"Did I leave the light on when leaving the house?" 5 kilometres from home, Nathalie Trenaman finds the answer to her question via her mobile phone. In her spare time, she implemented the IPv6 protocol onto home devices to try to figure out if IPv6 is the driver behind the Internet of Things?
News and Research articles on IPv6
Is Slovenia at the avant-garde of communications policy? One says yes, the next says no. Where lies the thruth? Read the first of our country-by-country series on smaller countries in Europe and their approaches, ideas and implementation of internet policy.
Can smaller countries in Europe only copy and past from the legislation of the EU or other big players, or are they in a position to provide fresh ideas for innovation in policy development? This new series by the Internet Policy Review checks on it.
For many years the internet address registry for Europe and the Middle East RIPE has managed a scarce resource: IPv4 addresses. Since September, IPv4 addresses have run out. At the 66th meeting of the RIPE community in Dublin this week, discussions addressed the question of whether the end of the IPv4 protocol should also mean abandoning the “needs based principle” in allocating addresses. If so, could this serve as a stepping-stone for the new IPv6 protocol?
About 1,000 internet policy specialists are currently discussing internet related issues at the 5th World Telecom Policy Conference in Geneva (WTPF). While only non-binding “opinions” on “internet related public policy issues” are on the agenda, the conference is seen as a stepping stone towards potential changes in the future mandate of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the role of governments in internet governance.