Comcast, Time Warner Cable Sign-on for 24 hours of test IPv6

Illustration: Jack GallagherComcast and Time Warner Cable have joined the multitude of vendors that are participating in the IPv6 world, a 24-hour Internet protocol next-generation next June 8.

BACKGROUND: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, commit to IPv6 Day trial worlds

Participants in the world day of IPv6 are needed to support native IPv6 traffic on their websites in front of the public along with the current standard, known as IPv4.

"IPv6 Day-Worldwide-who is going to be a very important day," says John Brzozowski, Chief Architect for IPv6 and distinguished engineer at Comcast, which has an ongoing process at national level of IPv6. "Anybody participating will test before the world day of IPv6, which will help awareness and availability of unity".

Other notable participants in the world day of IPv6 include Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Akamai, Limelight Networks, Cisco, Juniper Research service and Microsoft Bing. Hosting service providers and Rackspace have SoftLayer technologies signed for testing IPv6, Mozilla browser maker and DNS appliance vendor BlueCat Networks.

Verizon Business and Blue Coat Systems say they will participate in the world officially IPv6 but have not yet signed up yet.

The growing list of participants of the world day of IPv6 is another sign of the market momentum around IPv6, which suddenly became the network update for carriers and enterprises more significant over the years.

Network providers are jumping on the bandwagon world day of IPv6 because they are anxious to demonstrate to their clients--especially the u.s. military--they don't just "talk talk", but are willing to "walk the walk" when it comes to distribute their IPv6 products.

IPv6 is a required update because the Internet is running out of IP addresses using the standard 40-year-old IPv4.

BY THE numbers: The evolution of the Internet

The free pool of IPv4 addresses not assigned was sold out two weeks ago, when the regional Internet registries that receives their final assignment by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). The records shall be kept at dole most of the remaining IPv4 address for the next three to six months.

The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses as IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support only 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet. However, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses and supports a virtually unlimited number of devices--2 to power its 128th.

Politicians say network operators must upgrade to IPv6 in order to support the billions of other people in the world who want to connect to the Internet through mobile phones, PCs, game consoles or other devices. Today, the Internet has around 2 billion people, compared to a total world population topping 6 billion.

The goal of the world day of IPv6 is to encourage the creation of IPv6-based content, and to check availability of the new standard for use at high volume. Test participants wish to find out how common it is for network equipment to end-users be misconfigured and unable to support IPv6, an issue of industry calls IPv6 brokenness.

"The most important thing is for companies to allow their public facing IPv6 to the Web Server," says John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet numbers. "Once you've done that, you can provide the same connectivity to your customers if they have an IPv4 address or an IPv6 address. Until you've done, your customers will see unknown IPv6 to your site. If you can do so by June 8, you can participate in all the tests on the operation of IPv6. "

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Shareholders of Nokia plan b give up after 36 hours

Yesterday we reported some shareholders of Nokia offered a plan b for the company who also wrote a long list of suggestions. The Group of nine young Nokia shareholders was planning to challenge the company's strategy and the partnership with Microsoft in the next annual general meeting scheduled for May 3, 2011. After 36 hours, however, the Group withdrew.

The nine wanted to change the current management seriously, which included getting the expulsion of Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop. They argued that Nokia will maintain ownership and control of the level of its software products because the software is where the value of innovation, differentiation and shareholder more easily can be created. They also wanted a renewal in hiring strategy, the Elimination of outdated and bureaucratic R&D practices and at all costs avoid becoming "a poorly differentiated OEM".

Now, all that went out the window. Are cited two reasons: for the moment their plan also came to fruition, the most talented software developers to Nokia would've gone, and institutional investors who own most stocks of Nokia have told them that their fiduciary liability through bars them with an activist. You can read the full decision output, aptly named call closes, below:

After reviewing the feedback we received from investors on our plan B, we decided not to continue with it.

In the last 36 hours we were contacted by hundreds of individual shareholders (anywhere from 10 to 400 000 Nokia shares) with a commitment to support us by voting by proxy or in person by attending the AGM.

However, the responses we received from institutional investors were not encouraging. These institutions have a fiduciary responsibility to their clients and are legally bared by supporting initiatives radicals such as seating a bunch of children on board. If you do not agree with Nokia plans, are better simply transfer and put their money into companies that best fit their investment strategy (which is exactly what they did).

We also understand that by the time that our plan b would kick in, most of the remaining software talent in Nokia would have already left the company, so it really would be an uphill battle to collect things from there.

This is from us. It is up to you what to do with your money. We'll stop short of endorsing NokiaPlanC.com or NokiaPlanX.com, even if we think that they are both excellent ideas.