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Interview on IETF atmosphere (part3: Erik Kline)

Profile for Erik Kline How many tiems have you participated in the IETF? My first meeting was IETF 70, in December 2007 in Vancouver, which I attended in person. The most recent was IETF 120, also in Vancouver, also in person. Looking at t…

Interview on IETF atmosphere (part2: XiPeng Xiao)

I've asked questions on the IETF atmosphere from IETF v6ops chair XiPeng Xiao from Huawei. Q1: How many IETF meetings have you attended, and can you share your experiences of both virtual and onsite participation? XiPeng Xiao: I've attende…

Interview on IETF atmosphere (part1: Suresh Krishnan)

Interview with Suresh Krishnan on the IETF Experience profile of Suresh Suresh Krishnan works as a Distinguished Engineer (Strategy, Incubation and Applications) at Cisco. He has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Unive…

GSoC chromium: IP address synthesis for an IPv6 only network to connect to an IPv4 address literal.

TLDR; When a client is in an IPv6 only environment it utilises the NAT64 and DNS64 in the network to connect to IPv4 only servers. However, when chrome tries to connect to an IPv4 literal (such as when an IPv4 address is directly written i…

RFC6555 Happy Eyeballs and RFC8305 Happy Eyeballs 2

RFC6555 Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6555 RFC3484 gives IPv6 addresses higher precedence than IPv4 addresses. Because of this when IPv6 connectivity is impaired, IPv6-capable applic…