As mentioned last week -- the wiki is now accessible: http://wiki.tools.isoc.org/IETF71_IPv4_Outage
Thanks, Leslie. Leslie Daigle wrote: > > Hi, > > To the basic question of the IPv4 outage -- preparations are > indeed underway, to implement it as Russ described on 12/22/2007[1]. > > Early next week, there will be a wiki page accessible specifically > for our event, providing more detail and more pointers. In the > meantime, if you have specific comments, you can send comments to > the team Russ set up[2]. > > In the meantime, NANOG and APRICOT have had similar events. You > can see some of the data captured here: > > http://www.civil-tongue.net/grandx/ > > and some writeups: > > http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25276 > http://www.circleid.com/posts/82283_ipv6_hour_ipv4_switched_off/ > > > Leslie. > > > [1] > [On December 22, 2007, Russ Housley wrote:] >> Following the mail list discussion, we have considered several different >> configurations for achieving the desired network experiment environment. >> It is important that everyone have adequate opportunity for advance >> configuration, and it is important that severe impact on other network >> resources at the meeting venue be avoided. With these goals in mind, we >> intend to add an additional IPv6-only subnet, with a different SSID on >> the wireless network. The SSID will include some clever name that >> includes the string "v6ONLY". This SSID will be available on all the >> wireless access points throughout the venue for the entire week. >> Everyone is encouraged to try using this network well before the plenary >> session. Neighbors and friends are encouraged to help each other debug >> problems, and the kind folks at the help desk in the Terminal Room will >> also be happy to assist with any configuration challenges, IPv6-related >> or otherwise. > > > > [2] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >> What's going on with the preparations to turn off IPv4 at IETF-71? >> It's been really quiet surrounding that topic since the initial >> discussion. >> >> Because I've had an IPv6 mail server for years and a WWW proxy that >> allows IPv6-only hosts to get access to the IPv4 web is fairly >> trivial to set up (tip for XP users: XP can't do DNS lookups over >> IPv6, use Firefox and configure it with the IPv6 address of the >> proxy), my preperation for this has been mostly getting Jabber to >> work over IPv6. >> >> A while ago I managed to find a public Jabber server that is >> reachable over IPv6 (amessage.de with some other domains pointing to >> the same server). Unfortunately, the client I generally use, Apple's >> iChat, does support Jabber over IPv6 when there is IPv4 connectivity, >> but when the system has no IPv4 address it says that "you're not >> connected to the internet" and doesn't try to connect over IPv6. >> Recently I thought this was fixed but it turned out that the >> Parallels Desktop virtualization enviroment sets up a bunch of >> virtual interfaces with private addresses, which is enough for iChat >> to work over IPv6. >> >> Anyway, I started looking for Jabber clients that support IPv6. Most >> don't, but there are so many Jabber clients that there is actually a >> choice of ones that do. Unfortunately, none of them could connect to >> the jabber.ietf.org rooms. I first thought this was because of the >> clients, so I didn't keep a list of clients that support IPv6. But it >> turned out that this is a problem with my iljitsch at amessage.nl >> account on the amessage.de server, which doesn't seem IPv6-related. >> >> So... does anyone know a place to obtain a Jabber account that's >> usable over IPv6? I assumed psg.com would be a good candidate, but >> even though psg.com has a AAAA record, jabber.psg.com doesn't. >> _______________________________________________ >> IETF mailing list >> IETF@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Reality: Yours to discover." -- ThinkingCat Leslie Daigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
