[Labs-l] [Wikitech-l] Update on IPv6

Sat Jun 2 12:12:48 UTC 2012

OK, but how can you have production ready for ipv6 and testing platform not :P

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> It's going to be a while. We're setting performance and stability as
> our current top priority.
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We really need to enable it on deployment project, soon, is there any
>> progress regarding
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35947
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Nevermind, I didn't check that the ipv6 was recently enabled there as well
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> It would be so easier to update the tools if we had ipv6 enabled on
>>>> wikimedia labs. Right now the development is complicated since there
>>>> is no test site. But I am happy to see that we are getting some
>>>> progress in this.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> June 6, 2012 is IPv6 Day ( http://www.worldipv6day.org/ ). The goal of
>>>>> this global event is to move more ISPs, equipment manufacturers and
>>>>> web services to permanent adoption of IPv6.
>>>>>
>>>>> We're planning to do limited production testing of IPv6 during the
>>>>> Berlin Hackathon 2012 (June 2-3). Provided that the number of issues
>>>>> we encounter are manageable, we may fully enable IPv6 on IPv6 day, and
>>>>> keep it enabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> MediaWiki has been used with IPv6 by third party wikis for some time.
>>>>> Wikimedia uses a set of additional features (GlobalBlocking,
>>>>> CheckUser, etc.) which weren't fully IPv6-ready until recently. In
>>>>> addition, we're working to ensure that all of Wikimedia's various
>>>>> services (mailing lists, blogs, etc.) are IPv6-ready.
>>>>>
>>>>> == What's the user impact going to be? ==
>>>>>
>>>>> At least in the June 2-3, 2012 time window, you may see a small number
>>>>> of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form
>>>>> "2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See [[w:IPv6 address]].
>>>>>
>>>>> These addresses should behave as any other IP adress would: You can
>>>>> leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions;
>>>>> you can block them. CIDR notation is supported for rangeblocks.
>>>>>
>>>>> An important note about blocking: A single user may have access to a
>>>>> much larger number of addresses than in the IPv4 model. This means
>>>>> that range blocks (e.g. address with "/64") have to be applied in more
>>>>> cases to prevent abuse by more sophisticated users.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the mid term, user scripts and tools that use simple regular
>>>>> expressions to match IPv4 addresses will need to be adapted for IPv6
>>>>> support to behave correctly. We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be
>>>>> very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we
>>>>> will assist in the monitoring of the situation.
>>>>>
>>>>> User:Jasper Deng is maintaining a comprehensive analysis of the long
>>>>> term implications of the IPv6 migration here:
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng/IPv6
>>>>>
>>>>> We've set up a test wiki where you can see IPv6 IP addresses. This
>>>>> works by assigning you a fake IPv6 address the moment you visit the
>>>>> wiki, and allows you to see the behavior of various tools with the new
>>>>> address format:
>>>>> http://ipv6test.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>>>>>
>>>>> The best way to report issues is to register them in Bugzilla and to
>>>>> ensure that they are marked as blockers for the IPv6 tracking bug:
>>>>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35540
>>>>>
>>>>> We'll post updates to wikitech-l and elsewhere as appropriate.
>>>>>
>>>>> All best,
>>>>> Erik
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Erik Möller
>>>>> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>>
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