IPv6 and MEID’s… stop choking on 32 bits - 7/1/2008

Both the Internet and North American cellphones are choking under a 32 bit limitation and reactions from protagonists involved in both cases offer striking similarities.... Just like IPv4 addresses, the ESN was considered sufficient to uniquely identify mobile phones long enough to ignore any alarmist views of impending shortages.... by Yves Poppe

IPv6 and airline tickets… Tales of two transitions - 6/3/2008

The internet bus continues to accelerate straight into the IPv4 address depletion wall with spirited discussions continuing on how to divvy up the remnants of the address space. Obviously all five Regional Internet Registries (RIR’s) want to make sure they get their fair share from IANA but what a fair share is remains the subject of interpretation. In the meantime scenarios of a speculative land rush and auctions of ever smaller address blocks abound with unattractive consequences such as an explosion of the size of the routing table and a stunted growth of the global internet economy . That it was not supposed to be that way was colorfully illustrated by Geoff Huston at the RIPE meeting in Berlin last month... by Yves Pope

IPv6… Becoming a hot topic again? - 4/27/2008

Is IPv6 a hot topic again in the wake of the increased coverage of the looming IPv4 address depletion? This was the theme of a coffee break discussion we had at the recent MENOG3 (1) conference in Kuwait... by Yves Poppe

IPv6… A pre-game show in Denver and featured at the Geneva auto show - 3/31/2008

We saw it in San Jose, then in Taipei and in Philadelphia and now it is about to happen in Denver Colorado!

One, two, three, IPv4 switched off! - 2/28/2008

It happened in San Jose, it happened in Taiwan and soon it will happen in Philadelphia!