"Comcast plans to enter into broadband IPv6 technical trials later this year and into 2010," TBarry Tishgart, VP of Internet Services for Comcast tells Internet News. "Planning for general deployment is underway." Despite the endless reports about how the United States was a gluttonous consumer of iPv4 addresses that would run out in 2011 or 2012, news on this front has been relatively quiet the last year given the sour economy. One Comcast insider in Michigan tells Broadband Reports the company is already testing some closed network routes of IPv6.

This week found Uncle Sam once again insisting that the migration to IPv6 was a priority as the government released its latest roadmap (pdf) to get us all safely to IPv6 -- sometime. The 4.3 billion current IP addresses will be running out sooner than later, and despite our disproportionate consumption of said addresses, we've been among the slower countries to do something about it. As many of you know IPv6 delivers nearly as many 128-bit IP addresses as there are stars in the sky.

• No IPv6 For UK Broadband Users [aaisp.blogspot.com]
• Delaware court stays iPCS-Sprint suit over WiMax [businessweek.com]
• Tackle broadband 'duopoly', UK regulator Ofcom urged [computerweekly.com]
• Portland Seizes MetroFi Muni Wi-Fi Gear [xchangemag.com]
• Quantum cryptography now a reality [theinquirer.net]
• TiVo Collects $104 Million From EchoStar [multichannel.com]
• Time Warner Cable Brings Web Video to TV in Hawaii [cable360.net]
• Porn, abuse, depravity - and how they plan to stop it [theregister.co.uk]

Arbor Networks tracked 15 exabytes worth of Internet traffic from June 2007 through June 2008, and found that the amount of inter-domain IPv6 traffic measured over the entire year was just 0.0026 percent of overall IPv4 traffic. In other words, we're not migrating to the new spec quickly enough before we run out of IPv4 addresses -- something that's expected to happen in 2011. "I don't think anyone thinks that there is a migration happening," said Scott Iekel-Johnson, lead study author and principal software engineer for Arbor. "There doesn't seem to be a pickup in usage across any significant portion" of the regions tracked by the study, he notes.

• Ericsson and Lenovo Doing Mobile Broadband [DigitalTrends.com]
• UK regulator says if Brits want faster network, they will have to pay to build it [UK Broadband User Group]
• Greek government aims to make country a broadband hub by linking Europe and Middle East through new underwater cables [Nasdaq.com]
• A New Slant on VoIPo3G [SeekingAlpha.com]
• IP Version 6 switches on [ComputerWeekly.com]
• BitTorrent admin's police bail extended (again) as police gather more evidence [The Register]
• Congress To Hold Antitrust Hearing On Microsoft's Yahoo Bid [InformtionWeek.com]
• ActiveX Under Seige: Facebook, MySpace Image Uploaders Vulnerable [eWeek]

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Harrisonburg, VA has made headlines for its work towards becoming the first city with a citywide IPv6 network but what does it mean to be a trailblazer in this area? It means, in part, that there are no examples to work from so when problems come up with realizing the new system, it’s up to Harrisonburg to figure them out. But they seem to be rising to the challenge; when they needed to figure out how to incorporate both existing and new IP standards into the network, they simply made the new software themselves. If it goes well, this could put Harrisonburg on the map as one of the most forward-thinking Internet cities in the U.S.