IPv6 Buzz 073: Exploring Microsoft’s IPv6 History

This week’s IPv6 Buzz episode features Justine Vick, network architect and engineer, a Microsoft veteran (most recently with Azure), and all-around IPv6 expert and advocate. Justine’s work with IPv6 at Microsoft dates back to the earliest inclusion of the protocol in its OSes. She was a key contributor to Microsoft’s participation in World IPv6 Day in 2011. Topics discussed include: * Microsoft’s motivations for supporting and deploying IPv6 early * Challenges Microsoft faced using IPv6 in-house * Making the shift to managing and configuring IPv6 addressing from IPv4 * How IPv6 impacts software development practices Thanks for listening! Show Links: Justine Vick via LinkedIn Using 127-Bit IPv6 Prefixes on Inter-Router Links – IETF APIPA – Wikipedia Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses – IETF IPv6 Buzz 064: The Ghosts Of IPv6 – Packet Pushers Your Hosts: * Tom Coffeen @ipv6tom * Scott Hogg @scotthogg * Ed Horley @ehorley