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Sun, Feb 19 2012 12:57

In June: Happy Birthday to me–World IPv6 Launch Day

I’d like to thank ISOC (the Internet Society) for making my birthday later this year into World IPv6 Launch Day . This year is a special one for anniversaries – my 45th birthday, 20 years since I arrived in the USA, 10 years since beating cancer – seems...
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Tue, Mar 29 2011 18:03

World IPv6 Day–some likely effects

Are you ignoring IPv6 for the moment, knowing it’s not going to affect you any time soon? I have news for you – you will be significantly affected in the next two months. It seems that a large fraction of the world is really rather dismissive about the...
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Tue, Nov 23 2010 12:24

Belkin Play N600 HD – just a toy router.

I saw the Belkin Play N600 HD router (F7D8301) at Costco a couple of days ago, for a very good price. I’d been looking for a good price on an 802.11n router for some time – partly to increase coverage through my house, but also to ensure that I had a...
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Tue, Oct 12 2010 21:29

US Government Mandates IPv6–are you ready?

White House CIO Vivek Kundra released a memo last month to US Federal CIOs on transitioning to IPv6, at a workshop on the importance of adopting IPv6. Put simply, the memo gives a timetable for moving the US Federal government to using native IPv6 for...
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Fri, Jul 16 2010 20:12

X-Day–less than a year away!

As you can see from the IPv4 Exhaustion Counter to the left (snapshot taken 7/16/2010, 7:30 pm PDT), IPv4 addresses are dwindling. OK, so that’s perhaps a rather simplistic description of what’s going on – these are a count of the IANA blocks that have...
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