North American IPv6 Task Force

Posted on February 25, 2011 by admin

Welcome to the North American IPv6 Task Force website.

The North American IPv6 Task Force (NAv6TF) is a sub-chapter of the IPv6 Forum dedicated to the advancement and propagation of IPv6 (Internet Protocol, version 6) in the North American continent. Comprised of individual members organized under Non-profit 501(c)(3) entities, rather than corporate sponsors, the NAv6TF mission is to provide technical leadership and innovative thought for the successful integration of IPv6 into all facets of networking and telecommunications infrastructure, present and future.

Through its continued facilitation of publications, IPv6 certifications, IPv6-centric conferences, IPv6 test and interoperability events, IPv6 deployment readiness guides, and collaborative leaders from around the globe, the NAv6TF will strive to be the guiding force for IPv6 adoption and readiness in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

The North American IPv6 Task Force continues to thrive thanks to Jim Bound († 2009) and his initial vision of IPv6 adoption.  Jim headed our movement and weaved the social fabric which brought us together. We continue to pursue Jim Bound’s visionary goal of IPv6 Deployment through our voluntary membership of scientists and engineers.  The journey is the reward Jim and each of us thank you for inviting us on your flight.

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IPv6 is hovering at around 50% usage according to Google’s Statistics

Posted on April 16, 2026 by Stan Barber

Check out Google’s tracker for the specifics.

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Configure IPv6-only subnets and instances with DNS64 and NAT64 on Google Cloud

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Stan Barber

Google Cloud has announced the ability to configure IPv6-only subnet and instances with DNS64 and NAT64 in Google Cloud. This is fantastic! (see https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/connect-ipv6-to-ipv4)

This is not the first cloud provider to do this AWS announced a similar capability in 2021( see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/introducing-ipv6-only-subnets-and-ec2-instances/), however Azure does not yet support IPv6-only capabilities (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ipv6-overview).

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Some Thoughts on the IPv6 Development and Deployment in 2024

Posted on October 16, 2024 by Stan Barber

Sine 1995 when RFC 1883 was published, IPv6 started to evolve towards the protocol needed to cope with the growth of the Internet. Since that time, deployment of IPv6 has grown to almost half of the traffic (as identified by Google). I think that many of us that have been advocating for this deployment are happy to see this growth (though maybe a little impatient with the pace of the growth).

The IETF continues to refine IPv6 to address various deployment and operational situations that have arisen. The most recent work (this is being written between IETF 120 and 121) involves work by both 6MAN (IPv6 Maintenance) and V6OPS ( IPv6 Operations) working groups. Additionally, there is very new working group on the instantiation of Segment Routing (SR) on the IPv6 data plane as well as a long-lived working group on for IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes. All of these have meetings scheduled at IETF 121.

To me, this level of work is encouraging. A lot of the work seems to more concentrated on facilitating enterprise deployments (DHCPv6, for example) and the considerations that arise from IPv6 only and IPv6 mostly networks. If you have interest, please investigate these developments. I know the IETF Is always looking for helpful participants to move along the Internet Standards process.

One more thing: There has been a bit a kerfuffle over the migration of the IETF mailing lists to a new commercial provider. You can read more about it here. I remain concerned that should a provider be used that does not support IPv6 today, the IETF is not really supporting the notion that IPv6 is ready for broad deployment. I realize the complications of supporting email in today’s world and that some of those methods involve reputation evaluation of the email sender based on legacy approaches. However, I am also of the opinion that the IETF is uniquely positioned to develop standards that can supplant these approaches.

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10th Anniversary Celebration of World IPv6 Launch Day – Scott Hogg, North American IPv6 Task Forces

Posted on June 17, 2022 by George Usi

This presentation is both a celebration of the work performed to get IPv6 adoption to this point in North America. It also covers what work remains to continue to further IPv6 education, adoption, and usage beyond the service provider and large-enterprise level.

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Jeff Carrell Will Present to DETSEC February 24

Posted on February 23, 2022 by Stan Barber

In networking, IP as we call it is generally Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the replacement for IP running in today’s networks. 23 years after the initial release of IPv6 we observe that many networks are not formally implementing IPv6, however, most modern desktop/server OS’s have had IPv6 enabled for 8+ years. That means many IT departments and technologists don’t understand that IPv6 is in fact all over their networks nor what the potential implications are.

This session will cover a few IPv6 basics and then dive into a real-world demonstration accessing a live network and the recon/exploit of an “IPv4 only” network using IPv6.

