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this is obviously a big focus for me on the work front particularly given some of the speaking engagements as of late.  hence, the egg on my face when i realized i’d missed the original announcement that google is supporting IPv6 for app-engine. then i was catching up on some news today and i caught the updated announcement that indicated they were expanding the support IPv6 support and enabling better testing facilities.  additionally, they announced that they were providing a means for folks to support this outside the whitelisted DNS servers. kudos. this brings a host of applications (pun slightly intended) into the IPv6 domain with little or no requirements / on the part of the app developers. it’s just there in the infrastructure.

nicely done googles.

a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away i was perversely interested in audio/video codecs and the xiph program.  now it turns out that google is funding an ARM optimized implementation of the theora protocol, aka Theorarm. personally, i find this interesting given the opportunity to move  video codec function to lower power general purpose CPUs and alleviating some of the hardware requirements for speedy video decode without requiring offload hardware.

interesting sponsorship of an open source program.