Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 14:45:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Dru Lavigne <dru@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r49060 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201607071445.u67Ej0ll087718@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: dru Date: Thu Jul 7 14:45:00 2016 New Revision: 49060 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49060 Log: Add status report on IPv6 promotion campaign from tz@freebsd.org. Reviewed by: wblock Sponsored by: iXsystems Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Wed Jul 6 18:48:41 2016 (r49059) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-04-2016-06.xml Thu Jul 7 14:45:00 2016 (r49060) @@ -548,4 +548,54 @@ tracker.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>IPv6 Promotion Campaign</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Torsten</given> + <common>Zühlsdorff</common> + </name> + <email>tz@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/IPv6PortsTODO">Wiki Page</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>Half a year ago, I started a promotion campaign to improve + support for fetching ports via IPv6. Research performed in + December, 2015 showed that 10,308 of 25,522 ports are not + fetchable when using IPv6-only as these ports ignore the <a + href="distcache.freebsd.org">FreeBSD.org pkg mirror</a>.</p> + + <p>As a result of the campaign, the following servers now + successfully support IPv6:</p> + + <ol> + <li><a href="mirror.amdmi3.ru">mirror.amdmi3.ru</a></li> + + <li><a href="vault.centos.org">vault.centos.org</a></li> + + <li><a href="mirror.centos.org">mirror.centos.org</a></li> + + <li><a href="gstreamer.freedesktop.org">gstreamer.freedesktop.org</a></li> + + <li><a href="people.freebsd.org">people.freebsd.org</a></li> + </ol> + + <p>This enables 711 more ports to be fetched via IPv6.</p> + + <p>I would like to thank Wolfgang Zenker who is very active in + supporting the adoption of IPv6. During the latest RIPE + meeting, he brought up the topic of non-support of IPv6 + being a hindrance to business. I am hopeful that his talk + changed some more minds and will help widen the support of + IPv6.</p> + </body> + </project> </report>
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