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Add entry on IPv6 promotion for upstream distfiles from Torsten Zuehlsdorff

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</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='ports'>
<title>IPv6 Promotion Campaign</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Torsten</given>
<common>Z&uuml;hlsdorff</common>
</name>
<email>ports@toco-domains.de</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/IPv6PortsTODO" />
</links>
<body>
<p>There are more and more machines on the internet that
<strong>only</strong> support IPv6. I manage some of them, and
was regularly hit by missing IPv6 support when building ports.</p>
<p>I did some research into the impact of missing IPv6 support
on the ports tree. The results are that 10.308 of 25.522 ports
are not fetchable when using IPv6. This renders &mdash; through
dependencies &mdash; a total of 17.715 ports unbuildable from
IPv6-only systems. All you can do than is wait and hope that
distcache.FreeBSD.org caches the distfile. But this will take
some time, which may not be a luxury available when a piece of
software in use is hit by a security issue.</p>
<p>Based on the research, a promotion campaign for IPv6 was
started. Some volunteers will contact the relevant system
administrators and try to convince them to support IPv6. This
will start in January 2016 and will hopefully create some progress
soon.</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>