Speaking as a network person and someone who is working on from the operations side, we really want to do this and make it work. However, we have a lot of work to do and that's why we can't guarantee we'll make the date. We definitely don't want to commit to something and then miss the launch. Our load balancers all need to be upgraded and we'll have a lot of testing to do.
I'm not sure about all of the backend developer work to be done, either. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Last year I send an email about World IPv6 day [1]. Got some responses, but > nothing really happened and we missed. it. This year we have the World IPv6 > launch and I hope Wikimedia will participate. I wonder if deploying ipv6 has > priority at the Wikimedia Foundation. I put Erik on the cc because he can > probably answer that question. This would be a good way to encourage > innovation [2] > > Maarten > > [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-January/051190.html > [2] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_StrategicPlan2011_24pp.pdf > > Op 24-3-2012 6:13, MZMcBride schreef: > >> Hi. >> >> Someone claiming to be ARIN's President and CEO John Curran posted the >> following to Meta-Wiki recently: >> >> --- >> As many folks are aware, the Internet has been a remarkably successful >> phenomena. One consequence of this success is that the present underlying >> Internet Protocol (IP version 4, or IPv4) is reaching the deployment >> limits >> on the number of devices that can be uniquely addressed. The upper limit >> is >> approx 4.3 Billion devices. To allow the Internet to continue to expand, >> it >> is now necessary to begin using larger IP addresses for servers, these new >> addresses are known as IP version 6, or IPv6. It is particularly important >> for major Internet content providers to make this transition, since new >> users are now being connected with IPv6 and must go through transition >> gateways to reach sites which are not using both IPv4 and IPv6. >> >> On 6 June 2012, nearly one thousand web sites are permanently turning on >> IPv6 as part of the Internet Society's "World IPv6 Launch" >> event. http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ This includes Google, Facebook, and >> other major providers. Wikipedia has been working on IPv6 support for some >> time, and it would be good if a commitment to having IPv6 by this date >> could >> be made. >> >> /John >> John Curran, President and CEO, ARIN 12.174.51.2 00:37, 22 March 2012 >> (UTC) >> --- >> >> Source: >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&oldid=3588620#Transi >> tion_of_the_Internet_from_IPv4_to_IPv6_.26_Wikipedia_support_for_IPv6 >> >> Any thoughts on this from ops? >> >> MZMcBride >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
