Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

[Franck Martin <[e-mail]>]

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/121707-how-feds-are-dropping-the-ball-side-1.html

Seems to me IETF71 will be very close to the US deadline:

"*U.S. federal agencies must meet a mandate to be capable of supporting
IPv6 on their backbone networks by June 2008. But carriers tell me that
only 10% or 15% of federal agencies are actually buying IPv6 service"

*It is my understanding that IETF network has been IPv4 and IPv6 during
most meetings for a while now and more often with access to an IPv6
backbone (no tunnel)?

I tried to configure my laptop at IETF70 to use IPv6, I could see my
cards with valid IPv6 addresses, but it was not obvious to get it all
working... So decided to report it for later...

I'm very curious on the results of this experiment. What is 30mn to talk
about IPv6 when all are focused on getting it to work on their own
machines. May be people will go back with IPv6 enabled laptops where
they can test if their applications are working on IPv6 too.

Key people can be prepared, the jabber rooms must be IPv6 and IPv4
accessible already, so it means people outside the meeting will be able
to get to them with IPv4, people at the meeting will have to use IPv6 to
get to them. Just ensure that the rapporteurs are familiar with IPv6.

ICANN can be involved, to ensure the DNS works before the experiment, etc...

Etc...

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