Hello everyone, with recent IT-related announcements regarding the forthcoming London 2012 Olympics, I am trying to establish, from the front-lines, what exactly is going on at ground level regarding IT arrangements and the use of the Olympics as a technology showcase for the UK IT Industry.
As you know, the Beijing Olympics made extensive use of IPv6. The London 2012 organising committee has not, so far, made it known whether its telecommunications infrastructure will use IPv6. Of course, and the Chinese organising committee had rightly understood this, it would make perfect sense to use IPv6 to showcase UK IT businesses. A few colleagues and I at ISOC England, have been pondering about the following questions: 1. Will Akamai, hosting the London2012.com Olympic Web site, host it in Dual Stack? 2. Will the wired connectivity service which BT is offering to journalists, for a fee up to £150 for the month, be IPv4/IPv6 dual stack? 3. Will the free WIFI service just announced by O2 for the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea be running in dual stack v4/v6? Presumably this is brand new infrastructure. We've asked several people individually and nobody appears to really know. It wonder if anyone here knows definite answers on this. A "no, no, no" answer would be a real shame and an opportunity missed for the UK IT industry. Warmest regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html
