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And So It Begins… Comcast Starts Rolling Out IPv6 Production Network
Continue Reading: And So It Begins… Comcast Starts Rolling Out IPv6 Production NetworkFor those of us wanting to see IPv6 deployed, yesterday brought the great news that Comcast has started rolling out its IPv6 production network to customers.
Now, granted, the initial rollout was to only 100 homes in San Francisco’s East Bay. It is also restricted to a single computer directly connected to a Comcast cable modem. This initial rollout did not support home routers which are typically found for WiFi in many/most homes these days.
Still… it’s a start!
The experience Comcast gains with this initial rollout will only help them with wider rollouts and the inclusion of home routers.
Kudos to Comcast for this start of their IPv6 rollout… I’m looking forward to hearing of other service providers starting their IPv6 deployments! (Time Warner, I’m talking about you! 🙂
UPDATE: Comcast has now come out with two of their own blog posts on this topic:
- Deployment of IPv6 Begins by Jason Livingood
- Technical Details for Our IPv6 Deployment by John Brzozowski
Notice in particular this great part to the technical piece:
It is also important to note that we are deploying native dual stack, which means a customer gets both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. That means we are…
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Video: Voxeo’s New 60,000 Sq. Ft. Co-Working Office Space Featured in Fox News Interview
Continue Reading: Video: Voxeo’s New 60,000 Sq. Ft. Co-Working Office Space Featured in Fox News InterviewWant to see what Voxeo’s cool new office space looks like? The 60,000 square feet that also includes “co-working” space for startups?
Kudos to my former colleagues at Voxeo and to CEO Jonathan Taylor in particular for this great video interview on Orlando’s Fox 35… check it out:
It’s both a very cool space for Voxeons and also a great idea to create a startup incubator right there in the heart of downtown Orlando.
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Want to Learn About Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC? Attend the ION Conference in Toronto on Nov 14th
Continue Reading: Want to Learn About Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC? Attend the ION Conference in Toronto on Nov 14thWould you like to learn about how to deploy IPv6? Would you like to hear from people who are already using IPv6 within their networks? Would you like to learn a bit about DNSSEC and how it can help you secure your online presence?
If so, please join us in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for our next “Internet ON” (ION) Conference on Monday, November 14, 2011, starting at 12:30pm and sponsored by the Internet Society (my new employer). The sessions on the agenda include:
- New ISOC Initiative – Bridging the Divide Between IETF Standards and Industry-wide Deployment
- Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities in Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC, and Other Key Technologies
- World IPv6 Day Recap (my presentation)
- Ask the Expert: Next Steps to Implementing IPv6
- Closing Remarks and Q&A
We’re looking forward to providing a great session for people to ask questions and talk about how to get these technologies actually deployed in networks today.
The ION conference is part of the larger 2011 Canadian ISP Summit that takes place on the following two days and is included as part of the registration for the Canadian ISP Summit.
However, registration for the ION conference is FREE if you just want to attend…
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44% of SIP Implementations at SIPit 29 Supported IPv6!
Continue Reading: 44% of SIP Implementations at SIPit 29 Supported IPv6!Last week (Oct 24-27) was the 29th SIPit interoperability test event hosted by ETSI in Monaco. Organizer Robert Sparks has provided his usual outstanding summary of what occurred:
https://www.sipit.net/SIPit29_summary
The key point for me, given my new role, was right up at the top:
44% of the implementations present supported IPv6.
Now, of course ideally we’d like that to be 100%, but hey, it’s at least a good start!
There is also some narrative further down the report about “IPv6 Focused Tests” with some interesting info. One interesting note seems to be this:
Most UAs that supported dual-stack had a configuration to tell the application to ignore any returned AAAAs due to issues encountered in deployments where endpoints autoconfigured IPV6 that didn’t actually work.
In the web world this has been referred to as the “happy eyeballs” problem where a browser will try a DNS AAAA record to get to a site over IPv6 and then eventually will fail back to trying the A record to go over IPv4. The delay will cause the user to be very UNhappy. There are a couple of ways to address the issue with the usual one being to try both IPv6 and IPv4…
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Looking for a New Gig? Consider a Job at the Internet Society!
Continue Reading: Looking for a New Gig? Consider a Job at the Internet Society!Interested in a new work role? Looking to make a change from what you are doing now?
If you have a passion for the Internet – and for protecting the openness of the Internet – then please consider applying for one of open positions at the Internet Society. We have several new positions open, including:
- Sr. Manager, Next Generation Leaders Programme
- Internet Development Manager for Africa
- Application Development Specialist
- Sr. Director of Business Development and Resource Mobilization
I’m excited about joining the Internet Society and would love to welcome others onboard!
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Is Skype Soon To Release New APIs? Skype Renames Public API And Extends “Plugged into Skype” Partner Program
Continue Reading: Is Skype Soon To Release New APIs? Skype Renames Public API And Extends “Plugged into Skype” Partner ProgramToday brings two changes from Skype to their developer programs. First, in an effort to bring some clarity to their existing application programming interfaces (APIs), they have renamed the “Skype Public API” to be called the “Skype Desktop API.” As noted in a Skype blog post:
In Aug 2004, we made the Skype Desktop API available to encourage third-party innovation and integration with Skype. The Skype Desktop API allows Partners to access Skype functionality through the Skype desktop client via a text-based command protocol. The intent is not to duplicate Skype functionality but to complement the Skype desktop client with additional features and/or capabilities (e.g., call recording).
