Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

IETF Chair wrote:
> Dear Colleagues:
> 
> How dark is the IPv6 Internet?  Let's find out.
> 
> During the IESG/IAOC Plenary at IETF 71, we are going to turn off IPv4
> support on the IETF network for 30 to 60 minutes.  We will encourage the
> audience to use the Internet and determine which services that they have
> come to take for granted remain available.

Note that unless hosts flush their dhcp leases and ipv4 default routes
this actually will look more like an ipv4 transit outage on a dual-stack
supporting network then it will an ipv6 only network... While I think
it's a perfectly reasonable exercise I think it's better to aim to
simulate the latter rather than the former (which is operational rather
than architectural issues).

> If you are from a service provider, we encourage you to make your service
> a bright spot on the IPv6 Internet.
> 
> To facilitate this experiment, a URL with instructions on how to get IPv6
> running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and so on.  Some information will
> also be available for a 4-to-6 tunnel.
> 
> We will ask everyone to list things that work and things that do not. The
> results will be part of the proceedings for the plenary session.
> 
> We will make more information about the structuring of this activity over
> the next few weeks.  Please do whatever you can to make ready ...
> 
> Russ Housley
> IETF Chair
> 
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