiting Wolf 359) is created in a laboratory and as it develops, a Satanic force appears hovering over it and causing chaos.
The same star designation was also used in TNG for the Battle of Wolf 359.
Interestingly, the IPv4 structure has held up amazingly long. Vint Cerf chose 32 bits (8 for the network, 24 for the host) instead of 128 bits because it was just for their little ARPANET research network, and 32 bits was already quite a bit of overkill. Why add the overhead of 128 bits in an era when computing resources were so constrained and the cost for more networks and hosts than the protocol can handle appeared to be prohibitively high?.
First through classing (A-class, etc.), then masking, then through NAT, IPv4’s life has been extended insanely far beyond its original design. It’s a good testament to the original designers.
However, There will come a time when it will no longer be able to do the job. We may as well bite the bullet now and convert.
Just when you get your user community to think in terms of IPv4, as an IP Address........
Go Hexidecimal.........!
NOT!
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