This is the API that pretty much all developers have had to use until recently where you application interacts directly with a Skype client. This also means that you have to have a Skype client running to use the API, which has been an additional annoyance for many developers. Developers have long desired an ability to connect directly into the Skype cloud without needing to run a client. Many of us had hoped that “SkypeKit” would be that client-less connection… but it, too, requires a client. UPDATE: Multiple friends pointed out to…
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The Creepy – And Insecure – Side of iOS and Android Apps
Continue Reading: The Creepy – And Insecure – Side of iOS and Android AppsWant to see the dark side of mobile apps? Just read this great bit of research from Troy Hunt:Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps
As people have noted in the comments, “iOS” (Apple’s operating system for iPhones and iPads) is purely the platform Troy Hunt did his research on… but he’s really talking about issues with mobile applications.
I’m my unfortunately sure that these type of issues will also be there on apps on Android and probably on other mobile operating systems from Microsoft, RIM, WebOS, etc.
These are application design issues.
The article starts off with the incredibly inefficient case of stuffing large images from “regular” websites down the mobile pipe to the phone… and then simply “resizing” them with “width” and “height” attributes. This is just laziness”efficiency” on the app developers part in that they are simply “repurposing their existing content” for a mobile audience, i.e. it’s too much work/effort for them to create and track a separate smaller image for a mobile environment so they will just send you the larger one and eat up your data plan bandwidth.
But Troy Hunt goes on to talk about far worse issues… he calls…
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150 Years Ago Today, the USA Got Wired!
Continue Reading: 150 Years Ago Today, the USA Got Wired!A great article in the San Francisco Examiner today about the completion, 150 years ago today, of the transcontinental telegraph here in the United States:150 years ago, a primitive Internet united the USA
I think “a primitive Internet” might be a bit of a stretch… but then again I’m one of those network people who think of the “Internet” as a “network of networks”… and this first interconnection was really just creating that initial network!
Nuances aside, it’s an enjoyable article to read…
I found this an interesting commentary on the disruption of the communication channels that came before:
Indeed, the Pony Express, which boasted it could deliver a letter from Sacramento to St. Joseph, Mo., in the unheard of time of 10 days when it began operations on April 3, 1860, shut down 19 months later — on the same day the transcontinental telegraph went live.
Though dramatic, that was a short-term effect. “But the longer-term effect was we connected the nation in real time. …,” says Fischer. “For the first time, businesses could do business nationally. The government could communicate nationally in almost real time.”
Well worth a read to understand the challenges that went into…
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My Rant: Who Are We Building RTCWEB/WebRTC For? Telephony Developers or Web Developers?
Continue Reading: My Rant: Who Are We Building RTCWEB/WebRTC For? Telephony Developers or Web Developers?Yesterday morning I did something I haven’t done in eons. Many years, probably. (I can’t remember.) I fired off a “rant” on an IETF mailing list.
I’ve been a huge proponent of the “RTCWEB/WebRTC” work going on in the “RTCWEB” Working of the IETF and the “WebRTC” of the W3C. I’ve mentioned it in many of my presentations. I’ve advocated for people to join the mailing lists. I’ve written about it a good bit on Voxeo’s standards blog when I was at Voxeo.
We have an opportunity to make it easy for web developers to add “real-time communications” via voice, video, IM, etc., to web applications. We can make that work from directly within the browser.
Think of it… HTML5 with the ability to quickly add voice, video, chat… and without the need for a browser plugin or extension in Flash, Java, etc. (the limitation of all of today’s proprietary options).
It’s the opportunity to move real-time communications into the very fabric of the Web.
Awesome potential!
The work has been moving along quite rapidly in both the IETF and the W3C. Extremely active (high-volume!) mailing lists. Many Internet-Draft documents being created. Regular conference calls, interim meetings, face-to-face meetings. Some…
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Can Alec Saunder Woo Developers Back to the Blackberry Platform?
Continue Reading: Can Alec Saunder Woo Developers Back to the Blackberry Platform?Can he do it? Can he get developers to actually care enough about the Blackberry / Playbook platform to come and build apps?Today my friend Alec Saunders, RIM’s newly minted “VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development”, took to the stage of the Blackberry “DevCon Americas” event in San Francisco to make the case to the assembled crowd. Jim Courtney passed along to me the link to the livecast of the event and I did take a moment to tune in and check it out. (Apparently a recording will be available at some point.)
Alec has a theatre background and is always fun to watch present… he has a certain dynamic energy that is good to see. In the few minutes I watched he seemed very much in his element:
Now, whether he will actually have any success is another question… despite his stats that the BlackBerry AppStore is more profitable for developers than the Android Marketplace, I don’t know if the broader world of developers will really notice. From what I see the momentum seems to be elsewhere…
I wish him the best, though… and Alec, when you read this, you can know that some of your friends…
Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…