apologies for cross-posting...
On 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses
of the four root servers whose operators have requested it. A
technical analysis of inserting IPv6 records into the root has been
done by a joint working group of ICANN's Root Server System Advisory
Committee and Security and Stability Advisory Committee, a report of
which can be found at http://www.icann.org/committees/security/
sac018.pdf. Network operators should take whatever steps they feel
appropriate to prepare for the inclusion of AAAA records in response
to root queries.
More information will be posted to the IANA web site during January.
Regards,
Barbara Roseman
IANA General OperationsManager
ICANN
This announcement was posted on the RIPE NCC News & Announcements
webpage yesterday:
RIPE NCC Makes Record Number of IPv6 Allocations
The months of October and November 2007 set new records for the number
of IPv6 allocations made in a single month by the RIPE NCC. 24
allocations were made to RIPE NCC members in October, arecord
immediately broken by the 31 allocations made in November. The
previous peak was 19 allocations in a single month, which was achieved
on three separate occasions in 2003, 2004 and 2007.
This surge in demand for IPv6 address space follows recent changes in
the IPv6 allocation policy, which made it easier to get IPv6
allocations. The increase also comes in the wake of the publication of
the RIPE Community Resolution on IPv4 Depletion and Deployment of IPv6.
This statement, released immediately after the RIPE 55 meeting in
Amsterdam in October, urged all Internet industry stakeholders,
including ISPs, governments and regulators, to take steps to foster the
accelerating deployment of IPv6. The text of this resolution can be
found at:
http://www.ripe.net/news/community-statement.html
The deployment of IPv6 across the Internet has been a subject of growing
global interest, particularly as it relates to the diminishing pool of
free IPv4 address space, and the impact that this will have on the
ongoing growth and future stability of the Internet.
For more information on this, please send an email to <ncc(a)ripe.net>.
Best regards,
Alex Le Heux
Policy Implementation and Coordination, RIPE NCC