Plan to attend at 7pm CT on February 24th.

Contact jeff.carrell@gmail.com the get the Zoom Meeting information.

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Jeff Carrell @ DFW-CUG in February 2021

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Stan Barber

TXv6TF’s own Jeff Carrell will be speaking at the upcoming DFW-CUG (Cisco Users Group) meeting in February, 2021. He will presenting on Wireshark and as part of that will speak to IPv6 capabilities. More information on the meeting is on the DFW-CUG website.

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IPv6 Article in Enterprise Executive Magazine

Posted on June 27, 2020 by Stan Barber

This article points out the impact on businesses of the IPv6-only directive in the Federal Government. I encourage every enterprise IT person to take a moment to read it.

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The Impact of Covid-19 on IPv6

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Stan Barber

Check out this podcast from some of my favorite IPv6 guys. They are discussing some impacts on IPv6 usage in during the Covid-19 Pandamic.

Stay well and safe!

 

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Great Article at Techradar

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Stan Barber

Check out IPv4 – this time it’s really over by Nickolas Pendiadtis.

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NIST NCCoE is Hosting a Workshop on IPv6 Enabled Enterprises

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Stan Barber

 

NIST NCCoE will host a workshop on Security for IPv6 Enabled Enterprises.  The focus will be to identify and develop plans to address security challenges / barriers to full IPv6 deployment in enterprise settings.

Please see the call for participation below for more details and to register.
https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/events/security-ipv6-enabled-enterprises

Questions about workshop participation should be sent to: ipv6-transition@nist.gov

 

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Teaching IPv6

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Rocky Mountain IPv6 Taskforce

Teaching IPv6IPv6 Buzz 025: Teaching IPv6 With Instructor And Author Rick Graziani

The IPv6 Buzz podcast often focuses on learning IPv6. On today’s show, we turn that idea around to talk with a renowned instructor about teaching it.

Our guest is Rick Graziani, a CS/CIS instructor at Cabrillo College, adjunct faculty at University of California Santa Cruz, and a 20-year veteran of the Cisco Networking Academy curriculum engineering team.

Rick is also the author of IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6 on Cisco Press (and recently updated with a 2nd edition).

We talk about the differences between teaching college students vs. training IT professionals, how IT and networking are taught in higher education today, and what Rick himself has learned from teaching.

Other topics include:

  • Rick’s approach to teaching IPv6 in classrooms, books, and videos
  • Classroom or academic knowledge vs. practical experience
  • How the community college approach to teaching IPv6 differs from the university setting
  • Challenges his students face with learning IPv6  (as opposed to IPv4)

Thanks for listening!

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Enterprise IPv6 Address Planning Revisited

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Rocky Mountain IPv6 Taskforce

Enterprise IPv6 Address Planning

IPv6 Buzz 024: Enterprise IPv6 Address Planning Revisited

At a recent Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic, IPv6 Buzz co-host Tom Coffeen gave a technical presentation on IPv6 Address Planning.

Unfortunately, Tom ran out of time before he could get through his whole presentation. On today’s episode, Tom gets another crack at it.

Guests Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray join the show to ask follow-up questions and dig into address planning details including:

  • IPv6 nibble boundaries and why they’re so useful for subnetting
  • How to get over an IPv4 mindset when planning for v6
  • Key differences between Provider Independent (PI) and Provider Assigned (PA) address space
  • Recommendations for v6 subnetting tools
  • How enterprise tools for DNS, DHCP, and IPAM are–and aren’t–ready for IPv6

Thanks for listening!

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New Site, New Look

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Stan Barber

The TXv6TF web site is now hosted on WordPress.com. We believe all the content has been moved and properly formatted, but if you find something wrong or missing, please let us know. You can send mail to website@txv6tf.org and I will look at it as soon as possible.

Thanks for your continuing interest and support!

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NANOG 73

Posted on June 25, 2018 by George Usi
IPv6 talks a plenty at NANOG73 in Denver, Colorado.  Stephan Lagerholm speaking about T-Mobile’s operational use of IPv6.  Great examples of application level fallback with Happy Eyeballs.
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Internet Infrastructure Forum IPv6 Advocacy

Posted on February 2, 2018 by California IPv6 Task Force
Internet Infrastructure Forum Event in China advocated IPv6 adoption in Industrial Internets with support from the IPv6 Forum and Internet Pioneers. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/worlds-top-experts-kick-off-internet-infrastructure-forum-iif-300564148.html
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Meeting Notes are Now available from NAv6TF Meeting in Sunnyvale

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Stan Barber

These have been posted to the RMv6TF web site.

