2024 Annual Meeting

This year our annual meeting was held at Cisco Meraki in London, on 19th November 2024.

Agenda & Timing

09:30 – 10:00 Tea and Coffee

10:00 – 12:00 Morning session 1

    • Opening – 10th Anniversary of the UK IPv6 Council – Veronika McKillop [slides] [video]
    • IPv6-only with IPv4aaS Using MAP-T – Richard Patterson (Sky) [slides] [video]
    • Vodafone  IPv6 deployment for Consumer Broadband – Kester Paine (Vodafone) [slides][video]
    • Hosting the UK IPv6 Council: An IPv6 Operations Tale – Jeffry Handal (Cisco Meraki) [slides] [video]
    • IPv4 Market Update – Paulius Judickas (IPXO) [slides]

    12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

    13:00 – 15:00 Afternoon session 1

      • IPv6 News from the IETF – Eric Vyncke (IETF) [slides] [video]
      • IPv6 in Windows Then and Now – Tommy Jensen (Microsoft) [slides] [video]
      • IPv6-mostly at Imperial College London – David Stockdale (Imperial College London) [slides] [video]
      • How to implement IPv6 in very large organizations – Wilhelm Boeddinghaus (Route 128) [slides] [video]

      15:00 – 15:30 Tea & Coffee

      15:30 – 17:30 Afternoon session 2

        • On the way to IPv6-only household – Pavel Odintsov (FastNetMon) [slides] [video]
        • IPv6 Deployment for Small/Medium Businesses – Tim Bray [slides] [video]
        • IPv6 Security Best Practices and the Future of Cyber Defence – David Kennedy (Arkenox) [slides] [video]
        • UK IPv6 Council 10th Anniversary panel discussion [slides] [video]
        • Closing

      If you have any questions about the event please email contact at ipv6.org.uk.

      Our thanks go to Cisco Meraki for hosting us this year.

       

      Autumn 2024 Roundtable

      Date: Thursday 12 September

      Time: 1.00pm arrivals for 1.30pm start, ending at around 5.00pm

      Venue: Jisc, 6th Floor Broadhurst House, 56 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6EU

      We are holding this roundtable in Manchester to make it easier for people who might normally find it harder to get to a London meeting to join us.

      Registration is open (max 20 places) at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-ipv6-council-autumn-roundtable-manchester-tickets-990864561577?aff=oddtdtcreator.

      Roundtable Agenda

      This event is in-person ONLY and no remote attendance option will be available.

      13:00 – 13:30 Arrivals, tea & coffee

      13:30 – 15:00 Afternoon session 1

      • Introductions
      • Deployment reports from attendees
      • A brief update on IETF topics at IETF 120 in July
      • IPv6 home networking – How ISPs can ensure users maximise the potential benefits of IPv6 (current challenges seen with a typical ISP IPv6 deployment on home routers)

      15:00 – 15:30 Tea & Coffee

      15:30 – 17:00 Afternoon session 2

      • Open discussion – other topics attendees wish to raise (e.g. IPv6 Multihoming, Developing software with IPv6)
      • Future priorities for the IPv6 Council

      NetMcr @ 7pm

      Note also that there is a NetMcr meeting at 7pm in the evening, at the Fierce Bar, 57 Thomas Street, Manchester M4 1NA, less than a mile from the Jisc offices.

      People attending the roundtable are welcome to join NetMcr. See the NetMcr web site for more details.

      Map of route from the Jisc offices to the NetMcr venue:  https://maps.app.goo.gl/tJCnyNvCiis1Vo8K8.

      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

      IPv6 Council Annual Meeting 2022

      The UK IPv6 Council held its 2022 annual meeting at Meta/Facebook’s offices in London on Monday 28 November.

      During the meeting, we covered a wide range of IPv6-related topics.

      Agenda

      10:00 Arrivals (refreshments provided)

      Morning session

      10:30 – 10:50 Welcome & UK IPv6 Update – Veronika McKillop (UK IPv6 Council) [slides] [video]

      10:50 – 11:00 UK Universities & IPv6 – Tim Chown (Jisc) [slides] [video]

      11:00 – 11: 30 IPv6 Task Force France – Jean-Charles Bisecco (IPv6 Task Force France) [slides] [video]

      11:30 – 12:00 Jim Bound IPv6 Awards (UK IPv6 Council) [slides] [video]

       

      12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (provided)

       

