1. Veronika McKillop 9/9/2014 @ UKNOF29
UK IPv6 Council
Veronika McKillop
UKNOF29

2. Yet another IPv6 institution?
Memories of 6UK are fresh
UK IPv6 Council ≠ 6UK
Established after a request from IPv6 Forum
V6 World Congress in Paris (March 2014)

3. What is UK IPv6 Council? Non-profit organisation Technology User Group
Inspired by Belgium IPv6 Council
The aim is to:
Bring together a community and enable dialog
Develop sense of togetherness and share knowledge

4. Vision
Create an environment for technical and business people from enterprise/public sector/SP that enables sharing of information, business cases/drivers and experience with IPv6 deployments
Work with other organisations to make UK IPv6 activities visible in the UK and an international level
Change perception of the UK as
an "IPv6-negative" country

5. Source: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/
UK IPv6 Adoption
Source:

6. What would success look like?
People inspired/encouraged by engaging in UK IPv6 Council, will (re)start IPv6 projects in their own organisations
Assigned IPv6 prefixes will start to be used
IPv6 traffic in the UK will grow

7. Council Board Members ISP Enterprise Academia Industry body
BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media
Enterprise
Cisco, Glaxo Smith Kline UK, a large financial organisation
Academia
University of Southampton, JANET
Industry body
Institute of Engineering and Technology

8. Council Chairs Veronika McKillop Tim Chown Cisco
University of Southampton

9. First Initiatives Business Case for IPv6 UK IPv6 Council Meeting
25th September 3PM (GMT+1)
Public webinar
UK IPv6 Council Meeting
16th October 2014
IDEALondon

10. Get involved with UK IPv6 Council
Free and open for all!
LinkedIn Group: UK IPv6 Council
Website:

11. Thank you.