Google: IPv6 is easy, not expensive

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032509-google-ipv6-easy.html

Internet Engineering Community Regrets Not Making IPv6 Backwards Compatible With IPv4

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/032509-ipv6-mistake.html?hpg1=bn

Cisco to take on VMWare?

It looks like Cisco has a big announcement next week about virtualization.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031109-ciscos-data-center-push-holds-promise.html

Google May Invent Their Own Router?

According to the SDTimes blog, Google may take away Juniper's largest customer.

http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/01/05/Google-To-Doom-Juniper.aspx

4 Byte Autonomous System Numbers

Starting Jan 1 2009 Arin will allocate 4 Byte ASNs by default, 2 Byte ASNs by request only.

http://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#five1

Cisco support documented here.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/iproute/configuration/guide/irp_bgp_overview.html#wp1055927

Network World Chat on IPv6

These guys try to present a business case for running IPv6.

http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/home/httpd/htdocs/chat/archive/2008/091108-ipv6-strategies-chat.html&pagename=/chat/archive/2008/091108-ipv6-strategies-chat.html&pageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/chat/archive/2008/091108-ipv6-strategies-chat.html&site=lanwan

Policy Change to Payment for CCIE Labs

As of September 6th Cisco will require payment for CCIE lab dates 90 days in advance. Click the link for the official post.

http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/announcements/index.html#policypayment