The ForwardingPlane - A wealth of rambling run-on sentences, misspellings, rants, and technical babble.
Jan. 8, 2026
Will Microsoft’s CLAT bring widespread adoption rates for IPv6? Will there be significant advancements in corporate and cloud adoption as well? Will this finally be the year we see the fix for the RFC 6724? Ed Horley, Tom Coffeen, and Nick Buraglio make their predictions for the new year in the first IPv6 Buzz of 2026.
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IPv6.army RFC6724 options picker
Dec. 26, 2025
Email. Possibly the most useful and least sexy of the core set of internet applictions. In past lives I ran Microsoft Exchange , Postfix , cc:Mail , and very, very large Sendmail installations. Since early 2005, though, I have outsourced my own personal email to Google. As an original “google Apps for Your Domain” tester, I had early access to the bevy of tools that Google had to offer, and at my favorite price - $0.
Dec. 18, 2025
Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration platform. Today’s IPv6 Buzz episode explores the benefits of using IPv6 in Kubernetes, and how Kubernetes uses IP addresses in both the control plane and data plane. We also address why the adoption rate is estimated to be so low, from default configurations to issues with non-IPv6-aware applications inside containers. Our guest to help cover this topic is Wim Henderickx , CTO of the IP Division at Nokia.