I couldn't tell you what the official BBC position is on IPv6. But it has been an ongoing agenda item for some months at the Online Operations meetings, and we are well aware that we do have to adopt it sooner rather than later. R&D have been doing some work in the area, and there was (and may still be) a frontend server for the news site accessible over pure IPv6.
How we transition the public facing infrastructure is still up for discussion (using some kind of proxy, a pure implementation or some hybrid of the two) as we have well over a decade of legacy to consider, which has the potential to behave in all sorts of new and exciting ways when exposed to IP addresses greater than 32 bits long :) -- Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist World Service Future Media, Digital Delivery Team - Part of BBC Global News Division * 500NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4PH * bbcworldservice.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mo McRoberts > Sent: 13 August 2010 09:37 > To: BBC Backstage Mailing List > Subject: [backstage] IPv6 questionnaire > > Happy Friday 13th Everybody! > > This month, I'm running a short questionnaire (should only > take a couple of minutes to complete) on IPv6 planning and > adoption in the UK. Not the most exciting of topics, I > realise, but *quite* important in some respects. > > Some of you will undoubtedly have seen this mentioned > elsewhere, and may even have filled it in (if so, thanks!). > For the rest, though, I'd appreciate it if you could take a > couple of minutes to have a look. > Some answers from within bits of the BBC would be grand if > it's at all possible, but I know it's relevant to a number of > others on the list, too. > > You can find the questionnaire at: > > https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDc3MzV3ZjVKd > UZuY2NkQm1BakdJQkE6MQ > > I'll be closing it on Friday 3rd September in time for UKNOF17 > (http://uknof.org.uk/) -- I'm not presenting the results, but > I will be publishing the stats in time for the meeting on the > offchance that there are related sessions on the agenda. > > Cheers! > > M. > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
