Internet Society Hong Kong celebrated World IPv6 Launch Day on June 6 and as part of the celebrations, released the Consumer Guide: All about IPv6. More information is compiled on the ISOC Hong Kong’s IPv6 website http://www.ipv6now.hk/en/WhatisIPv6.php IPv6 Consumer Guide En

  For all the talk of SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/TPP, there’s another much bigger threat to “the Internet as we know it.” It’s a bunch of countries who are seeking to use the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to create a top-down regulatory scheme for the Internet. # ITU has made persistent attempts to take over many of Read more…

Rebecca MacKinnon is the author of the forthcoming “Consent of the Networked:The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom” and a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation. (She participated as a panelist at the IGF Kenya Workshop on “Enhanced Intra-Stakeholder Diversity and Intra-staekeholder Balance in Multi-Stakeholder Internet Governance”) In an article in Washington Times published today Read more…

              Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012. For more information on this event and for resources, http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ down due to overwhelming response at the moment Read more…

Conversation with Steve Crocker and Vinton Cerf, two of the Internet’s founding fathers. Crocker established protocols necessary for the workings of the Internet, and Cerf, a computer scientist, was instrumental in the development of the first commercial email system. The recorded video is at page http://wwwhatsup.com/c+c/cerf+crocker_smithsonian_11-9-2011.flv A better video may be available after some time.