IETF Chair wrote: > Dear Colleagues: > > How dark is the IPv6 Internet? Let's find out. > > During the IESG/IAOC Plenary at IETF 71, we are going to turn off IPv4 > support on the IETF network for 30 to 60 minutes. We will encourage the > audience to use the Internet and determine which services that they have > come to take for granted remain available. Note that unless hosts flush their dhcp leases and ipv4 default routes this actually will look more like an ipv4 transit outage on a dual-stack supporting network then it will an ipv6 only network... While I think it's a perfectly reasonable exercise I think it's better to aim to simulate the latter rather than the former (which is operational rather than architectural issues). > If you are from a service provider, we encourage you to make your service > a bright spot on the IPv6 Internet. > > To facilitate this experiment, a URL with instructions on how to get IPv6 > running on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and so on. Some information will > also be available for a 4-to-6 tunnel. > > We will ask everyone to list things that work and things that do not. The > results will be part of the proceedings for the plenary session. > > We will make more information about the structuring of this activity over > the next few weeks. Please do whatever you can to make ready ... > > Russ Housley > IETF Chair > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf