On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 14:13, Gareth Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 :)
Thanks Gareth -- you've been tremendously useful! 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]/
