[ipv6-wg] IPv6-only network during RIPE 71

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:02:52AM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:46:02AM +0100, Ond??ej Caletka wrote:
> > I think the technology is mature enough to be provided as a regular RIPE
> > NCC service during the meeting - that means regular network name and,
> > most important, a password that is propagated in the same way the normal
> > Wi-Fi network password is. This is especially important for the one
> > third of newcomers that have had a big troubles learning the password of
> > the IPV6ONLYEXP network.
> > 
> > After RIPE 70, I proposed a "drastic" approach [1], renaming the
> > dual-stack meeting network to -legacy and promote the NAT64 network as
> > the default. This is the same way they do it on FOSDEM since 2014 [2].
> > But maybe we could try a slow start first, keeping the dual-stacked
> > network the default and offering the NAT64 network with some suffix like
> > -v6only.
> 
> I'm with you that we should no longer market the IPv6-only as "this is an
> experiment, it will not work, and is unreliable anyway, so use on your
> own risk!" network.  This is what Internet looks like on more and more
> mobile networks already today - time to get used to it.

+1

> OTOH, I'm not sure whether it should be default - can Android cope with
> IPv6-only networks today?  If yes, then go for it :-) - if not, maybe not
> this year...

If not, Android users could use this "-legacy" network the same way like
so called "pioneers" use this "experimental" one last time at RIPE
Meeting.

Piotr

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