John, I don't know much about IPv6, but think this is a really important topic for IT people. Thanks for trying to get this organized.
Chrsi On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:26 AM, John Abreau <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to schedule several BLU meetings about IPv6 for next year, > and I'm looking > for speakers who can give the kinds of presentations I think would be > useful. > > We had a talk last November, but it fell short of what I had hoped > for. I was looking > for presentations where the target audience is people who have already > decided > they want to migrate to IPv6, and are asking how to proceed. > > The talk we actually got was interesting and informative, but it didn't > address > the correct audience. The talk we got focused on persuading a > reluctant audience > that they really need to start planning to migrate to IPv6, and it > didn't really offer > any useful details on how to proceed. > > For starters, I've come up with three basic scenarios I'd like to explore: > > 1. A home user with 1-2 desktops, a few laptops/iPhones/Android devices, > maybe a NAS or Tivo, and a Linksys wireless router that can support DD-WRT; > > 2. A small office with 1-2 Linux servers and maybe a dozen desktops and > laptops > possibly supporting a mix of Linux, Windows, and MacOS. > > 3. A larger enterprise with several locations in different cities; > dozens of servers > including Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc; desktop, laptops, > smartphones, > etc including a mix of Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android, etc. > > To keep things simple, I think it makes sense to focus on migrating from a > pure IPv4 network to a dual-stack network for these scenarios. Even with > this > focus, I imagine it would still take several meetings to cover the basics. > > Can anyone recommend speakers who can give these kinds of HOWTO talks? > > Thanks! > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Chris O'Connell http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
