DNS can be used for evil or for good. Find out what the risks and benefits are to your network and how to keep your users safer.

While network engineers usually deal with layer 3, changes in IPv6, such as DUID vs Mac, Happy Eyeballs, source/destination address selection, etc. will cause problems for our users and support staff.

The number of IPv6-connected users has doubled since World IPv6 Launch began on June 6, 2012, when thousands of Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and Web companies around the world came together to permanently enable the next generation of Internet Protocol (IPv6) for their products and services. This marks the third straight year IPv6 use on the global Internet has doubled. If current trends continue, more than half of Internet users around the world will be IPv6-connected in less than 6 years.

The process of IPv6-enabling a data centre has usually been done in small incremental steps, with the aim to eventually have all the applications running in dual-stack mode. However, dual-stack operation has inherent complexity, and with IPv4 address depletion looming, is this really the best strategy?

This talk discusses an alternative to incremental dual-stack: Making the leap straight to IPv6-only operation. Depending on the applications that are used, this approach may potentially help reduce the pressure for increasingly scarce IPv4 resources, and at the same time significantly reduce the complexity of the overall platform.

Recognising that the internet is still a predominantly IPv4-only place, it will also go into how Stateless IP/ICMP Translation works and how it can be used to ensure that IPv4-only end-users will remain able to access the IPv6-only applications and services with minimal service degradation.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the latest revision of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion. IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4, which still carries the vast majority of Internet traffic as of 2013. Presentations shows where we are with IPv6 within the industry.

Technical presentation wanted! We welcome all who want to talk about network technologies, operators’ solution and the best examples of network implementations. If you feel that sharing your knowledge and experience can make a significant contribution to the network community, don’t hesitate to send your topic! Together we want to create the most professional network conference in Poland.

Deadline for submission of tutorial proposal is 22nd July, 2013. Please send the proposals (including name and surname of the speaker together with bio, topic of the lecture and abstract) to jakub.koziol{@}proidea.org.pl and andrzej.targosz{@}proidea.org.pl.