Winter 2008 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshop

Forcing the Issue: A Campus's (Ongoing) Experience in IPv6 Deployment

January 21, 2008, 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
UTC/GMT -10 hours
Location: Keoni

   Michael Sinatra, University of California, Berkeley  [pdf]

Session Abstract

With the recent resolutions by ICANN, ARIN, and other RIRs regarding the need to migrate to IPv6, UC Berkeley decided to proceed more aggressively in rolling out IPv6 on campus. For the past few years, IPv6 at UCB had been an experimental project on a very small number of networks. The new project aims to slowly and methodically roll out IPv6 basically everywhere on campus. Part of the purpose of the project is not merely to have IPv6 functionality around campus, but to work through the process and see what breaks and what can and cannot support IPv6. This is where the notion of "forcing the issue" comes in. In the presentation I give an update on the early stages of this project and what we have learned so far. I'll discuss upcoming deployment tasks (and challenges) and give an overall impression of the process, which I hope will be "cautiously upbeat, as long as expectations are properly managed."

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