This page contains some news quotes about Google for year 2011.
World IPv6 Day: firing up the engines on the new Internet protocol
January 12, 2011
"Google and major websites are joining the Internet Society to announce World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour test flight of the next generation Internet protocol on June 8, 2011."
"The story begins in 1977, when Vint Cerf, the program manager for the ARPA Internet research project (and now one of the driving forces behind Google’s IPv6 efforts), chose a 32-bit address format for an experiment in packet network interconnection. Who would have thought that the experiment would evolve into today’s Internet: a global network connecting billions of people, some using handheld devices faster than the mainframes of the 1970s?"
"For more than 30 years, 32-bit addresses have served us well, but now the Internet is running out of space. IPv6 is the only long-term solution, but as the chart below shows, it has not yet been widely deployed. With IPv4 addresses expected to run out in 2011, only 0.2% of Internet users have native IPv6 connectivity"
"Google has been supporting IPv6 since early 2008, when we first began offering search over IPv6. Since then we’ve brought IPv6 support to YouTube and have been helping ISPs enable Google over IPv6 by default for their users."
"On World IPv6 Day, we’ll be taking the next big step. Together with major web companies such as Facebook and Yahoo!, we will enable IPv6 on our main websites for 24 hours. This is a crucial phase in the transition, because while IPv6 is widely deployed in many networks, it’s never been used at such a large scale before. We hope that by working together with a common focus, we can help the industry prepare for the new protocol, find and resolve any unexpected issues, and pave the way for global deployment."
"The good news is that Internet users don’t need to do anything special to prepare for World IPv6 Day. Our current measurements suggest that the vast majority (99.95%) of users will be unaffected. However, in rare cases, users may experience connectivity problems, often due to misconfigured or misbehaving home network devices. Over the coming months we will be working with application developers, operating system vendors and network device manufacturers to further minimize the impact and provide testing tools and advice for users."
"We hope that many other websites will join us in participating in World IPv6 Day. Changing the language spoken by every device on the Internet is a large task, but it’s essential to ensure the future of an open and robust Internet for decades to come."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/world-ipv6-day-firing-up-engines-on-new.html
World IPv6 Day has Facebook, Google & Yahoo Support
January 12, 2011
"Yes, we all know we need to convert our networks and Web sites over to IPv6, but no one wants to be the first. Well, now the Internet Society, the non-profit organization supporting Internet standards, education, and policy-making, is trying to solve the problem for us by getting many major Internet Web powers such as Facebook, Google, and Yahoo! and important content delivery network (CDN) providers, including Akamai and Limelight Network to use IPv6 on June 8, 2011."
"According to The Internet Society, “The goal of the Test Drive Day is to motivate organizations across the industry - Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies - to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.”"
"Today, only a few Web sites, ISPs, and CDNs support IPv6. Martin Levy, director of IPv6 strategy for Hurricane Electric, an IPv6 specialist that provides ISP backbone and co-location services, said today that there are only a handful of sites and CDNs that support IPv6. These include Google; Netflix, to a degree; Germany’s Heise Online; Facebook at www.v6.facebook.com; and Limelight."
"Specifically, the Society hopes World IPv6 Day will “expose potential issues under controlled conditions and address them as soon as possible. The vast majority of users should be able to access services as usual, but in rare cases, mis-configured or misbehaving network equipment, particularly in home networks, may impair access to participating websites during the trial. Current estimates are that 0.05% of users may experience such problems, but participating organizations will be working together with operating system manufacturers, home router vendors and ISPs to minimize the number of users affected. Participants will also be working together to provide tools to detect problems and offer suggested fixes in advance of the trial.”"
"This needs to be done because, again of that chicken and egg problem. It’s all well and good for you Web site to support IPv6, but what if your network doesn’t support it? What about your end-users? It’s all well and good to say that there shouldn’t be any problems, but I think we’re all smart enough to know that that won’t be the case. It never is when you make a major network infrastructure change."
"As Donn Lee, a Facebook network engineer, explained on Facebook’s page on World IPv6 day, “Testing IPv6 is important because recent studies indicate about 0.05% of Internet users (1 in 2,000) can’t reliably connect to websites that enable both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (known as “dual-stacked” websites. This has resulted in a classic chicken-and-egg puzzle right now: websites don’t want to enable IPv6 because a small number of their users may have trouble connecting. At the same time, doing nothing means that ever more users will have trouble connecting to these dual-stacked websites.”"
"Do you want to get involved? You can. You should."
"If you run a Website, you can do it by making your site IPv6 accessible using dual stack technology and obtain an AAAA Domain Name System (DNS) record for your site. Your site will should still be available to the IPv4 Internet."
"As an ISP, you’re going to be participating in this trial one way or the other-it’s not like your customers are going to stop trying to use Facebook, Google, and Yahoo. According to the Internet Society, “The most important thing for you to do is to advise your customer support organization. You should have plans in place to explain the event to customers, and to troubleshoot if problems arise. You should consider customer outreach. You may want to post a version of the IPv6 test page on your customer-facing servers, with tips for fixing problems encountered. Once you’ve done that, you might send notices to customers inviting them to test their service ahead of time. If you provide gateway routers to your customers, you should test their functionality, to make sure user equipment behind them responds appropriately when content is available over dual-stack.”"
"For more information on participating on World IPv6 Day check out the Internet Society How to Join page. If you need more information on how to use IPv6, I highly recommend for anyone working on IPv6 that they read the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 document."
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/world-ipv6-day-has-facebook-google-yahoo-support/542
World IPv6 Day
"How to Participate"
"Internet users will not need to do anything different on World IPv6 Day. Web services, Internet service providers, and OS manufacturers will be updating their systems to ensure Internet users enjoy uninterrupted service. In rare cases, users may still experience connectivity issues when visiting participating Websites. Users can visit an IPv6 test site to check if their connectivity will be impacted. If the test indicates a problem, they can disable IPv6 or ask their ISPs to help fix the problem."
"Website Owners"
"If you'd like to bring your company's website online using IPv6 during the World IPv6 Day you'll need to make it IPv6 accessible using dual stack technology and provide a AAAA record for the site. IPv4 websites will of course continue to be accessible over IPv4 during the event. Contact us and provide us some information about your plans to participate and we will add your site to the list of participating sites."
"This is a 24 hour event June 8, 2011, from 0000 to 2359 UTC. Websites will be operating over IPv6 for 24 hours on this date. On the day of the event we will provide a status dashboard of websites that have said they will participate. You'llbe able to check a website's IPv6 accessibility on the status dashboard."
"Join Us"
"Please contact us to indicate your interest in participating in World IPv6 Day and to have your company added to the list of participating organisations."
http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/how-to-join/
Last modified: January 12th, 2011
Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)
URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/news-quotes-google-2011
Back to news index. List of changes.