Background

Today I had the opportunity to share some of my IPv6 experiences with a group of people who are members of CEN. CEN is our regional research network in Connecticut, providing excellent services to schools, towns, and libraries throughout the state. We are proud members and I was so happy that I could give back to the community with this presentation.

I intended my talk to act as a framework for network admins looking to adopt IPv6 on their networks, and move to it being their primary protocol. Thus, I run from pre-deployment planning, through rolling out and testing IPv6, all the way through to adopting transition technologies like NAT64, DNS64, and 464XLAT. There are also some “gotchas” to watch out for and resources for further reading/watching. Finally, I show some numbers from our own production deployment of NAT64.

I want to acknowledge Jen Linkova (currently at Google) and Ondřej Caletka (currently at RIPE) for their excellent presentations and articles. They have been tireless in advancing and advocating for IPv6 adoption, and their work helped me with my adoption and with the content of this talk.

Also, a big shoutout to Suffolk University in Boston. I was on a college visit trip with my family and they were kind enough to let me use a space in their library to deliver this talk so I didn’t have to stay home!

If you have any questions, or if you found the talk helpful, please let me know!

Downloads

The recording of the slide deck didn’t end up including any animations or interactive highlighting done by me during the presentation; my apologies. However, it’s enough to give you the idea!

• PDF version of the slide deck
• Streaming video of presentation session
• Downloadable video of presentation session in h265 or h264 format
• Downloadable audio transcript (machine-generated, may be inaccurate)