On 8 June, 2011, MAGPI will be participating in World IPv6 Day. World IPv6 Day is an event sponsored and organized by the Internet Society and several large content providers to test public IPv6 deployment.  World IPv6 Day will start at 00:00 UTC on June 8, 2011 and end 23:59 the same day. The main motivation for the event is to evaluate the real world effects of theIPv6 brokenness seen by various synthetic tests. On World IPv6 Day, major web companies and other industry players will come together to enable IPv6 on their main websites for 24 hours.The goal is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 address space runs out. The test will primarily consist of websites publishing AAAA records, allowing IPv6 capable hosts to connect using IPv6. Although Internet service providers (ISP) are encouraged to participate, they are not expected to deploy anything on that day, just increase their readiness to handle support issues.

The video conferencing world is participating in this event by holding a special IPv6 Megaconference, organized by Internet2 and OARnet. 

Dr. Bob Dixon, the founder of the original Megaconference, has contacting video technicians around the world encouraging them to participate in the first IPv6 Megaconference June 8. This comes only twelve years after Dixon held the first worldwide Megaconference to promote videoconferencing.

Dixon, OARnet research engineer, and Ben Fineman, Internet2 system administrator, will hold the IPv6 Megaconference in conjunction with World IPv6 Day, an endeavor to encourage the speedy adoption and testing of IPv6 by technology organizations worldwide.

Video Technician Kenneth Fox successfully held OARnet's first IPv6 videoconference May 19 from a multi-point control unit in Kansas City. This success and the upcoming IPv6 Day encouraged OARnet and Internet2 to hold a Megaconference to provide instruction and incentive for other videoconferencing groups to make the switch. If they have not done so already, participants need to reconfigure their endpoint software and network to be IPv6 compatible. To participate in the World IPv6 Day Megaconference event, please visit the project website for full details.