A day-long event intended to bootstrap the teaching of IPv6 in university courses in the UK. This event was organised for university lecturers.

The UK IPv6 Council held its annual meeting at BT Tower, London, on 18th November 2025.

And the BT Tower infobanner changed to tell London that IPv6 is the evolution of the Internet.

Thanks to Fran Bragg for the cutest doodle.

Agenda & Timing

09:30 – Arrivals, tea & coffee

10:00 – Welcome & Opening – Veronika McKillop, UK IPv6 Council [slides]

10:15 – Past, present, and future of IPv6 at BT – Tom Hill, BT [slides]

10:45 – IPv6 Adoption Across .uk – David Kennedy, Arkenox [slides]

11:15 – How I learned to stop worrying and to love IPv6: Measuring the Internet’s Readiness for DNS over IPv6 – Tobias Fiebig, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, FG INET [slides]

11:45 – High-speed IPv6-only SciTag marking of CERN experiment traffic – Tim Chown, Jisc [slides]

12:00 – Lunch

13:30 – Bouygues Telecom :: IPv6 deployment in mobile network – Viktor Frolov, Bouygues [slides]

14:00 – Large-Scale IPv6 Internet Reconnaissance – Scott Hogg, Hogg Networking [slides]

14:30 – IETF IPv6 Operations Updates, Changes, and Future Priorities – Nick Buraglio, ESnet/US DoE/IETF IPv6 WG [slides]

15:00 – Tea & coffee break

15:30 – IPv6 MATRIX PROJECT – Tracking IPv6 accessible content Worldwide – Tim Chown, Jisc ,on behalf of ISOC UK [slides]

15:45 – New support of DHCPv6 PD in Android – Rich Patterson [slides]

16:00 – Enterprise view of Android & DHCPv6 PD – Veronika McKillop [slides]

16:20 – European IPv6 Initiative – Carlos Ralli Ucendo, IPv6 Council Spain [slides]

17:00 – Social afterparty at the T34 floor (with evening/night view of London)

 

To register for free, please go to our Eventbrite page.

When: 8 April 2025

Where: Imperial College London, Huxley building, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ

Agenda

13:00 – 13:30 Arrivals, tea & coffee

13:30 – 15:00 Afternoon session 1

• Removing IPv4 / IPv6-mostly / IPv6-only
• IPv6-mostly WiFi at Imperial (case study)
• What can UK IPv6 Council do to help advance IPv6 adoption?

15:00 – 15:30 Tea & Coffee

15:30 – 17:00 Afternoon session 2

• Operational experience with IPv6 – Management/monitoring, firewalling, accounting
• Summer Workshop and Annual meeting 2025 topics

To reserve your seat, please register here.

Hosted by Sky, the roundtable is a small group event focused on discussing various IPv6 topics.

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Agenda

13:00 – 13:30 Arrivals, tea & coffee

13:30 – 15:00 Afternoon session 1

• Transition mechanisms beyond dual-stack (MAP-T/E, 464XLAT, IPv6-mostly)
• IPv6 in consumer electronics

15:00 – 15:30 Tea & Coffee

15:30 – 17:00 Afternoon session 2

• How to overcome the lack of IPv6 knowledge
• Annual meeting 2024 topics

The UK IPv6 Council held its 2023 annual meeting at Meta/Facebook’s offices in London on Tuesday 21 November.

We are very grateful to Meta for again supporting our annual event.

If there’s something that the global IPv6 community agrees on, it is that enterprises are lagging behind ISPs in terms of IPv6 adoption.

There are many misconceptions and a lack of understanding of IPv6 among these organisations, therefore the UK IPv6 Council decided to offer help and some practical guidance. The format was a day-long “Enterprise and IPv6” workshop in London, on 24th April 2023.

Presentations are available below.

Venue:

Morgan Stanley Conference Centre, London

Agenda:

Morning block (10:00 – 12:00)

• • Welcome & Setting the scene – Veronika McKillop (UK IPv6 Council) [slides] [video]
  • “IPv6 thinking” – Tom Hill (BT) [slides] [video]
  • IPv6 Address Planning – Veronika McKillop (UK IPv6 Council) [slides] [video]
  • Applications & IPv6 – Tim Coote (Coote.org) [slides] [video]

Lunch 12:00 – 13:00

Afternoon block 1 (13:00 – 15:00)

• • IPv6 Security & Mythbusting – Fernando Gont (SI6 Networks) [slides] [video]
  • The Cloud, IPv6, and the Enterprise – Radek Zajic [slides] [video]
  • Kubernetes & IPv6 – Nico Schottelius (Ungleich) [slides] [video]
  • Almost IPv6-only Networks – Ondrej Caletka (RIPE NCC) [slides] [video]

Afternoon break 15:00 – 15:30

Afternoon block 2 (15:30 – 17:30)

• • IPv6 @ Morgan Stanley (case study) – Andre Browning & Martin Baro (slides not available online)
  • IPv6 at Imperial College London (case study) – David Stockdale [slides] [video]
  • IPv6 and IoT – Graeme Bragg (University of Southampton) [slides] [video]

Close (17:30)

The Council will be holding its first in-person event for two years as we host our Spring 2022 roundtable meeting on Thursday 12 May from 2pm to 5.30pm at the Jisc offices in London.

The event details, venue location and (free) registration can be found at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-ipv6-council-spring-2022-roundtable-physical-meeting-tickets-315398815347

We will have an opportunity to share information about IPv6 projects and the challenges that come along.

The preliminary list of topics that will also be discussed:

• • Transition technologies for ISPs (latest RFC drafts)
  • SRv6 is gaining supporters as well as opponents, so what’s to it?
  • Why are some organisations removing IPv6 from their internal network (after they have already deployed it)? What recommendations we could provide to stop this?

Note that places are limited for our roundtable events. We will ask that everyone who registers takes a lateral-flow test on the day of the meeting and wears a face mask during the meeting.

The address of the Jisc offices is Jisc, 15 Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1BW.

We expect to add Zoom access for remote participation, details to follow.

After the meeting, we will continue the informal discussion in a local pub (to be specified at the meeting) and at 7 PM we will join NetLdn meeting at The Wheatsheaf (25 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JB).

The UK IPv6 Council held its Spring roundtable meeting on the afternoon of Wednesday 16th June.

The theme was home and consumer IoT and networking.

The agenda:

• Opening/Overview of IPv6 traffic levels as of June 2021 – Veronika McKillop (UK IPv6 Council) [slides]
• Update on RIPE554-bis (RIPE IPv6 ICT Tender guidance) – Tim Chown (Jisc) [RIPE554-bis PDF snapshot as of June2021] – to contribute feedback please join the RIPE IPv6 WG list.
• Home LAN IPv6 setup (discussion) – led by Loba Olopade (Virgin Media) [PDF]
• World of IoT & IPv6 [slides]
• Matter (formerly CHIP/Connected Home over IP) – IPv6 development in consumer IoT space – Vinay Rao (SmartThings/Samsung) [slides]

The event was hosted online, via Zoom.