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@INPROCEEDINGS{Attebury:644532,
author = {Attebury, Garhan and Babik, Marian and Bly, Martin and
Buraglio, Nick and Chown, Tim and Christidis, Dimitrios and
Chudoba, Jiři and DeMar, Phil and Molina, José Flix and
Grigoras, Costin and Hoeft, Bruno and Ito, Hiro and Kelsey,
David and Martelli, Edoardo and McKee, Shawn and Moreira,
Carmen Misa and Nandakumar, Raja and Ohrenberg, Kars and
Prelz, Francesco and Rand, Duncan and Sciabà, Andrea and
Skirvin, Tim and Walker, Christopher},
title = {{T}owards an {IP}v6-only {WLCG}: {M}ore successes in
reducing {IP}v4},
journal = {The European physical journal / Web of Conferences},
volume = {337},
issn = {2100-014X},
address = {Les Ulis},
publisher = {EDP Sciences},
reportid = {PUBDB-2026-00390, FERMILAB-CONF-25-0938-CSAID-ITD},
pages = {01260 -},
year = {2025},
abstract = {The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (WLCG)
community’s deployment of dual-stack IPv6/IPv4 on its
worldwide storage infrastructure has been very successful.
Dual-stack is not, however, a viable longterm solution; the
HEPiX IPv6 Working Group has focused on studying where and
why IPv4 is still being used, and how to flip such traffic
to IPv6. The agreed end goal is to turn IPv4 off and run
IPv6-only over the wide-area network to simplify both
operations and security management.This paper reports our
work since the CHEP2023 conference. Firstly, we present our
campaign to deploy IPv6 on CPU services and Worker Nodes,
with a deadline of end of June 2024. Then, the WLCG Data
Challenge (DC24) performed in February 2024 was an excellent
opportunity to observe the percentage of data transfers
carried by IPv6. We observed the predominance of IPv6 in
data transfers during DC24 and were able to understand yet
more reasons for the use of IPv4 and areas for remedial
action.The paper ends with the working group’s plans for
moving WLCG to “IPv6- only”. One aspect of this is the
possible automated use of IPv6-only clients configured with
a customer-side translator, or CLAT, together with a
deployment of NAT64 using what is often known as
“IPv6-Mostly”, enabling IPv6-only sites to connect to
non-WLCG IPv4-only services.},
month = {Oct},
date = {2024-10-21},
organization = {27th International Conference on
Computing in High Energy and Nuclear
Physics, Krakow (Poland), 21 Oct 2024 -
25 Oct 2024},
cin = {IT},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)IT-20120731},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16 / PUB:(DE-HGF)8},
doi = {10.1051/epjconf/202533701260},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/644532},
}