Talk: The Status of IPv6 in desktop operating systems
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!
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.
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Edvina AB co-founds IPv6-forum Sweden
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.
New blog by Edvina: IPv6Friday.org
Edvina has started a new blog in order to guide people in the wild forest of IPv6 and inspire readers to spend 30 minutes every Friday to learn more about IPv6. The idea is not to write a new complete IPv6 guide or start a new encyclopedia. There are many existing web sites out there with lots of good information about IPv6. Edvina’s IPv6friday.org just wants to inspire readers to learn more and focus on a particular IPv6-related topic. The short article is followed by links to other sites where the reader can get deeper information and spend some time to explore the IPv6 universe.
The founder of Edvina, Olle E. Johansson, has written a blog entry on his personal blog to explain how this started and the ideas behind the new project. Olle says:
IPv6 is the future of the Internet. It’s required for the Internet to grow. It’s required for the Internet to be for everyone on the planet. It’s needed for true peer-to-peer applications. We do need it to stop spending time on NAT traversal in SIP and focus on more important issues – like how SIP can become competitive to Skype and FaceTime and the architecture and requirements for a global open Internet-based federation for realtime communication. 30 minutes a week isn’t too much of your valuable time. It’s an investment for the future that will help both yourself in your personal career and the organization your work for. See you next Friday!
Please join the ride, follow the flow and spend at least 30 minutes on IPv6 every Friday. Learn more, lab and join the discussion. In addition to the blog, there’s a Twitter account, Facebook page and a Google plus page
Edvina SIP Trainings in Argentina
At the 4K conference in Buenos Aires, Edvina’s Olle E. Johansson will run two trainings. It’s a unique opportunity to learn more about SIP and scalable networks with Kamailio and Asterisk from one of the leading developers and Open Source SIP solution architects!