IPv6 has seen relatively little adoption among service providers
worldwide in recent years but that may be beginning to change. As
fear of IPv4 address exhaustion looms and IPv6 is perceived to be
maturing, roll-outs are increasing. This is bringing a series of
conflicts between service providers and protocol architects. Service
providers want to deploy IPv6 in a manner compatible with current IPv4
deployment, but this notably conflicts with desire to use IPv6 to
solve the massive deaggregation and routing-table bloat seen in the
IPv4 world. Clearly there are problems that need to be worked out.
Nevertheless, a large group of IPv6 proponents has developed. These
are people who think that IPv6 is more than ready for production
deployment, even to end-users. They think it solves some problems for
real networks (mostly related to IP number exhaustion, but there are
others), and that the time for resistance, comment and criticism has
come and gone.
At the same time, a large and quiet body of people are (mostly)
silently waiting for IPv6's demise so that we can start talking about
a simpler protocol migration. These people tend to think that IPv6 is
massively over-designed, fails to solve the location+identifier
problem in routing scalably, and offers no backwards
compatibility. They also tend to think that there is plenty of time to
design and implement a better solution. IPv6 proponents, even those
who think that the protocol needs work, obviously strongly disagree.
What everyone agrees on is that IPv6 has not seen massive adoption and
that there is a looming set of problems for IPv4 (the combination of
address shortage and routing table bloat).
This panel will finally unite the IPv6 naysayers and the IPv6
proponents in a single, constructive discussion. The idea is to
combine people who think that IPv6 is workable but needs some fixing
with those who think that it is fatally flawed in a useful, public
debate. The panel also unites people whose experience is on the
protocol design side, people who run large networks, and those who do
research, analysis and tools for operators.
About the Presenters
Moderator: Todd Underwood, Renesys
Todd Underwood is in charge of operations and peering for
Renesys. Before that he was CTO of Oso Grande, a New Mexico ISP. He
has a background in systems engineering and security and has worked on
a variety of systems architecture and scalability problems. Todd has
presented work related to Internet routing dynamics and relationships
at NANOG and various peering forums (LINX, S&D, NOTA).
Panelists:
Daniel Golding, Tier 1 Research
Daniel Golding is Vice President and Senior Analyst at Tier 1
Research, covering the Hosting and Internet Infrastructure
industries. Most recently, Daniel spent three years as a senior
industry analyst at the Burton Group, covering enterprise
internetworking. Daniel has served as Global Peering Manager at
America Online, where he lead AOL's efforts to become a core Internet
network. Daniel has also held senior engineering and architecture
positions at a variety of major Internet Service Providers. Daniel has
briefed the FCC on Internet policy issues and is a frequent speaker at
industry events, including the North American Network Operator's Group
(NANOG) and the Global Peering Forum. Daniel holds a BS from Auburn
University and an MS from George Mason University, both in
engineering.
Dave Meyer, Cisco, University of Oregon
David Meyer is currently Director of Internet Architecture and
Engineering at Cisco Systems. Prior to that he served as Senior
Scientist and Director of IP Technology Development at Sprint. He is
also Director of the Advanced Network Technology Center at the
University of Oregon. Prior to working at Sprint, he worked at Cisco,
where he was involved in software development, working both on
multicast and BGP. He is active in the IETF, where he chairs the
MBONED, GROW, and DNSOP working groups, as well as being a member of
several IETF directorates and Internet Research Task Force research
groups. He is also active in the operator community and in other
standards organizations as the ITU-T, where he co-chairs FGNGN WG 7.
Jason Schiller, Verizon Business
Jason Schiller is a Senior Internet Network Engineer in the IP Network
Engineering Department at UUNET / Verizon. He has been with the
company for over seven years. His current role includes architecting,
designing, evaluating, and qualifying networks for deployment in the
UUNET network. Jason also completes field trials and acts as highest
level of escalation for issues in the Americas continental networks
and for multicast issues globally. He is also responsible for defining
and maintaining global standards for each of the continental UUNET
networks. Previous projects include designing the UUCast multicast
network and the Latin American network. Current interests include
Internet routing, multicast, and IPv6.
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