Talk: The Status of IPv6 in desktop operating systems

January 25, 2012

This is a presentation by Olle E. Johansson covering the status of IPv6 in the free and Open Source operating systems compared with Windows 7 and OS/X. Sadly, Windows 7 wins. There is a lot of information missing in the user interfaces of most operating systems, lack of support in the user interfaces for Privacy Enhanced IPv6 addresses and a huge lack of support of DHCPv6.

The World IPv6 Launch!

January 23, 2012

The Internet Society has declared June 6th 2012 as the World IPv6 Launch day. Like last year’s World IPv6 Day this event is focused on the web. While last year was a test for one day, this event is focused on turning IPv6 on and keeping it activated. Many large and small web sites have joined the effort and more are signing up every day. 

Turn IPv6 on – and keep it activated on your web site!

The goal is to turn on dual stack support on web sites, which also requires support for IPv6 access in DNS and many support systems. Edvina’s blog IPv6friday.org describes what you need to do in order to support IPv6 in your systems.

From the web to SMTP, SIP, XMPP and other protocols

We hope that this project can also add some momentum for other protocols than HTTP. Realtime protocols like SIP and XMPP need IPv6 support as well, and especially solutions for dual stack environments. SIP was defined for both IPv4 and IPv6 from start, but there wasn’t much consideration on dual stack deployment. The problems that have been handled by web browsers (called Happy Eyeballs) needs to be applied to almost all other protocols. Edvina is working on this, from doing testing to show the issues at SIPit 29 in Monaco 2011 to working with the SIP Forum IPv6 project.

Need help with your IPv6 project? Count on us!

In Edvina and our partners we have years of experience of TCP/IP networking and have focused on building experience and detailed knowledge about IPv6 during the last couple of years.  Contact us about your IPv6 project today!

Edvina AB co-founds IPv6-forum Sweden

January 8, 2012

Edvina AB is founding member of the Swedish IPv6 Forum.

-“IPv6 is the only way forward for the Internet. IPv6 enables global growth while keeping the current architecture of the net. It is not only a matter of technology, it’s a matter of an Open Internet for everyone. It’s a matter of keeping the Internet without strange gateways and other patches to survive. IPv6 is a fundamental requirement for growth of realtime communication, like IP Telephony.” says Olle  E. Johansson, founder of Edvina.

Edvina is already working with IPv6, with the SIPv6 initiative that promotes IPv6 in the Session Initiation Protocol, participating in several SIPit interoperability events with IPv6 and dual-stack tests as well as publishing the IPv6friday.org blog with new articles about IPv6 every Friday.

Olle E. Johansson have written a lot of blog entries about IPv6 on his personal blog voip-forum.com as well as on the II-foundation .SE and ISOC.SE blogs.

IPv6-forum.se is part of the global movement

The Swedish IPv6 forum is part of the global IPv6 Forum. Among the founding members are Edvina’s partners Upsys and Europoint. The initiative came from .SE and Edvina. The forum is now open for member applications.