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08 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

World IPv6 Day

I am joining World IPv6 Day !!! Although my content is hardly updated these days, I wanted it to be part of this test flight, a great milestone I believe for the eventual transition to IPv6. This site is IPv6-enabled, thanks to my webhost. I added a widget on the sidebar to see if you [...]

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31 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

IPv6 Monitor

I love graphs. I also love learning about IPv6. So when I saw this research on IPv6 monitoring by Comcast and University of Pennsylvania, i just had to repost. Notice in the above graph how IPv6 reachability has increased significantly during October 2009. Although 0.159% is very low, you have to give credit to it [...]

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06 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

IPv4 Address: A Decade Stats

IPv4, the current ip addressing system that we use, is reaching exhaustion. A bold prediction by Internet evangelists (like Geoff Huston of APNIC) is that all IPv4 addresses will be used up by 2012. My exhaustion counter says we only 629 days. It’s nice to look back at how our IPv4 address usage has increased [...]

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28 October 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Internationalized Domain Names

How would you like a domain name in your own native language or writing? Pretty fun right? But this can also be chaotic. Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) have been a source of heated discussions among Internet evangelists at ICANN for a while. [Try out the IDNs at idn.icann.org] This week from 25-30 October 2009 happens [...]

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28 October 2009 ~ 4 Comments

I am Waving

Google Wave, the search engine giant’s new venture, rolled out last September 30 [read here]. It’s now October 28th. My invite came a month later, but who cares. It is never too late to WAVE! Finally, thanks to a bunch of folks (or a friend’s friends). Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication [...]

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