[Discuss] Speakers for IPv6?

[Eric Chadbourne]

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On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Chris O'Connell <omegahalo at gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> I don't know much about IPv6, but think this is a really important topic
> for IT people.  Thanks for trying to get this organized.
>
> Chrsi
>
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:26 AM, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to schedule several BLU meetings about IPv6 for next year,
>> and I'm looking
>> for speakers who can give the kinds of presentations I think would be
>> useful.
>>
>> We had a talk last November, but it fell short of what I had hoped
>> for. I was looking
>> for presentations where the target audience is people who have already
>> decided
>> they want to migrate to IPv6, and are asking how to proceed.
>>
>> The talk we actually got was interesting and informative, but it didn't
>> address
>> the correct audience. The talk we got focused on persuading a
>> reluctant audience
>> that they really need to start planning to migrate to IPv6, and it
>> didn't really offer
>> any useful details on how to proceed.
>>
>> For starters, I've come up with three basic scenarios I'd like to explore:
>>
>> 1. A home user with 1-2 desktops, a few laptops/iPhones/Android devices,
>> maybe a NAS or Tivo, and a Linksys wireless router that can support DD-WRT;
>>
>> 2. A small office with 1-2 Linux servers and maybe a dozen desktops and
>> laptops
>> possibly supporting a mix of Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
>>
>> 3. A larger enterprise with several locations in different cities;
>> dozens of servers
>> including Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc; desktop, laptops,
>> smartphones,
>> etc including a mix of Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android, etc.
>>
>> To keep things simple, I think it makes sense to focus on migrating from a
>> pure IPv4 network to a dual-stack network for these scenarios. Even with
>> this
>> focus, I imagine it would still take several meetings to cover the basics.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend speakers who can give these kinds of HOWTO talks?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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