100Gb IETF Meeting

Cruisin' on 100Gb! We just finished putting a 100Gb link into production for the IETF 71 meeting in Philadelpha, PA. This line is FAST and is a direct fiber shot from here to McLean, VA, which is over 400 kilometers away. Another really sweet thing about this link is that it uses a single wavelength on the fiber, so you could add even more 100Gb circuits on the same strand of fiber!!! And to imagine that we were the first users to be directly connected to the end of 100Gb.

ICANN Elephant spin

When I was at ICANN New Delhi Feb 2008 I witnessed a elephant spinning around and around in a intersection not knowing what direction to continue on. After a few minuites of getting dizzy the elephant continued on it way down the street.

IPv6 Elevator Pitch

By the early 1990s, it was clear that the change to a classless network introduced a decade earlier was not enough to prevent IPv4 address exhaustion and that further changes to IPv4 were needed. By the beginning of 1992, several proposed systems were being circulated and by the end of 1992, the IETF announced a call for white papers (RFC 1650) and the creation of the "IP, the Next Generation" (IPng Area) of working groups.

IPng was adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force on July 25, 1994 with the formation of several "IP Next Generation" (IPng) working groups. By 1996, a series of RFCs were released defining IPv6, starting with RFC 2460. (Incidentally, IPv5 was not a successor to IPv4, but an experimental flow-oriented streaming protocol intended to support video and audio.)

It is expected that IPv4 will be supported alongside IPv6 for the foreseeable future. IPv4-only nodes (clients or servers) will not be able to communicate directly with IPv6 nodes, and will need to go through an intermediary.