Subject: [v6ops] Enterprises and IPv6

From: nalini elkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:45:02 -0700

v6ops,

"Brick and mortar" enterprises have lagged in their use and knowledge of
IPv6.   Lee Howard, Mike Ackermann and
I have been working on how we might change that.  We are making some
progress.

First, a big shout-out to Fred Baker for all his help and support in this
effort.   We have had conference calls every 2
weeks for about a year now & Fred has been on many of them.   ARIN and NIST
have also been extremely supportive
and have participated regularly.

What we are doing is starting with a free 2-hour class and lab.  We have 99
people signed up.

This is the breakdown:

Insurance: Unique companies: 18 / Total attendees: 29
Outsourcers: Unique companies: 5 / Total attendees: 16
Financials: Unique companies: 4 / Total attendees: 10
Independent Software Vendors: Unique companies: 12 / Total attendees: 14

The rest are a mix of government, manufacturing, education and others.

Nearly all are large, "brick and mortar" enterprises or sell / work with
them.

I think this is pretty good since often we have gotten less than 20 people
(sometimes less than 10) from enterprises
wanting to learn even when you set up free training.  I could be wrong but
I attribute it to the addition of the lab.

NIST has some statistics about enterprise usage which you can see here.

https://fedv6-deployment.antd.nist.gov/cgi-bin/generate-com

Other people have statistics, any way you cut it, enterprise deployment has
not been good.

Our goal is to offer more training in 2019 and then get them to have as
their first goal setting up their web server to
be IPv6 enabled.

We are working with a major university to set up a lab and to support
people who have questions.

We would like to get the v6ops community involved with enterprises.  I
think it could be beneficial for both parties.

Getting people starting to get trained up does NOT mean they will
inevitably take the next step to IPv6 enabling their network.
Also, there are likely to be problems.  I have no idea what they will be,
but I am sure there will be problems.

So the ask for v6ops is:

1.  We would like to have 3-5 people working with us from the ground up to
listen in on the classes and the kind of concerns
     that enterprises have.

2.  I suspect it will take a minimum of 2 years before we "move the needle"
on IPv6 deployment.

3.  If you are interested, please contact me unicast.  (You do not have to
make a 2-year commitment!  But, please, at least 6
    months.)

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Here is the outline of the first class.  We are starting at the VERY
beginning and assuming NO knowledge.  We are also tailoring
the class and approach to the needs of large enterprises.

1. Initial training: 1 hour

• Public and private addresses
• IPv6 Prefixes
• IPv6 Address Structure
• IPv6 Interface ID
• IPv6 Addressing and Address Allocation Methods (stateless, statefull)
• Address types, unicast, multicast, anycast
• Address categories: global, site local, link local
• Unique Local Unicast addresses
• Zero compression
• Special addresses (loopback, unspecified, IPv4 mapped IPv6)
• Broadcast address elimination

2. Guided lab: 1 hour

• Connection from client and server
• Ping / traceroute
• Reading a trace
• Simple FTP / web access

A tentative list of the topics we will offer in 2019 is:

   - IPv6 Header
   - IPv6 Extension Headers
   - Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP)
   - Stateless Auto Discovery (SLAAC)
   - IPv6 Security
   - Routing: BGP, OSPFv3, EIGRP, MPLS
   - Dual-stack and Transition mechanisms
   - Hands-on dual stack lab for a web site/3-tier app
   - Cloud
   - Extension Headers applications (M-)-PDM, SRv6

-- 
Thanks,
Nalini Elkins
President
Enterprise Data Center Operators
www.e-dco.com