IPv6 in the boardroom

By Terry Sweetser on 13 May 2026

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/05/13/ipv6-in-the-boardroom/

#ipv6 #blog #apnic

IPv6 in the boardroom | APNIC Blog

Guest Post: IPv6 can be seen as an infrastructure refresh, rather than an organizational responsibility tied to governance, risk, and compliance. Reframe it in those terms, and it shifts from a network discussion to a board-level obligation.

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Google hits 50% IPv6 | APNIC Blog

IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.

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IPv6 deployment at APRICOT 2026: Scanning, generative AI, a home network, and a city | APNIC Blog

The APNIC IPv6 Deployment session at APRICOT 2026 highlighted where and how IPv6 is being deployed in our region, the innovations driving deployment, and the challenges that hinder it.

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What you block in #DNS depends strongly on who curates the list. 🤔

That's my takeaway from Branden’s recent #APNIC article on DNS blocking in practice. Especially interesting is how little overlap there was between three blocklists that all aim to identify malicious domains.

Blocking is not just about feeds and tooling, but also about curation, transparency, taxonomy, and context: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/03/04/dns-blocking-in-practice-pdns-in-a-research-and-education-network/

As seen in @andrew_campling ’s weekly "DNS in the News": https://419.consulting/encrypted-dns/f/dns-in-the-news-9th-march-2026

APRICOT 2026 keynotes: Agency, memory, and getting IPv6 done | APNIC Blog

The APRICOT 2026 keynotes set three complementary challenges for the Internet community — use automation without losing agency, preserve the operational record that explains how we got here, and finish the work of IPv6 where it still lags.

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🌗 IPv4 位址「沼澤」:網際網路的新常態
➤ 當例外變成了常態:剖析 IPv4 碎片化對全球路由與安全的深遠影響
https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/23/the-ipv4-address-swamp-the-new-normal/
在 1990 年代,192/8 等區段因充斥著大量且細碎的 /24 位址分配,被網路工程師戲稱為「沼澤」。然而,隨著 IPv4 位址於 2011 年正式耗盡,這種碎片化的現象已不再是局部問題,而是蔓延至整個網際網路。由於位址稀缺,現今的位址分配更趨向於細分化與頻繁交易,導致全球路由表條目激增至百萬級規模。這種「新常態」不僅讓路由聚合變得困難,更因為位址的高度流動性,為網路安全防護與威脅識別帶來了嚴峻的挑戰。
+ 沒想到以前被視為異類的「沼澤」區,現在竟然變成了全球 IPv4 的縮影。看來路由器的記憶體壓力只會越來越大。
+ 雲端巨頭們瘋狂收購並拆分 IP 段,這不僅是市場行為,更直接改變了網際網路的底層結構,這篇文章的分析非常透徹。
#網路架構 #IPv4 枯竭 #路由技術 #網路安全 #APNIC
The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal | APNIC Blog

Guest Post: Has IPv4 allocation improved in the 21st century, or are prefixes becoming smaller and more fragmented? What are the potential impacts on Internet security?

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China reports major IPv6 growth | APNIC Blog

Key findings from the China IPv6 Development Report (2025), released by the Expert Committee for Promoting Large-Scale IPv6 Deployment and Application.

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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

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An awesome guest post: Botnets Never Die on the creativity of #malware developers to be found at #APNIC. It covers details to the #AisuruBotnet, The #AIRASHIBotnet, and how their #C2 communication #protocol works.

Apparnetly, the heartbeat is a client sending cat to the C2 server, and the server responds with meow. Fun and creative.

#DDoS #Aisuru #Airashi #botnets #research #threatintel

Botnets never die | APNIC Blog

Guest Post: An analysis of the large-scale botnet AIRASHI.

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#TIL that #APNIC and #Cloudflare partnered on 1.1.1.1. APNIC had ownership of the two #IPv4 prefixes 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24 - both are anycasted for Cloudflare's #DNS resolver for a while now. In return, APNIC receives valuable insights into DNS behaviour.

More on it in their blog post.

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