March 20th, 2010 10:39
The SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum just announced a partnership to promote interoperability. This is very welcome. While I believe there are many SIP applications that work over a pure IPv6 network, I don’t think all applications handle migration properly. There’s still a lot of experience to build up and guidelines to write.
For SIPit 26, I was hoping we could create automated self tests for a lot of IPv6 tests, like:
- Connecting to a domain URI from IPv4, getting IPv6 host records
- Connecting to a domain, getting multiple SRV records with mixed IPv6 and IPv4
- Setting up a call, getting IPv6 in the SDP over IPv4
- Setting up a call to a domain, finding out that DNS for that domain only has IPv6 glue records
- ICE with dual stacks on one end – which transport will be used
- ICE with dual stacks on both ends – is there transport selection preference?
- Setting up a call from IPv4 only phone, getting only IPv6 addresses – selection of default ALG for IPv6
There are a number of test scenarious that needs to be set up. At SIPit, we have enough developers gathered to do this and at SIPit26 we have the support of .se that has IPv6 as one of the focus areas. Let’s test IPv6 at SIPit!
Read the Press Release from the SIP Forum and the IPv6 Forum!