Opening Plenary - Main Room (Mon, 14:00)
This is a draft agenda: changes are still being made.
- Welcome from the RIPE Programme Committee
The stereotype of 'the' grumpy Operator-from-Hell is probably as old as the Internet. Still, arguably, system and network engineers have a tendency of 'being right'; Which often makes them grumpy, especially when management yet-again does the wrong thing.
Most operators know at least one person that used to be young and enthusiastic, pushing [$NEW_TECH] into an organization, slowly advancing to become the utmost expert on it. They made the right call, at the right time.
Then they start to fend …
IPv6 deployment has reached a point where the hardest problems are no longer necessarily in routers and access networks. Increasingly, the question is whether the applications running on those networks have actually been tested without IPv4.
For many years, "IPv6 support" could mean that an application worked on a dual-stack host. But as IPv6-only networks and transition mechanisms such as NAT64 become increasingly common, applications need to remain functional when IPv4 is unavailable. This is…