Internet and Routing

One of my favorite sites. Insightful monthly articles, papers and presentations, and active views into the public BGP table and IPv4/IPv6 address allocations. Access to a few nice tools, too.

Your first stop when researching IP address statistics and allocation policies.

APNIC
ARIN
RIPE
LACNIC
AfriNIC

The sites of the five Regional Internet Registries. Required reading for anyone keeping up with address allocation issues and statistics, plus some good tutorials and tools.

An excellent list of lists for standards, papers, tutorials, and code on a wide variety of subjects. BGP, MPLS, IPv6, DHCP, VoIP, SSH, IPSec, and many other topics are covered. A good place to begin general research.
IPv6

An extensive, up-to-date listing of IPv6 news and technical articles.

Good worldwide coverage of IPv6 industry news, and a listing of IPv6 Task Forces around the globe.
Case studies, white papers, presentations, and practical technology and design guides. Cisco also has a separate site focused on the Federal government.
Keep up with IPv6 Forum Summits around the world
Articles on Microsoft support and objectives, plus useful information on home routing, Teredo, ISATAP.
News bulletins focusing on IPv6 in the United States government.
IPv6 news, primarily focused on Japan. A good source when you are interested in seeing how IPv6 is being used in practical applications.
News about IPv6 development activities in Japan.
TAHI produces the premier IPv6 conformance test suites used worldwide.
IPv6 stacks for Linux.
IPv6 stacks for FreeBSD and its variants, plus a nifty dancing turtle.
WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) runs numerous R&D projects employing IPv6.
MPLS
Industry news and a good collection of white papers.
Standards Bodies and Working Groups
Your primary source for technical information on IP. You can search for RFPs by number, search for Internet-drafts, or look for RFCs and Internet-drafts by working group.
The IEEE develops and promotes a vast number of standards, although we in the IP field think primarily of Ethernet (IEEE 802.x) and MAC addresses when we think of the IEEE.
The third of the "big three" standardization bodies, (IETF and IEEE being the other two) for IP networkers. Lots more than just IS-IS and the unavoidable OSI model.
The MFA (MPLS, Frame Relay, ATM) Forum works to develop specifications for those three technologies.
The WiMAX Forum promotes and helps specify 802.16 wireless broadband technology.
3GPP focuses on standards development of GSM and related mobile technologies.
 

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