The Winter 2012 TXv6TF Summit Proceeding are on-line

The proceedings from the 2012 meeting that the University of Texas at Dallas are now on-line.

IPv6 and DNSSEC, does your county government support them?

The Texas IPv6 Task Force has launched a project to report on adoption of IPv6 and DNSSEC by the County Governments of Texas. See http://maps.txv6tf.org for the report and contact your commissioner’s court if you see that your county is not supporting the via technologies!

Welcome to World IPv6 Launch Day

Today is world IPv6 Launch Day.

North America IPv6 Summit in Denver Features Stephan Lagerholm as Speaker

The North American IPv6 Summit is happening April 10-11,2012 in Denver, Colorado. Stephan Lagerholm, TXv6TF board member, will be speaking at the conference on Wednesday at 11:15am as part of the Enterprise and IPAM track, one of three tracks scheduled. Registration is open.

TXv6TF Board Members Speaking at Recent Conferences

So far, February has been a busy month for the TXv6TF. Stephan Lagerholm spoke on the 17th at a IT security conference for the University of Texas System on IPv6. His talk is available here. Stan Barber spoke on the 23rd at the annual TTVN conference. Stan’s talk is available here.

Stan Barber to Speak at IEEE Globecom in Houston

Stan Barber, chair of TXv6TF, is speaking and will be part of a panel at the upcoming IEEE Globecomm meeting in Houston this week. This is the 2nd year that Stan has spoken at the IEEE Globecomm event and the 10th year that IEEE has engaged the IPv6 Forum to assemble a group of IPv6 experts for an afternoon on IPv6. This will happen Wednesday, December 7. For more information, check the IEEE Globecomm website. A copy of the slides from this talk are available.

2012 North American IPv6 Summit Announced

The Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force has announced the dates for a joint event being called the 2012 North American IPv6 Summit. The dates of the event are April 9 – 11, 2012 and will be in Denver. Check out this link for more information.

Fall 2011 TXv6TF – Registration is Now Closed!

Thanks for everyone registering for the event. Registration is now closed.

If you are registered and are now not planning on attending, please let us know so we can give your seat to someone who would like to be there, but now is unable to get a seat.

TXv6TF Fall 2011 Speakers Now Finalized

The list of Speakers and Topic for the 2011 TXv6TF Fall Event is now final.

IPv6 Fragmentation

Bill Cerveny of Arbor Networks has a great post on IPv6 Fragmentation. It works a bit differently in IPv6 from IPv4 and it’s a very important difference. This is especially true when considering how to implement a security policy. Fragmentation is one of the few uses of IPv6 extension headers seen regularly in the wild today and must use Path-MTU to work effectively.