Re: [v6ops] Are we competitive?

On Jul 28, 2022, 12:26 PM +0400, shogunx@sleekfreak.ath.cx, wrote:
> Bell Labs gave UNIX to universities to make sure that they had a
> forthcoming generation of engineers that they could hire. Are we properly
> supporting IPv6 education in universities, so that the next generation
> does not require a full time technical specialist to deploy and/or
> maintain a v6 or dual stack network?

At AFRINIC, we’re tackling this challenge with what we call U-Connect program. Here’s how it works.

A university professor applies and if we accept them, we create a cohort for them afrinic.academy (do check it out, got some really good IPv6 courses free of charge)

We follow up with live weekly Q&A sessions or labs via Zoom.

At the end, the students can opt to take and pass the IPv6 Forum certification through certi6.io

We’ve done about 5 universities and 400 students for the first round. Looking to scale this next year.

>
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2022, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
> > Following the ongoing discussion about "IPv6-only" and why sites are still
> > IPv4-only, I have a question: Are we competitive?
> >
> > Of course, we MUST NOT talk about pricing at the IETF, but it isn't hard to
> > find the monthly costs of, say, an IPv4 /20, and it's a great deal less than
> > the cost of one full time technical specialist. Can we make it so easy for a
> > site to switch to IPv6 usage that it's cheaper than that, considering all
> > kinds of OPEX?
> >
> > Regards
> > Brian
> >
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