See here for more.

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Stan Barber Recognized For Work on NAv6TF Meeting In Sunnyvale

Posted on April 28, 2017 by Stan Barber

Stan Barber was recognized for his contribution to the recent meeting at LinkedIn in Sunnyvale. He was among many folks led by Scott Hogg of RMv6TF that organized the meeting under the North American IPv6 Task Force.

He was recognized for his work organizing the awards ceremony where several North American ISP were recognized for achieving 20% or more IPv6 Utilization on their networks. Stan is pictured with Scott Hogg below.

Scott Hogg and Stan Barber

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NASA & IPv6 – Kevin Jones

Posted on April 26, 2017 by George Usi

Kevin Jones brought us up to speed today on Federal v6 Goals from the FY 2012 bill.  Here are a few of his slides to help us understand OMB initiatives when compared to implementation progress.

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Why Is Microsoft Internal IT Moving to IPv6-Only?

Posted on April 26, 2017 by George Usi

Take a look at Veronika McKillop’s slide to help us understand why her teams at Microsoft are moving to IPv6 Only networks for Internal IT use.

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Microsoft currently has two test IPv6-Only networks in Redmond, WA and also recognized that IPv6 adoption will be supported because of the well known “Microsoft effect” which posits that 85% of global laptop/desktops are windows based IPv6 capable coupled with the fact that millions of devices (ie: servers, Xbox, tables, HoloLens) are designed for IPv6 networks.

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Day 2 NAv6tf Summit

Posted on April 26, 2017 by George Usi
We are getting ready to start Day 2 of the North American IPv6 Task Force Summit. The Yosemite event room at LinkedIn Headquarters is filling up and we are getting started! IMG_3494      IMG_3493 Thank you again to LinkedIn for hosting our event!   Share
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NAv6tf Agenda and Speakers

Posted on April 25, 2017 by George Usi
Want to know who is speaking at the event this year?  Our agenda is posted on this link at RMv6tf.org:   http://www.rmv6tf.org/na-ipv6-summit/2017-north-american-ipv6-event/2017-speakers   Share
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The NAv6TF Meeting is happening today and tomorrow in Sunnyvale, CA

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Stan Barber

Today and tomorrow, people from around the continent are gathering in Sunnyvale, CA to hear more about the status of the migration of the Internet to IPv6. Over 100 people are registered for the event.

After the event, there will be recordings of the talks available for anyone to listen to posted. More details on that will be made available at a later day.

There are several folks attending here from Texas and I am glad to see them.

 

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John Curran NAv6tf Presentation

Posted on April 25, 2017 by George Usi

John Curran’s presentations are always lively, educational and wholly interactive (especially during Q&A).  Today’s presentation at LinkedIn’s Sunnyvale Headquarters was no exception to the rule as John focused on how to build a better IPv6 internet that users will actually be interested in using.  He also reviewed challenges associated with enterprise IPv6 adoption delays.

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His first point discussed ideas on changing the fundamentals of network governance in IPv6 and how it could virtually eliminate botnets, spam, and general NAT headaches.  Notably, those changes and choices would also eliminate a lion-share of demand and spending for boundary security solutions used by many enterprises today.

Moreover, he posited that when considering the end-user perspective on today’s Internet that, “It does not matter what you do [as engineers], the average internet user still sees the same thing when they login [and it’s not the network engineer’s work that moves them].”

He continued by pointing to the attendees in the room reminding us of our accountability and that we, “…are the ones building a new internet on IPv6 yet running it the same way that we ran the IPv4 Internet.”  True, many network engineers, especially in enterprises, are seasoned with v4 habits such as straining to conserve IP addresses.  As such, we run the risk of doing too much subnet-ing with IPv6 resulting in a loss of operational visibility by breaking the rules of nibble boundaries.  Considering most assignment blocks will be assigned as a /32 or /44 with plenty of address space to spare, we really have no excuse to do things incorrectly.

From our perspective, this just proves that we still have a heck a lot of work to do educating network engineers if IPv6 adoption is going to happen at the enterprise level.

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Speaker’s List of NAv6TF meeting has been posted.

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Stan Barber

Please see here.

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IPv6 Campus of the Future from Cisco

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Stan Barber

Check out this post!

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