HostingCon Global 2016 Countdown: What You Need to Know About IPv6 and DNSSEC Adoption
The countdown to HostingCon Global 2016 in New Orleans is on with two days to go before the hosting and cloud industry touches down at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Education is one of the defining aspects of the HostingCon conferences, and with so many excellent sessions and opportunities for learning we wanted to spend this week offering a preview for our readers who are attending HostingCon.
According to the most recent data by Akamai, despite the depletion of IPv4 addresses, there are still 187 countries in the world that have a zero percent adoption rate of IPv6.
The depletion of IPv4 space has been an issue for years, but many service providers ignored the writing on the wall and are still not supporting IPv6. If this sounds like you, don’t worry, HostingCon has a session for you.
ServerHub CEO and HostingCon speaker John Brancela said that over the past year he has seen a lot more IPv6 requests come in, but still the numbers are low, comparatively speaking.
“I think the consumers are getting ready. I’d say we have probably five times more the interest of v6 now than we did last year,” he says.
In a HostingCon panel on Tuesday, Brancela will part of a group discussing IPv6 and DNSSEC, low adoption numbers, and how to increase compliance. The session runs from 9 a.m. to 9:50 a.m. on Tues. July 26, 2016.
“As providers starting chomping through their IPv4 space I think they’re obviously going to be seeing some issues,” he says. “I think the urgency is there now but there are learning curves, and some people are not interested in it but they know they have to do it.”
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Source: TheWHIR