IPv6 Working Group

The IPv6 Working Group is focused both on understanding how IPv6 will enable Internet2 to achieve its goals and on promoting and coordinating the deployment of IPv6 throughout the Internet2 infrastructure.

The Internet2 IPv6 Working Group aims to make IPv6 an effective tool for the Internet2 community and, in so doing, to contribute to the IPv6 work in the broader Internet by exercising, proliferating, and improving IPv6 infrastructure and software in the Internet2 context.

Publications

> IPv6 Infosheet
> KanREN Community Experiences as Early IPv6 Adopters
> ICANN attacks 'fat and happy' IPv4 users, ZDNet.co.uk, 9 May 2008
> Your Number's Up, The Economist, 5 June 2008
> Migrating to IPv6: A Practical Guide for Mobile and Fixed Networks, by Marc Blanchet
> IPv6 Summit Reaches Pinnacle, by Scott Hogg

Presentations

> IPv4 Depletion and Migration to IPv6, presented by John Curran, Chairman, of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN). Windows Media archive of presentation (Curran's talk begins at 19:00 in the archive).

Events & Activities

> ARIN takes to the road for networking and education events in Phoenix and Raleigh on 17 and 19 August, 2010.

IPv6 Challenge at Winter 2009 Joint Techs:

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Working Group Meetings

The next face-to-face IPv6 Working Group meeting will take place in conjunction with the Fall 2010 Internet2 Member Meeting. Details will be posted as they become available.

Training

> Workshop Schedule
> Archive of past workshops

Resources & Initiatives

> ARIN IPv6 Wiki
> SNMP Network Anaylsis and Presentation Package
> IPv6 Status Survey of Internet2 Member Community
> IPv6 and the Rural Health Care Pilot Program [pdf]
> IPv6 version of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games website
> IPv6 version of Google
> ANL open source software mirror, mirror.anl.gov has turned up IPv6 connectivity.

Some key activities of the IPv6 Working Group include:

Through education and workshops, provide campus engineers the information they need to deploy and support IPv6 within their campuses.
Clarify, both for campus decision-makers and for IPv6 leaders, why IPv6 is valuable, in strategic and in practical terms, to the Internet2 user community and why they should apply limited resources from within the campus to deployment and integration of IPv6.