Author: IPv6 Council Team

First Meeting of IPv6 Council Location:UCL Campus of Woluwe-St-Lambert Date: 16 of February 2011. Welcome, Gunter Van de Velde Gunter is happy, first NL IPv6 task force was 7 people 3 years ago, we are many more for our first meeting. Our goal is to push IPv6 deployment in Belgium including IPv6 news in the […]

This Thursday the Authority in charge of all IPv4 addresses used worldwide on the Internet has allocated the last available big blocks of addresses to the regional authorities. There are no more IPv4 addresses available on a worldwide basis. Therefore it is important that all concerned parties in Belgium acts swiftly to deploy and to […]

Dear Belgian IPv6 Council member, The IPv4 time-clock is ticking faster and faster and we need to get ‘things moving’ in Belgium to avoid being left over. As you know, the last IPv4 /8 blocks will be allocated any time soon and at the latest in March 2011. Gunter Van de Velde and Olivier Bonaventure […]

Here are a few words from my co-worker (David Lamotte) & me (Vincent Seynhaeve) to present what we did and are doing at www.multitel.be in IPv6. The goal is to share our experience. We have a static tunnel thanks to SixXSs since 2008 and we’re using router advertisements in our LAN (in fact in our […]

Was geschieht, wenn eine Webseite einen IPv6-Zugang zusätzlich zum IPv4-Zugang aktiviert? Nicht im Bereich der technischen Schritte, die nótig sind (IPv6 im Kernel konfigurieren, AAAA im DNS hinzufügen, den Log auf IPv6-Einträge überprüfen), sonder eher die Konsequenzen der IPv6-Aktivierung… Es gibt in der Tat einige Betriebssysteme/Internet-Browser, die einen IPv6-Zugang bevorzugen zum IPv4, selbst wenn die […]

Here is the list of individuals and organizations actively support the goals and activities of the Belgian IPv6 Council (in addition of the chairmen of course) [fr] Voici la liste des individus et des organisations qui supportent activement les buts et les activités de l’IPv6 Council belge (en plus du président et co-président bien sûr): […]

I’m network team leader at University of Liege, and Eric Vyncke encouraged me to drop you a line on our IPv6 deployment status. I hope to read from your own IPv6 deployments in order to compare our experiences and help each other advance. We’ve been running IPv6 for a few years on the IT staff […]

As far as the council members know, there is only one Belgian Internet Service Providers (in addition to Belnet of course) offering an IPv6 service: Verizon Business. While pilot projects can start (and should start) without waiting by using a free tunnel broker such as sixxs.net or tunnelbroker.net, in order to have a production quality […]

What happens when a web site enables IPv6 access in addition to IPv4 access? Not talking here about the technical steps (configuring IPv6 in the kernel, adding a AAAA to DNS, checking whether logs include IPv6) but rather on the consequences… There are indeed a couple of OS/browsers which could prefer IPv6 rather than IPv4 […]