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With IPv6 passing 4% of Google’s traffic and new networks all over the world steadily deploying IPv6 you may think that IPv6 protocol development work at the IETF is done with. Quite the opposite is true in fact. As IPv6 becomes the de facto Internet Protocol, it has also become a topic that must be […]

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the standards body for the Internet. It is the organization that publishes and maintains the standards describing the Internet Protocol (IP – versions 4 and 6), and all directly related and supporting protocols, such as TCP, UDP, DNS (and DNSSEC), BGP, DHCP, NDP, the list goes on, and […]

It has now been about eight months since I joined the Internet Society as the Director of Deployment & Operationalization and I still get asked on a fairly regular basis “what do you do?” Well, with ISOC’s Chief Internet Technology Officer Leslie Daigle’s recent departure, and with my time here having exceeded both my first […]

Back in January we launched a new project, Operators and the IETF, which aims to increase the amount of operator input into the IETF process. To keep from putting any carts in front of our horses, the first phase of this project is focused on gathering information and defining the problem statements. Once we have […]

As some of you may know, the team behind Deploy360 also works on other, related projects whenever that makes sense. I’m extremely happy today to get to announce one such new project! We’re calling it “Operators and the IETF” and I’m really looking forward to it. The objective of this new project is ultimately to […]

Happy New Year! It’s that time of year when many of us turn a major page on our calendar, reflect on the past revolution around the sun, and consider things to come. I find this a healthy and productive exercise in most cases, perhaps especially right now as I find my footing in this new […]

I am super excited today! In fact, I have been for about a week now and I don’t see any signs of that changing. Why all the fuss? I’m so glad you asked… As you may have seen back in July, Richard Jimmerson left the Internet Society and the team was looking for a new […]

Video from the first ever INET Denver, organized with our Colorado Chapter, is available for viewing now! Themed “IPv4 Exhaustion and the Path to IPv6,” the event was held at the Grand Hyatt Denver on the afternoon of Wednesday, 17 April. INET Denver was designed to complement the content presented at the co-located North American […]

The Colorado Chapter of the Internet Society (CO ISOC) recently held an event aimed at giving local IT and networking folks an introduction to IPv6.