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[moonv6] FW: [CAv6TF] MoonV6 IPv6 Project
From: Bound, Jim (jim.bound@hp.com)
Date: 03/16/05
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Folks,
This is very good for all to note and understand about Moonv6. We must always make sure history is not rewritten for efforts under the leadership of the IPv6 Forum.
thanks Geof for this and its useful to the greater IPv6 community too.
/jim
From: geof (Maxson Group) [mailto:geof@maxsonsearch.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:52 AM
To: geof@maxsonsearch.com
Subject: [CAv6TF] MoonV6 IPv6 Project
This info is to clarify to the newer members of the CAv6TF the origins and oversight of Moonv6, one of most ambitious and developed programs associated with the North American IPv6 Task Force. As we move foward with the MetroNet6 project, which will eventually interface with Moonv6,
and we will want to be clear in communicating the correct orgins and oversight of Moonv6.
Please take a minute and review the summary info for Moonv6 below, and learn more about the history and direction of Moonv6. If you would like even more information you can visit the Moonv6 website at www.moonv6.org.
Moonv6
The Moonv6 project is a global effort led by the North American IPv6
Task Force (NAv6TF <http://www.nav6tf.org/> ) involving the University
of New Hampshire - InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL
<http://www.iol.unh.edu/index.php> ), Internet2 <http://internet2.edu/>
, vendors <http://www.moonv6.org/menu_vendor.php> , service providers
and regional IPv6 Forum Task Force network pilots worldwide. Taking
place across the U.S. at multiple locations, the Moonv6 project is the
largest permanently deployed multi-vendor IPv6 network in the world. The
U.S. Goverment's Department of Defense Joint Interoperability Testing
Command (JITC <http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/> ) and other government
agencies, the Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN) and the High
Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP).also play
significant roles in the Moonv6 demonstrations ensuring DoD
interoperability and migration objectives are identified and
demonstrated.
Why is this project named "Moonv6"?
The actual motivation of Moonv6 was defined at an NAv6TF, U.S. Cyberspace Security Office, and other participants (November 2002), during discussions to determine how serious should the U.S. take IPv6 as a mission. The question posed to the participants was: "Should we treat IPv6 as we did going to the Moon in 1969?" Later when it was decided to investigate how to deploy a U.S. wide IPv6 Network Pilot at a meeting at the University of New Hampshire in March of 2003, including NAv6TF, University of New Hampshire, and Department of Defense principals, the term Moonv6 was selected to name this Network Pilot. Moonv6 is now a world wide inclusive project with many participants.
What is the Moonv6 Peering Network?
The Moonv6 network is a set of native IPv6 connections between sites on the global Internet that will forward packets to other Moonv6 peering sites. Participants can have a native IPv6 connection to the Internet, and Moonv6 will permit IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel hops for a 90 day period to test on the Moonv6 network, provided the requestor, not Moonv6 administration, defines and administers those tunnels.
What is a Moonv6 Peering Site?
A Moonv6 site is one that forwards packets within the Moonv6 Peering Network and also participates as a Moonv6 site for collaborative testing of IPv6 implementations for interoperability and verification of functions within the IPv6 protocol and architecture. To become a Moonv6 peering network, a network must IPv6 peer with anexisting Moonv6 peering network. To become a Moonv6 site, one must connect to an existing Moonv6 peering network.
In addition to the peering network itself, the Moonv6 project also encompasses deployment-style device testing at several network sites. Participants execute rigorous, protocol-specific test plans created under the guidance of telecommunication carriers, service providers and other real network operators. In addition to greatly extending the participants' own R&D efforts, this testing helps to create confidence in the technology and shorten its adoption cycle. For more information about joining the Moonv6 project Please send mail to ... Ben Schultz , Jim Bound , and Rick Summerhill .
geof lambert - Chairman
California IPv6 Task Force
geof@maxsonsearch.com <mailto:geof@maxsonsearch.com>
www.CAv6TF.org <http://www.CAv6TF.org> <mailto:geof@maxsonsearch.com>
916-852-6769
WHAT IS THE CALIFORNIA IPv6 TASK FORCE:
The California IPv6 Task Force is a sub-chapter of the North American IPv6 Task Force, www.NAv6TF.org <http://www.nav6tf.org/> , which is dedicated to the advancement and propagation of IPv6 (Internet Protocol, version 6) in the North American continent. Comprised of individual members, rather than corporate sponsors, the CAv6TF mission is to provide technical leadership and innovative thought for the successful integration of IPv6 into all facets of networking and telecommunications infrastructure, present and future.
CAv6TF is going to be hosting a multi-day seminar next year in Sacramento pertaining to IPv6. It will be very similar to this seminar: www.IPv6seminar.com <http://www.ipv6seminar.com/>
WHAT IS IPv6 AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT
(Reference Source: Vint Cerf, Honorary Chairman, IPv6 Forum, Click here for Vint's personal homepage <http://www.worldcom.com/cerfsup> )
Over 200 countries are impacted by the Internet, and are looking to make the Internet work to help their people. Many interactions between the United Nations and ICANN, the organization that coordinates top-level domain names, have been made to discuss the future of the Internet and how it can be used to improve the quality of life for the world's population.
IPv6 stands for Internet Protocol Version 6. The current Internet, based on TCP/IP, has been in use in more or less its current form as IPv4 since January 1983. IPv4 uses a 32-bit address, enabling only 4 billion addresses. With increasing demand for IP addresses the supply of new existing addresses becomes smaller and smaller with each passing day. As time goes on cell phones and PDA devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated and Internet enabled, which will create even greater demand for IP addresses. What if we wanted to give every cell phone it's own IP address, so that you would be able to order movie tickets from Fandango, or book a flight to Barbados for the weekend while standing in line at the grocery store? Not enough addresses. What if you wanted to give each car an IP address so that your mechanic will automatically know when it is time for you to schedule an oil change, or if you wanted to learn the current traffic pattern between Dulles International Airport and Leesburg, VA while driving down Interstate 70? There are 56 million new vehicles made each year, and almost 800 million on the road today. Not enough IPv4 addresses for this either. The list continues with dozens of product categories; Boeing estimates that the average home in the US has over 250 different devices that could benefit from being connected to the Internet. Multiply this by 500 million households, and you can see there is a great demand for the current supply of remaining addresses.
The introduction of IPv6 can help remove this potential gridlock on the global information superhighway. IPv6 addresses are 128-bit addresses, enabling 3.8 x 10 to the 38th power, or trillions of trillions of trillions of IP addresses...enough for every grain of sand on earth. IPv6 has a very proven level of reliability and technical usability.
IPv6 has other advantages: restoring the end to end and peer to peer communications model for the Internet, more flexible packet headers, Jumbograms (so that a packet payload can be up to 4 GB vs. 64 KB - making downloading a MP3 of the new Enya song as quick and easy as screwing in a new light bulb), stateless address auto-configuration and node discovery optimizations to support mobility, and a mandatory requirement for IP layer security using IPsec. These benefits improve the quality and utility of the Internet, in addition to making the Internet potentially available to every person, place and thing as we evolve the Internet to support next generation networking and a mobile society.
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