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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.

The UK IPv6 Council held its seventh round table meeting online, from 2-4pm BST on 28th April.

The agenda was as follows:

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Annual Meeting of UK IPv6 Council was held at the Facebook offices in London on 12th December 2019.

For the after-meeting social we joined forces with NetLdn meeting at The Wheatsheaf next to the Facebook office.

Meeting Agenda

10.00am Arrivals and registrations

10.30am Welcome and opening – Veronika McKillop (UK) [slides]

10.40am IPv6 Segment Routing – Clarence Filsfils, Cisco (FR) [slides]

11.10am ISP Updates – BT/EE [slides], Sky [slides] [video recording from UKNOF45], Hyperoptic [slides], Community Fibre [slides]

11.55am Global IPv4 address space runout and UK IPv6 Council update – Veronika McKillop [slides]

12:15pm IPv6 Matrix (ISOC) [link]

12.20pm Jim Bound Awards 2019 [slides]

12.30pm LUNCH

1.30pm Ungleich IPv6-only Hosting – Nico Schottelius, Ungleich (CH) [slides]

1.55pm IPv6 in the Aviation Industry – Andy Gatward, SITA (UK) [slides]

2.20pm Microsoft IT Ongoing Journey to IPv6-only – Veronika McKillop, Microsoft (UK) [slides] [video recording from RIPE79]

2.45pm TEA & COFFEE BREAK

3.15pm Mythic Beasts Cloud IPv6 Hosting – Pete Stevens, Mythic Beasts (UK) [slides]

3.45pm Adventures in 6VPE and EVPN IPv6 – Dave Freedman, Claranet (UK) [slides]

4.15pm Azure IPv6 Update – Fabrizio Ferri, MS Azure (UK) [slides]

4.45pm Open discussion

5.00pm Close

Directions – to Facebook London and from Facebook to the Wheatsheaf

Our thanks to Facebook for providing the venue.

This workshop of the UK IPv6 Council gave information about the current level of IPv6 support in various Cloud offerings, as well as other IPv6 challenges in virtualised environments.

It was held at Imperial College London on Tuesday 3rd September 2019, from 1.00pm to 5.30pm.

The rationale: Existing information on the Internet is piecemeal, hard to put together for Cloud customers and therefore we want to enable our members and the industry with this information.

Agenda

13:00 – 13:30 – Doors open – buffet lunch will be available

13:30 – 13:35 – Welcome & Opening
13:35 – 13:45 – Why IPv6 matters for Cloud now (Veronika McKillop, Microsoft, UK) (PDF)
13:45 – 14:30 – IPv6 in Azure (Fabrizio Ferri, Microsoft Azure, UK) (PDF)
14:30 – 15:15 – Current state of IPv6 support in AWS (Scott Hogg, Hexabuild, USA) (PDF)

15:15 – 15:45 – Tea & coffee break

15:45 – 16:15 – The challenge of getting delegated IPv6 connectivity in cloud environments (Radek Zajic, CZ) (PDF)
16:15 – 16:45 – The reasons for IPv6-only hosting (Nico Schottelius, Ungleich, CH) (PDF)
16:45 – 17:15 – Overview of IPv6 support in container technologies (Pieter Lewyllie, Cisco, BE) (PDF)
17:15 – 17:30 – Closing & relocation to a nearby pub

As we usually do, we will go for a few drinks after the event where everyone is welcomed to join us and continue discussing IPv6 in a less formal setting. The pub to meet in is The Queen’s Arms, which is at 30 Queens Gate Mews, Kensington, SW7 5QL.

Location

Imperial College London
Room SALC10, Seminar and Learning Centre, Level 5, Sherfield Building
Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2AZ

The UK IPv6 Council held its 2018 Annual Meeting on Friday 7th December at BT Centre, London, close to St Paul’s tube station.

The agenda with links to slide decks is below, along with video recordings kindly made by the BT events team.

Our thanks again to BT for their excellent hosting of the event, including refreshments during the day.

Agenda and Slide decks (PDFs)

09:30 Coffee

10:00 Morning Session

Opening and looking back at 2018
Veronika McKillop, Microsoft –  [slides] [video]

IPv6 Keynote
Jen Linkova, Google – [slides] [video]

ISP Updates
Nick Heatley, EE – [slides]
Loba Olopade, Virgin – [slides]
Mathew Chigwende, Liquid Telecom – [slides]
Combined recording of ISP updates: [video]

Jim Bound Awards
Presented by Veronika McKillop – [slides] [video]

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Afternoon Session I

LinkedIn Enterprise
Tim Crofts, LinkedIn – [slides] [video]

IPv6 in the Enterprise
Steve Youell, JP Morgan – [slides] [video]

IPv6 for WLCG/CERN research
Duncan Rand, Imperial College – [slides] [video]

IPv6 at Queen Mary University London
Chris Walker, QMUL – [slides] [video]

Mail and Web Servers First?
Benedikt Stockebrand, Stepladder IT Training+Consulting GmbH – [slides] [video]

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Afternoon Session II

IPv6 for Peer-to-Peer Applications
Darrin Veit, Microsoft – [slides] [video]

Implementing NAT64 and DNS64
Terry Froy, QMUL – [slides] [video]

IPv6 Matrix and measurement discussion
Olivier Crepin-Leblond, ISOC UK – [slides] [video]

Open discussion / Q&A

17:00 Close

Discussions then continued in the nearby Paternoster …

The Council held an afternoon workshop on IPv6 transition technologies in the Huxley Building at Imperial College London on 25 September 2018. The event was attended by over 30 people, and featured a lot of good discussion during and after the meeting.

Our thanks to Imperial for providing the venue and refreshments.

Materials are available below:

Historical view of IPv6 Transition / Integration / Co-Existence – Tim Chown, Jisc – slides (PDF)

Overview of IPv6 Transition Technologies – Veronika McKillop, Microsoft – slides (PDF)

Dual-stack in enterprise networks – David Stockdale, Imperial – slides (PDF)

NAT64 in enterprise deployments – Veronika McKillop, Microsoft – slides (PDF)

464XLAT for Mobile Operators – Nick Heatley, EE – slides (PDF)

MAPping of Address and Port Overview – Richard Patterson, Sky – slides (PDF)

DS-Lite Implementation, Key Considerations – Loba Olopade, Virgin – slides (PDF)

IPv4-as-a-Service – Sander Steffan, Retevia – slides (PDF)