August 2026 - ipv6-wg - mailman.ripe.net

Call for Co-Chair Candidates
by Raymond Jetten 27 Aug '26

27 Aug '26

Dear IPv6 Working Group, The term of Christian Seitz, who has been one of the co-chairs of the IPv6 Working Group since RIPE 87, ends with the RIPE 93 meeting in Sofia in October. Thus, we have a call for candidates. The term of a IPv6 WG co-chair is three years. A current co-chair may stand for re-selection at the end of their term or may resign voluntarily at any time. What is the IPv6 WG doing: The working group activities may be anything useful in helping people to deploy IPv6, and to manage IPv4/IPv6 co-existence. These activities include: * Outreach * Education * Sharing deployment experiences * Discussing and fixing operational issues The co-chairs also prepare the program for the IPv6 WG session at the RIPE meetings. The working group will cooperate with operators and others, both inside and outside the networking industry, to share resources and combine efforts. The tasks and expectations of a WG co-chair are described here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-861 A WG co-chair must comply with the Code of Conduct: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-766 If you feel you are interested in this or have any questions on this, you can drop the current co-chairs a note: ipv6-wg-chair at ripe.net Please do not send your note to this list, but only to the chairs. (do not use the reply to) We kindly request you to respond at latest Friday 9 October 2026 midday CET (Amsterdam), when the call for candidates will be closed. After this we will announce the candidates on this list, and you can express your support or concerns. However, the official selection will take place at the RIPE 93 Meeting in Sofia during the IPv6 Working Group session. On behalf of the IPv6 WG co-chairs, Christian, Wolfgang, Ray For Internal Use Only

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Call for presentations RIPE93 IPv6 WG
by Raymond Jetten 27 Aug '26

27 Aug '26

Dear IPv6 WG mailing list members, RIPE 93 will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 26-30 October 2026, as well as online. For any form of participation you can register at https://ripe93.ripe.net/register/ The IPv6 Working Group session is scheduled for Thursday 29 October from 9:00-10:30 (UTC+2). We are looking for presentations! Since a couple of meetings we are using Pretalx for both Plenary and WG presentations. If you have something interesting for the IPv6 WG (or also other WGs or the Plenary) please submit your presentations here: https://ripe93.ripe.net/present/call-for-presentations/ You will need a RIPE NCC Access account and enable two-factor authentication in order to access the submission system. If you don't have a RIPE NCC Access account yet, please create it here: https://access.ripe.net/registration If you like to discuss your presentation with us first, please email ipv6-wg chair(a)ripe.net<mailto:chair@ripe.net>. The deadlines mentioned on the CfP page above are for the Plenary. For the WG session we also accept submissions after the deadlines, but for better planning we prefer to have your submission as soon as possible. On 25th of September we will start to decide about the agenda and see, if we still have open slots. Once we have decided on the agenda, we'll contact the presenters. We expect to have a draft of the presentations about two weeks before the meeting and the final slides at least two days before our session. On behalf of the IPv6 WG co-chairs, Wolfgang, Chris and Ray For Internal Use Only

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Happy Eyeballs in Thunderbird SMTP submission flow
by Max Emig 03 Aug '26

03 Aug '26

Hey all, I am about to contribute a happy eyeballs implementations for SMTP into Thunderbird and possibly fix the other gaps as well. Currently, if I did not misread it seems to be a particularly bad offender. Do you have any Happy Eyeballs implementation in FOSS you particularly like for some inspiration? Cheers Max

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