[ipv6-wg] IPv6 experiments at future RIPE Meetings

James,

On 2010-02-02 15:18, James Aldridge wrote:
> Reading the minutes of the IPv6 WG at RIPE 59 I read:
>> David asked the audience if the IPv6 Hour should be rerun at future
>> meetings.. There is consensus that it should be.
> 
> Rob Blokzijl has asked that we treat the RIPE Meeting network as a
> production network. This effectively means that we won't be turning off
> the dual-stack network for another "IPv6 Hour".

Sure, makes sense.

> What we can do is to build the IPv6 only networks as we did in Berlin
> and make these available to anyone who wants to use them, but without
> the complications caused by the IPv6 Hour.
> 
> One question that remains is whether, with rfc2766 now "historic",
> providing NAT-PT on the IPv6-only networks is worthwhile for RIPE 60 and
> future meetings.  Would it be enough just to provide the IPv6 networks
> but without any translation to be able to reach the IPv4 legacy Internet?
> 
> Any feedback would be appreciated.

For the IPV6-only with translation, we should consider one of the
transition tools now available. ISC (my company, although I have had no
involvement with this software) just released AFTR:

https://www.isc.org/software/aftr

It's open source, gratis, libre, and so on.


I do think RIPE meetings should switch to RFC 1918 addresses for both
IPv4/IPv6 and IPv4-only networks ASAP. These are heavily used, even in
production networks. Probably too late for the next RIPE meeting, but
shouldn't be a problem for subsequent ones.

--
Shane