Panel sessions - at previous Networkers I have attended, these have been post-6pm events, and thus you had to be really keen to go to these. Now they are lunch-time interruptions - although a buffet lunch is provided, and there is actually enough time afterwards to get the proper lunch.
The panel for this was split into three - two Unified Comms guys, two network guys (one Service Provider, one Enterprise) and a non Cisco guest (Google person who had actually done real IPv6 deployments). The host introduced this session as a discussion he had been meaning to have with his colleagues that we had been invited to join in with.
The panel discussed the benefits and challenges of moving to IPv6 - and explained how it is inevitable that we have to go there soon. The UC products (specifically Cisco Unified Communications Manager) are ready to be deployed in this manner from version 7, and it is very simple to get this up and running, either in lab or production. It was emphasised that the current recommendations is to run in dual stack mode with IPv4, to ensure compatibility with applications that are IPv6 ready.
As a "dog food" exercise, the IP phones and public wireless infrastructure at Networkers is running IPv6. I have checked this out and the Dragon dances thus I am cool (apparently). I have also used this to check that my home ipv6 network really does have a deny policy on it’s inbound interface (how often do you get to connect to an external IPv6 network ;-))
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