New Zealand IPv6 Task Force

The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force has been busy of late, progressing a number of important initiatives. Updates below: Government initiative: InternetNZ has graciously provided funding for Donald Clark to work with the IPv6 Task Force on a part time basis through to mid December in order to provide a specific focus on Government adoption [...]

The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force has compiled a series of ‘latest news’ items relating to IPv6 in New Zealand. Read more below: —- New Zealand IPv6 Task Force supports World IPv6 Day The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force put its weight behind World IPv6 Day in June, engaging in several promotional activities to help [...]

New Zealand IPv6 Task Force Media Release – 14 July 2011 Awareness of the critically-important IPv6 addressing protocol has reached a near universal level among New Zealand’s large public and private sector organisations, but significant challenges remain in attaining widespread IPv6 adoption, especially amongst government agencies. IPv6 is the ‘next-generation’ method of Internet addressing and [...]

Asia Pacific region runs out of IPv4 Internet addresses The organisation that manages Internet address allocation for the Asia Pacific region has announced that it has no more IPv4 Internet addresses available for general allocation. APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is now implementing austerity measures, in which the remaining few IPv4 addresses are [...]

The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force will be out in force at two upcoming ICT events – the CIO Summit and NetHui – promoting recent Task Force activity and encouraging organisations to adopt IPv6. The CIO Summit is being held in Auckland on 27 and 28 June 2011 and the Task Force is teaming up [...]