[AusNOG] world IPv6 launch June 6 2012

[Narelle]

This is just the launch announcement.

ISOC-AU is keen to speak with and to hear from *every* Australian ISP
on this topic.

More on this later!


Narelle Clark
President ISOC-AU


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
> Not surprising Internode are there, but there's still a lot of big names
> missing, from all over the globe, nice initiative, but, long way to go in
> reality.
>
>
> http://www.worldipv6launch.org/press/20120117-2/
>
>
> World IPv6 Launch Solidifies Global Support for New Internet Protocol
>
> Top websites, Internet service providers, and home networking
> equipment manufacturers commit to largest transition in the Internet’s
> history
>
> [Washington, D.C., USA and Geneva, Switzerland] – 17 January 2012 – Major
> Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers,
> and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable
> IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.
>
> Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day
> World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a
> major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the
> current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the
> Internet’s continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic
> development.
>
> “The fact that leading companies across several industries are making
> significant commitments to participate in World IPv6 Launch is yet another
> indication that IPv6 is no longer a lab experiment; it’s here and is an
> important next step in the Internet’s evolution,” commented Leslie Daigle,
> the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology Officer. “And, as there are
> more IPv6 services, it becomes increasingly important for companies to
> accelerate their own deployment plans.”
>
> ISPs participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 for enough users so
> that at least 1% of their wireline residential subscribers who visit
> participating websites will do so using IPv6 by 6 June 2012. These ISPs have
> committed that IPv6 will be available automatically as the normal course of
> business for a significant portion of their subscribers. Committed ISPs are:
>
> ●      AT&T
> ●      Comcast
> ●      Free Telecom
> ●      Internode
> ●      KDDI
> ●      Time Warner Cable
> ●      XS4ALL
>
> Participating home networking equipment manufacturers will enable IPv6 by
> default through the range of their home router products by 6 June 2012.
> Committed equipment manufacturers are:
>
> ●      Cisco
> ●      D-Link
>
> Web companies participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 on their
> main websites permanently beginning 6 June 2012. Inaugural participants are:
>
> ●      Facebook (www.facebook.com)
> ●      Google (www.google.com)
> ●      Microsoft Bing (www.bing.com)
> ●      Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)
>
> Content delivery network providers Akamai and Limelight will be enabling
> their customers to join this list of participating websites by enabling IPv6
> throughout their infrastructure.
>
> <snip>
>
>
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Narelle
narellec at gmail.com