wiki for IETF71 IPv6 experience Re: IPv6 @ IETF-71, especially Jabber

[Leslie Daigle <leslie at thinkingcat.com>]

As mentioned last week -- the wiki is now accessible:

http://wiki.tools.isoc.org/IETF71_IPv4_Outage

Thanks,
Leslie.

Leslie Daigle wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To the basic question of the IPv4 outage -- preparations are
> indeed underway, to implement it as Russ described on 12/22/2007[1].
> 
> Early next week, there will be a wiki page accessible specifically
> for our event, providing more detail and more pointers.  In the
> meantime, if you have specific comments, you can send comments to
> the team Russ set up[2].
> 
> In the meantime, NANOG and APRICOT have had similar events.  You
> can see some of the data captured here:
> 
> http://www.civil-tongue.net/grandx/
> 
> and some writeups:
> 
> http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/25276
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/82283_ipv6_hour_ipv4_switched_off/
> 
> 
> Leslie.
> 
> 
> [1]
> [On December 22, 2007, Russ Housley wrote:]
>> Following the mail list discussion, we have considered several different
>> configurations for achieving the desired network experiment environment.
>> It is important that everyone have adequate opportunity for advance
>> configuration, and it is important that severe impact on other network
>> resources at the meeting venue be avoided.  With these goals in mind, we
>> intend to add an additional IPv6-only subnet, with a different SSID on
>> the wireless network.  The SSID will include some clever name that
>> includes the string "v6ONLY".  This SSID will be available on all the
>> wireless access points throughout the venue for the entire week.
>> Everyone is encouraged to try using this network well before the plenary
>> session.  Neighbors and friends are encouraged to help each other debug
>> problems, and the kind folks at the help desk in the Terminal Room will
>> also be happy to assist with any configuration challenges, IPv6-related
>> or otherwise.
> 
> 
> 
> [2] ietf71-ipv4-outage-team at elists.isoc.org
> 
> 
> 
> Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> What's going on with the preparations to turn off IPv4 at IETF-71?  
>> It's been really quiet surrounding that topic since the initial  
>> discussion.
>>
>> Because I've had an IPv6 mail server for years and a WWW proxy that  
>> allows IPv6-only hosts to get access to the IPv4 web is fairly 
>> trivial  to set up (tip for XP users: XP can't do DNS lookups over 
>> IPv6, use  Firefox and configure it with the IPv6 address of the 
>> proxy), my  preperation for this has been mostly getting Jabber to 
>> work over IPv6.
>>
>> A while ago I managed to find a public Jabber server that is 
>> reachable  over IPv6 (amessage.de with some other domains pointing to 
>> the same  server). Unfortunately, the client I generally use, Apple's 
>> iChat,  does support Jabber over IPv6 when there is IPv4 connectivity, 
>> but  when the system has no IPv4 address it says that "you're not 
>> connected  to the internet" and doesn't try to connect over IPv6. 
>> Recently I  thought this was fixed but it turned out that the 
>> Parallels Desktop  virtualization enviroment sets up a bunch of 
>> virtual interfaces with  private addresses, which is enough for iChat 
>> to work over IPv6.
>>
>> Anyway, I started looking for Jabber clients that support IPv6. Most  
>> don't, but there are so many Jabber clients that there is actually a  
>> choice of ones that do. Unfortunately, none of them could connect to  
>> the jabber.ietf.org rooms. I first thought this was because of the  
>> clients, so I didn't keep a list of clients that support IPv6. But it  
>> turned out that this is a problem with my iljitsch at amessage.nl  
>> account on the amessage.de server, which doesn't seem IPv6-related.
>>
>> So... does anyone know a place to obtain a Jabber account that's  
>> usable over IPv6? I assumed psg.com would be a good candidate, but  
>> even though psg.com has a AAAA record, jabber.psg.com doesn't.
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