[ipv6-wg] IPv6-only network during RIPE 71

Hi Sander, Marco, and list,

Sander Steffann <sander at steffann.nl> writes:

> Hi Marco,
>
>> At the moment the actual capacity of the NAT64 network is not
>> known. This means we cannot offer any guarantees on throughput or
>> the number of simultaneous connections supported.

Marco, you still sound like a corporate lawyer:-)

>> Meanwhile, we will gather some basic information such as number of
>> clients connected to the network. Some RIPE NCC staff might use this
>> opportunity to run tests as well. We encourage the community to keep
>> track of any issues reported and to document them together with
>> possible solutions.
>
> This bit disappoints me a bit. [...]

Come on, Sander.  The NCC ops folks (Razvan and his lot) aren't exactly
having a paid vacation trip during a RIPE meeting; they usually look
just as tired as everybody else on friday, so asking for an
unpredictable extra workload isn't exactly fair.

It's not like I wouldn't love to hear the announcement during the
opening plenary that IPv4 is only available wired from a single switch
located in the terminal room, but looks like we'll have a couple rounds
of nagging  to do.


What I'd like to see, and that's well in line with what Marco wrote, is
that we see if we can make as many people as possible actually try the
IPv6 network out.  No longer calling it "experimental" really is an
important step here; talking about this during the opening plenary is
even more important.

Rather than just telling the ops folks what to do or not I really
suggest we help them get the data they need to do the next step, which
is to convince as many people as possible to use the IPv6 network and
then give any feedback they can come up with.

Oh, and one more thing: We might ease things up for ops if we actually
managed to point out during the opening plenary that people with IPv6
stickers on their badges are generally volunteering as
experimental^Winofficial first level IPv6 support...

@Nick: Can we do something about getting maybe 3 minutes worth of time
during the monday plenary for this, or could somebody from the regular
staff do such a quick announcement for us?


Cheers,

    Benedikt

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