IPv6 initiatives within the European National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)

Author

Chown, Tim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

2003

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

152

Abstract

We present an overview of the IPv6 activities of European National Research and Education Networks, both within the individual national programmes and in joint studies undertaken within the GEANT Task Force for Next Generation Networks working group. The group has an international testbed activity (GTPv6) under which many IPv6 aspects have been studied, including routing, interoperability, DNS, multicast, registries and addressing, firewalls, transition and IPv6 applications. We present a summary of initiatives, including the m6bone multicast IPv6 network, a successful attempt at the IPv6 Land Speed Record, and the migration of two NRENs - SURFnet and Funet - to dual-stack IPv6 operation.

Keywords

Internet; open systems; protocols; research initiatives; telecommunication network routing; DNS; European National Research and Education Networks; Funet; GEANT Task Force for Next Generation Networks working group; GTPv6; IPv6 Land Speed Record; IPv6 initiatives; SURFnet; addressing; dual-stack IPv6 operation; firewalls; individual national programmes; international testbed activity; interoperability; m6bone multicast IPv6 network; multicast; registries; routing; transition; Bandwidth; Computer science; Computer science education; Educational programs; LAN interconnection; Next generation networking; Protocols; Routing; Spine; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1873-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINTW.2003.1210145

Filename

1210145