IPv6 Working Group

Publications

> ICANN attacks 'fat and happy' IPv4 users, ZDNet.co.uk, 9 May 2008

> Your Number's Up, The Economist, 5 June 2008

> Migrating to IPv6: A Practical Guide for Mobile and Fixed Networks, by Marc Blanchet

Presentations

> IPv4 Depletion and Migration to IPv6, presented by John Curran, Chairman, of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN). Windows Media archive of presentation (Curran's talk begins at 19:00 in the archive).

Events and Activities

Working Group Meetings:

> The next IPv6 Working Group meeting will take place in conjunction with the Fall 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting, date and time TBD

Training:

> Internet2 IPv6 Workshop, 3-5 June 2008 at University of California, Irvine

> Complete list of upcoming and past workshops

Resources and Initiatives

> IPv6 Status of Internet2 Member Community

> IPv6 and the Rural Health Care Pilot Program [pdf]

> IPv6 version of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games website

> IPv6 version of Google

IPv6 Working Group

The IPv6 Working Group is focused both on understanding how IPv6 will enable Internet2 to achieve its goals and on promoting and coordinating the deployment of IPv6 throughout the Internet2 infrastructure. The Internet2 IPv6 Working Group aims to make IPv6 an effective tool for the Internet2 community and, in so doing, to contribute to the IPv6 work in the broader Internet by exercising, proliferating, and improving IPv6 infrastructure and software in the Internet2 context.

Some key activities of the Working Group include:

Through education and workshops, provide campus engineers the information they need to deploy and support IPv6 within their campuses.
Clarify, both for campus decision-makers and for IPv6 leaders, why IPv6 is valuable, in strategic and in practical terms, to the Internet2 user community and why they should apply limited resources from within the campus to deployment and integration of IPv6.