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The US Federal government have said that Federal sites must have outward facing services (web, NFSDNS, email etc) working with IPv6 October 2012, and inward facing services working on IPv6 by October 2014. SLAC is not a Federal site it is a contractor (Stanford) operated site. The DoE it will take has taken a lead in converting its sites to IPv6, but that still has not defined our role mandated a conversion at SLAC. However in March 2013, and there is currently no IPv6 project at SLACSLAC started a project to stand up an IPv6 subnet, enhance the SLAC main web server and email server to be IPv6 compliant, update the DNS records (forward and reverse), put together a CyberSecurity Risks and Mitigations document, get management to accept the risk and open up the web and email services to the Internet. We plan to complete this by October 2013.
Steps
One of the first steps will be to choose a perl module to support authentication of IPv6 addresses. Examples possibly include:
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