Agencywide IPv6 Transition

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Agencywide IPv6 Transition

• NISN Quarterly Customer Videocon
• March 10th, 2008
• John McDougle

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Agenda

• Current Status
• Recent Changes to Project
• Recent OMB Deliverables

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Current Status

• The Agency Enterprise Architecture Team, in
  cooperation with the Agency IPv6 Team submitted
  both the Quarterly and Annual IPv6 updates to OMB
• NASA currently holds a Level 5 (out of 5) rating
  with OMB regarding IPv6
• The Agency IPv6 Team has been working with the
  NASA Network Architecture Board (NAB) to update
  and finalize an IPv6 Address Allocation Plan
• Currently working to develop approach to
  gathering and submitting the required documents
  proving NASA is IPv6 capable and meets the OMB
  mandate

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Recent Changes to the Project

• Key changes have changed the direction of the
  overall IPv6 project
• Instead of enabling Center LAN to Center LAN IPv6
  connectivity, the project is currently working
  with NISN to enable WAN node to WAN node
  connectivity
• This removes most required host Center support
  from the project
• Test hosts will be utilized across the network to
  generate and collect the required data for OMB
• Additionally, the Center LAN to External Network
  requirement has been replaced with WAN node to
  External Network
• Overall goal of the Agencywide IPv6 Transition
  project is now to provide documentation to OMB
  highlighting IPv6 WAN connectivity
• Initial implementation should be temporary, with
  full IPv6 (even down to the desktop) coming at a
  later phase

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OMB Deliverables

• The Agency IPv6 Transition team has submitted the
  following documents to OMB to substantiate our
  current Level 5 rating
• Memorandum of Testing Status
• Executive Summary of Pilot Test Program results
• There is currently one remaining OMB deliverable,
  due in June of 2008
• OMB has requested a Demonstration Plan
• Federal CIO Working Group has developed a
  template highlighting what is required to ensure
  Agency compliance
• Overall Network Diagram
• 10 successful IPv6 pings from every IPv6 test
  host to every test host
• Successful Trace Route from every IPv6 test host
  to every test host
• The test hosts must be placed at all core
  locations

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Next Steps

• Work with NISN to develop overall approach to
  generating and collecting the required OMB data
• Utilize existing assets located throughout the
  network
• Temporary enable IPv6 to collect data, and then
  disable it