Thursday July 27, 2006

All my friends have blogs, so I suppose I need one too... Several colleagues have been trying to persuade me to do this for a while. I'd send an innocent mail to one, and the response would be "you know, that would be a good thing to blog about." One even blogged on my behalf: I became an anonymous "non-blogging colleague." My project lead tried a little psychological persuasion: he pointed out that of the eight team members listed at the top of our architecture document, the five male team members had blogs, while the three female members did not. That almost did it.

But, I thought, what do I have to blog about? Sure, I'm working on a cool project; but if you want to read about that, you can just look at our opensolaris page. I suppose I could go on about my beloved but eternally frustrating San Francisco Giants, but there are already some really good blogs out there on that topic (I'm a big fan of McCovey Chronicles). I have an absolutely adorable nephew I could rave about, but that might become monotonous.

But then last week, I gave a presentation that a colleague and I put together about transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 (prior to joining the NWAM team, I worked on some of the IPv6 projects that went into Solaris 10). When it was all over, I thought wow, that was so much fun, I must be an extrovert after all. Well, that's not exactly what I thought, but I've been persuaded that posting that presentation would be a great reason to start a blog. So here we are.

I won't claim it's fascinating reading (definitely not as much fun as the aforementioned McCovey Chronicles), but if you're thinking about trying out IPv6, the presentation has some good references to check out. And Solaris is a great platform to use for your experimentation (or your deployment!): with two exceptions, Solaris 10 supports all the technologies discussed in the presentation. The two exceptions are DHCPv6 (work on this is staffed and underway), and Teredo (future work on this will depend on market acceptance).

Note: despite appearances, this is not really a 26-page presentation; it is actually 13 slides, followed by the same 13 slides with notes, which will hopefully give you a bit of the context that was presented verbally. Enjoy!

Posted by okie ( Jul 27 2006, 05:15:25 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]