These are the minutes of the IPv6 Business Information Exchange meeting held on April 20, 2010.

This was a discussion with Fred Wettling, a Bechtel Fellow and co-author of Global IPv6 Strategies, and Dr. Pete Welcher of Chesapeake NetCraftsmen. Bechtel has been implementing IPv6 for a while and Fred is integral to this effort. Dr. Pete Welcher will start off by discussing:

• How should an organization, especially a medium to large enterprise, university, or government agency, go about planning its use of IPv6 addresses?
• What considerations go into obtaining one or more IPv6 prefixes for your organization?

Then, Fred will continue with:

• Brief history / status of Bechtel IPv6 migration
• Process [and pain] of developing an addressing plan
• Geographical considerations
• Sparse allocation methods - what & why
• Functional mapping (as opposed to mapping to IPv4 address structures)
• VLANs, subnets, and other suballocations within a site
• DNS reality check

To download Dr. Pete's presentation, please click here.

To download Fred Wettling's presentation, please click here.