Inside Products

The IPv6 Business Information Exchange is a free service to the business community provided by Inside Products. The goal is to facilitate exchange of technical information needed to implement IPv6 in networks both large and small.  If there are facilities that are not yet provided by the IPv6 protocol, we will approach the IETF or other bodies for clarification or enhancements.  To view the current Internet-Drafts submitted to the IETF, please click HERE.

Meetings will be held quarterly.  To be notified of future meetings, please contact us.

You may suggest a new topic for discussion by emailing ipv6@insidethestack.com. When we receive topics, we will try to get industry authorities to address the questions as well as providing a forum to discuss the topics within the group.

Past Meetings

• March 31, 2015
  IETF 92 Update: IPv6 Business Information Exchange (BIE)
  
  A recap of the IETF 92 meeting.  We will be presenting our draft for enhanced performance and diagnostic metrics (IPPM Considerations for the IPv6 PDM header ) at the IPPM working group session. 
   
  This draft is co-authored by Nalini Elkins - Inside Products, Inc., Mike Ackermann - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and Rob Hamilton - Chemical Abstracts Service.
   
  Google IPv6 statistics show IPv6 traffic to Google of over 6%.   This is expected to double in 2015.

  In this webcast, we will present our proposal and bring you up to date on the latest activities at the IETF.  You may wish to view information on our IPv6 Problem Finder or IPv6 consulting.   To arrange for an IPv6 class at your site, please contact us at training@insidethestack.com.

  
• November 18, 2014: Recap of the IETF 91 meeting.  We presented our draft for enhanced performance and diagnostic metrics (IPPM Considerations for the IPv6 PDM header ) at the IPPM working group session.  This draft is co-authored by Nalini Elkins - Inside Products, Inc., Mike Ackermann - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and Rob Hamilton - Chemical Abstracts Service.
  
  We believe that networks cannot continue to grow sustainably without adequate measurement and diagnostic techniques.  Our proposal for the IPv6 PDM header would embed such measurement in the packet header. If a uniform mechanism is available for all applications and upper layer protocols (TCP, UDP, SCTP, ICMP), then stack and hardware vendors can process this header in hardware for best performance.
  
  
  

• July 16, 2013 : report on the last IETF meeting in July.  Shumon Huque of the University of Pennsylvania discussed their experience with IPv6 at U Penn.

  IPv6 has been deployed in major parts of the University of Pennsylvania's campus network since 2005. Besides network infrastructure, several key application services are IPv6 enabled, including a variety of Web (HTTP) servers, DNS, NTP, XMPP, and others. This session will include a discussion of why the university deployed IPv6, what problems were encountered, what worked well, what problems remain, and what they would do differently. 

You can download the recording HERE.  And download the  foils HERE.

• April 23, 2013 : report on the last IETF meeting in March.  
  

  We reviewed the draft RFC which we presented to the v6Ops working group.  You may see that HERE.
  

   

• January 15, 2013 : John Curran, CEO of ARIN : Ready or Not, IPv6 is Here

• July 25, 2012 : Nalini Elkins, Inside Products : Server Load Balancing - Protocol Translation (SLB-PT)

• April 25, 2012 : Tim Owen, Secure Mission Solutions:
  Wrangling the Enterprise : Using IPv6 Transition as a Catalyst to Once and For All Capture and Control Networks and Services

• January 19, 2012 : John Deltognoarmanasco of the Veterans Aaffairs (US government) and Fred Wettling of Bechtel Corporation :  Address Planning in IPv6

• October 13, 2011 : Mike Ackerman, Blue Cross of Michigan and Nalini Elkins, Inside Products : IPv6 Business Information Exchange at the IETF

• July 13, 2011 : Gary Ratterree, Level3 Communications:   IPv6 at Level 3 Communications

• April 27, 2011 : John Curran, CEO of ARIN :  Ready or Not, IPv6 is Here

• October 20, 2010 : William Schmidlapp, Verizon Business
  Guy Snyder, ICSA Labs

• July 14, 2010 : Nalini Elkins : Recap of Rocky Mountain IPv6Summit

• April 20, 2010 : Fred Wettling, Bechtel : IPv6 Addressing Planning at Bechtel

• January 26, 2010 : Pete Welcher, Chesapeake NetCraftsmen  : IPv6 Address Planning

• October 20, 2009 : John Brzozowski, Comcast :  IPv6 Strategy at Comcast

• July 15, 2009 : Derek Morr, Penn State :  Integrating IPv6 at Penn State

• April 21, 2009 : Eric Vyncke, Cisco : IPv6 Security and Cisco's IPv6 Firewall Implementation

• April 21, 2009: Jack DiGiuseppe, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association : Potential Roadmap for IPv6 Integration

• January 20, 2009 : Fred Wettling, Bechtel :  IPv6 in the Enterprise

• July 22, 2008 : General Discussion

• October 21, 2008 : General Discussion