      Afternoon session 1

      13:00 – 13:15 10 Years of IPv6 from RIPE NCC perspective – Ondrej Caletka (RIPE NCC) [slides] [video]

      13:15 – 13:45 ISP updates – Brandon Spendlove (YouFibre), Chris Hills (Brsk) [slides] [video]

      13:45 – 14:30 CGN panel – Richard Patterson (Sky), Dave Richards/Tom Hill (BT), Charlie Huggan (Toob), Andy Gatward (Community Fibre) [slides] [video]

       

      14:30 – 15:00 Break (refreshments provided)

       

      Afternoon session 2

      15:00 – 15:30 AWS & IPv6 – Alexandra Huides (AWS) [slides] [video]

      15:30 – 16:00 Dual Stack is Rubbish, IPv6 only hosting part 2 – Pete Stevens (Mythic Beasts) [slides] [video]

      16:00 – 16:30 GridPP/WLCG & LHC IPv6 – David Kelsey (STFC-RAL) [slides] [video]

      16:30 – 17:15 10 years since World IPv6 Launch panel – Ondrej Caletka (RIPE NCC), Ian Dickinson (Vitrifi), Pete Stevens (Mythic Beasts), Jan Zorz (6Connect) [slides] [video]

       

      17:15 Wrap up and close

      For the after-meeting social, we will relocate to The Wheatsheaf next to the Meta/Facebook office.

      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).

      IPv6 Council Annual Meeting 2021

      The UK IPv6 Council held its 2021 Annual meeting online via Zoom on Tuesday 7th December 2021 from 1pm GMT / UTC onwards.

      There are slides and recordings available for most of the talks.

      Agenda

      1.00pm – Welcome – Veronika McKillop, UK IPv6 Council Chair

      1.15pm – UK ISP Updates

      1.40pm – Session 1

      3.00pm – Tea break

      3.15pm – Session 2

      4.45pm – Discussion

      5.15pm – Wrap up, AOB, discussion of future Council activities

      5.30pm – Close

      The recordings are also available as a YouTube playlist.

      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.

       

      IPv6 Council Annual Meeting 2020

      The Council held its 2020 Annual Meeting on Thursday 17th December, as an online-only meeting via Zoom.

      Presentation materials and videos of the talks are now available below.

      Agenda (all times are GMT):

      1:00PM – open Zoom meeting for attendees to join early

      Block 1

      1:30PM – Official start and welcome (UK IPv6 Council) [PDF] [video] and Global Status Update [PDF]  [video]

      1:45PM – Experience with IPv6-only at Athlone Institute of Technology (Colin Donohue & Ian Hallissy, AIT) [PDF]  [video]

      2:15PM – DDoS challenges in IPv6 environment (Pavel Odintsov, FastNetMon) [PDF] [video]

      2:55PM – Tea & coffee break

      Block 2

      3:10PM – Community Fibre IPv6 Update (Sam Defriez, Community Fibre) – 15 minutes including Q&A [PDF][video]

      3:25PM – Any other ISP updates

      3:30PM – CDN Provider’s view of IPv6 in 2020 (Erik Nygren, Akamai) [video]

      4:05PM – Deeper dive into the recent Windows ICMPv6 vulnerability (Fernando Gont, SI6 Networks) [PDF] [video]

      4:35PM – Any other business, topics, quick updates from the attendees and closing

      If you have any queries about the event, please email contact@ipv6.org.uk.

      8th IPv6 Council Roundtable

      The Council held a roundtable meeting on Tuesday 27th October, from 3pm-5pm, online-only meeting via Zoom.

      Agenda:

      15:00 – Opening & welcome

      15:10 – ISP updates (Belgium & UK)

      15:30 – Red Hat Openshift (Kubernetes) IPv6 support – presented by Pieter Lewyllie (Belgian IPv6 Council & RedHat)

      15:50 – Discussion

      16:00 – Break

      16:10 – How to deploy IPv6 like a pro (and avoid major failures) – discussion lead by Ed Horley & Tom Coffeen (Hexabuild)

      17:00 – Closing

       

      The event was held jointly with the Belgian IPv6 Council.

      IPv6 VPN survey

      The UK IPv6 Council will be discussing IPv6 support and operational issues with VPN services at its upcoming Roundtable meeting on 28th April.

      We’d very much appreciate you taking a few moments to complete a brief survey to help inform the discussion.

      The survey is at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/P5W75BS

      For meeting details and free registration, see https://www.ipv6.org.uk/2020/04/14/spring-2020-roundtable-meeting/.