Established in 1999, the SixXS project provides a free, non-profit, non-cost IPv6 tunnel broker provisioning system. The supporting website (www.sixxs.net) provides a comprehensive portal to help engineers and enthusiasts find their way around IPv6. This talk will not discuss IPv6 itself, but rather the challenges we faced while building and deploying the world's largest IPv6 tunnel broker. It discusses the design and internals of SixXS: from provisioning to configuration management, frontended by a highly available website as well as a geographically sharded deployment of our points of presence.
Pim van Pelt (1976) is a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is working on Geo (Maps and Earth) and Universal Search. He leads a team that maintains the production infrastructure for highly distributed and high-available internal and end-user facing systems.
Pim can be reached at pim@sixxs.net, pim@google.com and http://www.ipng.nl/resume.html