[ipv6-wg] IPv6 Act Now news update

Hi all,

In what I hope will be a regular addition to the IPv6 WG mailing list,  
I wanted to provide a quick round-up of some of the items we've  
featured in the IPv6 Act Now newsfeed over the past week. These are  
provided for your information, but also, we hope, to provoke some  
discussion. You're obviously welcome to discuss on this list, or you  
can leave comments on the new pages themselves at www.ipv6actnow.org.

I'd also be keen to hear feedback on whether the WG feels that this is  
a useful activity!

Regards,
Chris Buckridge, RIPE NCC



IPv6 interview: Maria Häll, Swedish Government (28 Jan 2010)
Maria Häll, Deputy Director for the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and  
Communications in Sweden, and Co-chair of the RIPE Cooperation Working  
Group, talks about the role governments can play in encouraging IPv6  
deployment in the latest IPv6 Act Now video interview.
<http://www.ipv6actnow.org/2010/01/maria-hall-interview/>


Comcast to start a series of public IPv6 trials using 3 transition  
mechanisms (28 Jan 2010)
Comcast announced plans to conduct production-network trials of IPv6  
technology in the coming year. The trials are aimed at helping  
identify and solve any areas of difficulty involved in the transition  
to IPv6, and determining what approach will be the easiest and most  
seamless for Comcast's customers.
<http://www.ipv6actnow.org/2010/01/comcast-to-start-a-series-of-public-ipv6-trials-using-3-transition-mechanisms/ 
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Blue Coat introduces industry’s first IPv6 secure Web gateway solution  
(25 Jan 2010)
Blue Coat Systems announced that it has introduced the industry’s  
first IPv6 secure web gateway solution to enable the secure and  
seamless migration of applications, services and content between IPv4  
and IPv6 environments.
<http://www.ipv6actnow.org/2010/01/blue-coat-introduces-industrys-first-ipv6-secure-web-gateway-solution/ 
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2009, the year before IPv6 took off? (22 Jan 2010)
Emile Aben, of the RIPE NCC Science Department, talks about some of  
the signs of IPv6 adoption seen from the RIPE NCC, in terms of traffic  
to RIPE NCC websites and services. [links to the RIPE Labs website]
<http://www.ipv6actnow.org/2010/01/2009-year-ipv6-took/>


BT Diamond IP awarded U.S. patent for integrated management of IPv4  
and IPv6 (21 Jan 2010)
Shane Kerr mentioned this briefly on the list earlier in the week: BT  
Diamond IP announced the awarding of U.S. Patent 7,623,547 for  
"Internet Protocol Address Management System and Method", an IP  
Address Management (IPAM) system which supports both IPv4 and IPv6  
address space using a unique hierarchical container structure and  
block allocation techniques.
<http://www.ipv6actnow.org/2010/01/bt-diamond-ip-awarded-u-s-patent-for-integrated-management-of-ipv4-and-ipv6/ 
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