Busan, 23 October 2014 – ITU’s 19th Plenipotentiary Conference roundly endorsed Houlin Zhao of China as its next Secretary-General. Zhao will take office on 1 January 2015 for a term of four years, with the possibility of re-election for one additional four-year term. The election took place in Busan, Republic of Korea, during the Plenary …
Washington Post: The latest battle over who should run the Internet will be waged in the South Korean port city of Busan over the next three weeks. For U.S. officials headed to the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference, the goal is simple: prevent a vote. In short, the State Department’s approach is this: Convince the representatives of …
Facing the shortage of IPv4 addresses, and glacial adoption of IPv6, UK ISP PlusNet is looking for volunteers among its customers to test out sharing the IPv4 addresses on its network. The technique being tested by PlusNet uses a NAT (Network Address Translator) to share a single internet-facing IP address between multiple customers, eking out …
RIPE’s exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses means that moving forward, “each LIR (Local Internet Registry) can receive only one /22 (1,024 IPv4 addresses) upon application for IPv4 resources,” Read More
Earlier today, the RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) announced it is down to its last “/8” worth of IPv4 addresses. Read More
Advocates around the world are organizing to work against potential threats that such a change could bring to Internet openness. Advocates and experts believe that citizens can have an impact by urging their national governments to support proposals that will protect the open Internet. Read More
The Durban Internet Exchange (Dinx), located at data centre operator Teraco’s Riverhorse Valley facility, joins the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (Jinx) and the Cape Town Internet Exchange (Cinx) as the third dedicated exchange in SA to go live. Read More
There is a belief that a shared environment, between fixed line and mobile, will be the most likely scenario going forward. There is a big push behind rich media application and integration, including video on demand and interactive video/ content provision Read More
Local awareness and adoption of IPv6 – the ‘next generation’ Internet addressing schema – appears to be maturing, with a recent survey by the IPv6 Task Force indicating an increase in the number of New Zealand organisations planning to implement the protocol. Read More
According to ICANN’s second and latest New gTLD Update for Applicants, six applications have been withdrawn although officially it is not known which ones. And a tentative roadmap has been published that, if it holds, would see the new gTLD online in August 2013. Read More