Public participation site

If the number of uniquely numbered network interfaces connected to the Internet continues to grow at the rate we've been seeing for the last few years the free pool of IPv4 addresses will be exhausted and a new address space will be required. That address space is IPv6 and the RIRs have been allocating it to ISPs since 1999.

Although the 6bone IPv6 testbed network was officially closed on 6 June 2006, deployment of IPv6 on production networks is not yet widespread.

There will be a panel discussion on IPv6 deployment issues at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon this Sunday afternoon. The panel consists of Gert Döring from SpaceNet AG, who will discuss the ISP's view of IPv6 deployment, João Damas from Internet Systems Consortium who will discuss IPv6 deployment in the DNS and Alex Le Heux from the RIPE NCC who will give the RIR perspective.

If you can’t attend in person the session can be watched via a webcast and remote participation will be possible through this public participation site, which allows registered users to ask questions and comment in chatrooms and forums. Please feel free to submit questions to the panel in advance, by adding a comment on this blog entry or the session page, or via the chatroom during the session, or use the blog facility to write about it afterwards.

Please note that the presentations attached to this entry have been updated since first published.