Harrisonburg, VA has made headlines for its work towards becoming the first city with a citywide IPv6 network but what does it mean to be a trailblazer in this area? It means, in part, that there are no examples to work from so when problems come up with realizing the new system, it’s up to Harrisonburg to figure them out. But they seem to be rising to the challenge; when they needed to figure out how to incorporate both existing and new IP standards into the network, they simply made the new software themselves. If it goes well, this could put Harrisonburg on the map as one of the most forward-thinking Internet cities in the U.S.