<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 5 May 2020, at 21:21, Dr Gerard Bulger <gerard@bulger.co.uk> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>Is there any work going on which would allow Tor to work with IPV6 alone? i.e. no IPV4 OR ports etc.</span></div></blockquote><br>To protect user privacy, we need more dual-stack relays, before we can have IPv6-only relays.<br><br><div>At the moment, we're working on improvements to IPv6 support on dual-stack relays, including IPv6 relay-to-relay connections, IPv6 ORPort reachability self-tests, and IPv6 address auto-detection. (These features are also useful for future IPv6-only relays.)</div><div><br></div><div>You can read more details in the list archives, search for "Sponsor 55" or "IPv6". Here's one recent email:</div><div><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-March/018250.html">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-March/018250.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Once we have more dual-stack relays, we could work on:</div><div>* bridges with inbound IPv6 ORPorts, and outbound IPv4 connectivity</div><div>* IPv6-only bridges</div><div>* IPv6-only exits</div><div><br></div><div>We'll probably start on IPv6-only exits first, because exits are scarce. Here are some of the issues we need to fix to make that happen:</div><div><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-May/014262.html">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-May/014262.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>T</div></body></html>