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• Father of internet Vint Cerf worried about your old Facebook pics, talking with aliens

  When Vint Cerf was invited to join Google in 2005 he was asked what job title he wanted.

• IPv6 the great enabler of IoT but Australia’s adoption is slow

  IPv6 is the ‘go to’ communications protocol to enable the Internet of Things but Australia’s adoption of this technology is slow, according to a report released by Communications Alliance today.

• Americas are just 2 weeks away from running out of IPv4 addresses

  John Curran, <a href="https://www.arin.net/">CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN),</a> told attendees at the <a href="http://events.campustechnology.com/Events/CT-Summer-Educational-Technology-Conference/Information/HOME.aspx">Campus Technology conference</a> in Boston on Wednesday that the IP address authority's pool of IPv4 addresses has dwindled to 90,000 and will be exhausted in about two weeks.

• IPv6, IANA transition headline APNIC meeting

  Spurring adoption of IPv6 and promoting a smooth transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) are key Internet governance priorities for the year ahead, according to the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC).

• Antique equipment dents IPv6 reliability

  Devices on the edge of the network are holding back performance of IPv6, according to networking industry officials on a panel at APNIC 38.

• Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?

  In February 2011, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries. At the time, experts warned that within months all available IPv4 addresses in the world would be distributed to ISPs.

• IPv6 will allow them to track you down. Not!

  Everyone from marketers to law enforcement officials seem to hold the same misconception that IPv6 is going to make it possible to expose people in a way that IPv4 does not.

• Biggest risks in IPv6 security today

  Although IPv6 packets have started to flow, network engineers still tread lightly because of lingering security concerns. Here are the top six security risks in IPv6 network security today as voted by gogoNET members, a community of 95,000 network professionals.

• The IPv6 wave is moving ... just not as expected

  I loved my v6 wave diagram. It made perfect analytic sense to me; anyone could see this is how the market would adopt IPv6. The crest of the wave starts over the Investigation phase of IPv6 and then over time flows over Research, Trial and then Deployment - the sequential stages of IPv6 adoption. I held tightly to this diagram for as long as I could but Serge hated it. As we were walking out of our third pitch meeting of the day on Sand Hill Road he turned toward me and ordered that I remove it from the deck. "Too complicated for VCs to understand," he said.

• RSPs not demanding IPv6 services on NBN

  Demand from providers for IPv6 services on the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been low, according to Tom Sykes from NBN Co.

• Internet industry reports progress on IPv6, but work remains

  One year after the World IPv6 Launch Day, the Internet industry has reported steady progress moving users around the world to the new Internet Protocol version. However, Australia continues to lag behind other companies in IPv6 uptake, industry figures told Computerworld Australia.

• Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service

  Comcast plans to expand its IPv6-based offerings for business customers with the launch of commercial broadband and Metro Ethernet services that support the next-gen Internet Protocol later this year.

• NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V

  NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments.

• Industry pointing fingers as IPv6 adoption crawls forward

  The Internet Society of Australia predicted “piecemeal improvements” to IPv6 adoption in 2013.

• Cisco uses LISP to articulate programmability

  Network virtualization is one of the hotter trends in the industry today, and when Cisco speaks to it you hear a distinct LISP.