Dear IETF Community: On Saturday, February 22, we will be re-executing the cutover of all IETF services to our new virtual production server group. These new servers contain the latest version of the Linux operating system on which they run, a new Linux kernel, new versions of many of the open source software packages we've come to know and love, and Python 3.6, opening the door for the Tools Team to work additional magic with the software packages they continue developing for the community. Last month, when we performed this process the first time, the process took about one hour, and to my delight, almost everything worked without any issues at all. We did have some minor issues with the registration system, now corrected, and we had an errant Python script that ran overnight causing some data loss, which has also been corrected. So I'm actually more confident this time, having seen than pretty much all of our other services survived the upgrade without a hitch. Nonetheless, this operation is significant, and will involve the shutdown of services, a transfer of data, and the subsequent activation of the new servers.
While the process itself will begin earlier, there will be a visible one-hour outage window beginning at 9AM Pacific Time (Noon Eastern, 5PM GMT, overnight elsewhere), Saturday February 22. During this window, some services will be interrupted at different intervals. Email and list transport will stop before 9AM, and remain down for most of the window, while web and Datatracker will be down for shorter intervals during the window. The presence or absence of any one service should not imply expectations for other services during this interval. Once we're finished, we will perform a complete reboot, after which the new servers will be brought online. As a part of our testing, we'll send an announcement out again when the work is completed. Although we've all done quite a bit of work on this (and been through the process once already) there may still be problems we have not yet been able to identify. Both AMS and the Tools Team will be performing additional checks and testing post-cutover, and we will work to correct any identified issues as quickly as possible. We ask for your patience with this process. As always, if you have questions or concerns, you can direct them to the IETF-ACTION desk ( ietf-act...@ietf.org ) which I supervise, or you can contact me directly via email or Jabber at: g...@amsl.com , or Telegram or Wire at @glenams . Thank you for your patience as we work together to continue to improve the IETF's online presence, infrastructure and services. Glen -- Glen Barney IT Director AMS (IETF Secretariat) _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce