<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Thanks Sunny,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is fantastic information!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s awesome to see a carrier like Telstra interfacing with us as a community. IPv6 is not a small change and seeing this sort of effort from Telstra is a great sign.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Tim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 Aug 2016, at 8:47 PM, Sunny Yeung <<a href="mailto:xevious60@gmail.com" class="">xevious60@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Hi
AusNOGgers!</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">As
a first step in our transition to IPv6, Telstra is proud to announce the
availability of IPv6 to the general public on Telstra Wireless by the end of
August/early September 2016. This means when you attach your mobile device to the Telstra network on
Telstra.WAP or Telstra.Internet APNs, depending on your device configuration, you
will receive both an IPv4 and IPv6 address from the network.</span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Note that the enablement is currently targeted at post-paid services only.<br class=""></span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""></div><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Some
more official announcements will be provided over the next few weeks so keep an eye out for more information. <br class=""></span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Overview</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""></span></p>
<ul type="disc" class=""><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">IPv6
is a new internet protocol for the future. It contains a new addressing
format for devices and applications to connect and communicate over the
global internet.</span></li><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Due
to the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses worldwide, Telstra is preparing our
mobile customers by introducing IPv6 addresses for each service.</span></li><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Telstra’s
goal for activating IPv6 is to provide the same service as IPv4, but with
a more modern protocol which will allow for future growth of the Internet,
and support for future technologies such as IoT. </span></li><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">The
Long Term strategy is to use IPv6 only for the entire network end-to-end. </span></li><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">IPv6
is live on the standard Telstra.WAP and Telstra.Internet APNs. Access to
IPv6 requires further configuration on the user device, which Telstra will
provide automatically at a later date.</span></li></ul><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">How
much does it cost?</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""></span></p>
<ul type="disc" class=""><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">It
is available at the same cost as existing IPv4 services for all Telstra
customers</span></li></ul><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Will
IPv6 change the way I use the internet?</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""></span></p>
<ul type="disc" class=""><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">There
is no direct change in usage experience. </span></li><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Network
administrators and IT professionals who manage network equipment and
internet applications should start planning for using the new addressing
structure so that their systems and applications are also accessible using
IPv6 addresses. </span></li><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">As
IPv4 will be in place for many years to come across the general internet,
more advanced users may change to enable IPv6 at their own pace over the
coming 2+ years.</span></li></ul><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">How
will I know if I am using IPv6 or have IPv6 available?</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt" class=""></span></p>
<ul type="disc" class=""><li class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt" class="">Depending
on if you have a device with IPv6 enabled or not, one can visit <a href="http://ipv6.test-ipv6.com/" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" class="">ipv6.test-ipv6.com</span></a>
to test their IPv6 connection. This page will not load if one is not using
IPv6.</span></li></ul><div class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> </div><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Ok now that
we’ve gotten the fluffy stuff out of the way…</span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">What you will experience over the
next few months…</span></b></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">The
enablement will be carried out over two phases. Phase 1 is really a network
function ready announcement and deployment for Dual-Stack support. This means
the network is ready to carry both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. Fundamentally there
is no difference between the two APNs at this stage. This is what we will be
releasing by the end of August/early September.</span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Phase 2 is
where it will get interesting. We will begin enabling Single-Stack IPv6 devices
on Telstra.WAP, and maintaining devices that attach to Telstra.internet as
dual-stack. There are some good reasons for this. </span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""><span class="">1.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman"" class="">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Single-Stack
IPv6 resolves some issues with private IPv4 address depletion. We will
be doing this with 464XLAT+NAT64+DNS64 on telstra.wap. This setting is primarily targeted at
handsets and tablets. We will be updating handsets and tablets that can support this with the updated
carrier settings via Maintenance updates in the very near future. Almost all android handsets released over the last year by Telstra already supports 464XLAT, and it just requires a carrier setting update :)<br class=""></span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""><span class="">2.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman"" class="">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Telstra.Internet
is primarily used for dongles, BYOD tablets, WIFI Modems and tethering etc. we
have no idea what’s on the other end and whether it supports IPv6. So we are
leaving it alone as dual-stack for the time being. This APN will continue to
use our regular DNS with no NAT64/DNS64 so single-stack IPv6 users beware on
this APN! </span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Technically
single-stack is working today already on Telstra.wap, and we are just ironing
out some teething issues, but officially we are going to be announcing
Dual-Stack support first. The network has technically been running with IPv6
enabled for about 3 years already, and if you didn’t know, VoLTE is entirely
IPv6 only. </span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""> </div><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Why is AusNOG hearing this now?</span></b></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Apart from
being a fantastic community forum, I feel it is important that our technical
community is aware of our changes first. As with all things there will be
teething problems when we launch. We have already identified issues with IPv6
addressing interacting with some embedded wireless adapters and Windows 8.1. (it
just fails until the interface is reset). We have done testing with certified
Telstra equipment but we cannot possibly test every application / OS. So far in
our testing, the network appears to be responding correctly to IPv4v6 requests,
but we know that community engagement will be important on launch to keep the
IPv6 momentum going. The last thing we want is to roll back to IPv4!</span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">To make sure
we get a 2<sup class="">nd</sup> opinion, we have also engaged an external organisation
to help us test, and they have been helping us with testing for a better part
of one year already, and have reported minimal issues so far. I want to take an
opportunity to thank APNIC for their efforts, their patience while we got
everything up and running.</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><b class="">I want to connect now!<br class=""></b></div>Go right ahead! just be warned official support is not yet available until we officially launch in a few weeks. but i'll do my best to help. First you need a Telstra post-paid service. You need to create a new APN in your device and then save it and select it:<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Non-Mobile device:<br class="">Dual-Stack</b><br class=""></div>APN profile: telstra.internetDS<br class="">APN name: telstra.internet<br class=""></div>APN type: default<br class=""></div>APN protocol: IPv4/IPv6<br class=""></div>APN roaming protocol: IPv4<br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Mobile device:<br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">select telstra.wap APN not any others<br class=""></b></div><div class="">APN profile: telstra.wapv6<br class=""></div>APN name: telstra.wap<br class=""></div>APN type: default,hspl<br class=""></div>APN protocol: IPv4/IPv6 (you can set this to IPv6 only as well)<br class=""></div>APN roaming protocol: IPv4<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">APN name: telstra.internet<br class=""></div>APN type: dun<br class=""></div>APN protocol: IPv4/IPv6<br class=""></div>APN roaming protocol: IPv4
<div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Contacting us</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""></span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Telstra will
be creating contact points in Crowdsupport, and a special email address to
which will be shared later where you can engage with our engineering team
directly when required. For the meantime, I am reachable if you have any
specific questions. We want to work with the community to make this a smooth
transition as much as possible.</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""><br class=""></span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">Sunny Yeung<br class=""></span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:sunny.yeung@team.telstra.com" class=""><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class="">sunny.yeung@team.telstra.com</span></a></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%" class=""><br class=""></span></p>
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