Spring 2024 Roundtable

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

IPv6 Council Annual Meeting 2023

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.

Agenda & Timing

09:30 – 10:00 Tea and Coffee

10:00 – 12:00 Morning session 1

    • Opening – UK IPv6 Council [YouTube]  [slides]
    • IPconomics: Getting Comfortable with the Business Side of IPv6 – Jeffry Handal (Cisco Meraki) [YouTube] [slides]
    • ISP talks – Charlie Huggan (Toob) [YouTube] [slides], DaveTomlinson (Plusnet) [YouTube] [slides]
    • IETF IPv6 hot topics – Tim Chown (Jisc) [YouTube] [slides]
    • IETF SNAC WG – Tom Hill (BT) [YouTube] [slides]
    • Jim Bound Awards [slides]

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 15:00 Afternoon session 1

    • IPv6 in the European Parliament – Benedikt Riedel (VEI Global) [YouTube] [slides]
    • Connecting Enterprise IPv6 Islands – Andy Gatward [YouTube] [slides]
    • Removing IPv4 Infrastructure Addressing from Edge Network – Nick Chettle (Meta) [YouTube] [slides]
    • Benefits of IPv6 for Software Development – Chris Cummings (ESnet/US Department of Energy) [YouTube] [slides]

15:00 – 15:30 Tea & Coffee

15:30 – 17:15 Afternoon session 2

    • Moving towards IPv6-only in the German Tier-1 Data Centre of the CERN Large Hadron Collider – Bruno Hoeft (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) [YouTube] [slides]
    • Mission Impossible: Turning IPv4 Off in an Enterprise Network – Jen Linkova (Google) [YouTube] [slides]
    • Lightning talks:
    • IoT Matter & IPv6 – Graeme Bragg (University of Southampton) [YouTube] [slides]
    • IPv6: No Customer Demand (a customer case study) – Pete Stevens (Mythic Beasts) [YouTube] [slides]
    • Open Q&A and close

Enterprise & IPv6 Workshop

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)

Spring 2022 roundtable meeting

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).

Spring 2021 Roundtable Meeting

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.