[ipv6-wg] IPv6 Only Testbed at RIPE68

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to Warsaw. Following the discussion at RIPE 66, and a successful experoment in Athens last autumn, the IPv6 Working Group is happy to provide you with an experimental network that is configured to offer only IPv6. Please note this experimental network is not supported by the RIPE NCC or RIPE 68 Technical Team.

We encourage everybody to connect to this network and test any websites, applications, hardware and software, and verify that they operate when an IPv4 address is no longer available.

Important: This network is an experiment and is offered on a best-effort basis. We will try to maintain sufficient service levels and are happy to look into and help troubleshoot any issues you may encounter. If you rely on network connectivity for important business, we recommend you connect to the regular RIPE Meeting network.

How to connect:

- Make sure IPv6 is enabled on your device
- Connect to SSID: IPV6ONLYEXP (5GHz) or IPVONLYEXP2.4 (2.4 GHz)
- Enter the password: iknowbesteffort

The network provides NAT64 translation to connect to legacy services – please use the name server provided by the network to make use of this feature. We suggest you leave IPv4 enabled as this will be the scenario for most end users.

If you have any feedback or questions please try and find me or post it to this list. Of course we also welcome any feedback during our working group sessions on Thursday.

And once again big thanks to Andrew Yourtchenko, Cisco and the RIPE NCC staff who helped setting this up and provided the necessary equipment and software.

Greetings,

Marco Hogewoning
co-chair of the IPv6 working group