Irish IPv6 Task Force

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Irish IPv6 Task Force

• IPv6 World Congress
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• 20th Feb 2006
• Mícheál Ó Foghlú ltmofoghlu_at_tssg.orggt

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Overview

• Historical Context
• Irish IPv6 Task Force
• Irish National IPv6 Centre
• Planed Events
• Discussion
• Future Direction
• Questions
• (Appendix I, II, III, IV Centre Partners)

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Europe
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Ireland
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Historical Context Ireland

• One of original EU 15, Now EU 25
• Poster boy of the ICT Biotech industries
  (Celtic Tiger)
• More than one mobile phone per person
• Example of how EU infrastructural investment can
  transform member states economies
• Much of economy based on FDI (Foreign Direct
  Investment) largely from North America
• Current political shift is for FDI to focus on
  research (part of building a knowledge economy)
• Argument need to promote IPv6 in Ireland to show
  Ireland has a place in next generation of the
  Internet

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Historical Context Politics

• An interest in IPv6 in a number of constituencies
  in late 1990s
• Academic Networking
• HEAnet (National Research Network, NREN)
• European Funded Research Development
• Framework 5 Programme
• Individual projects with Irish partners
• IPv6 Cluster
• Framework 6 Programme
• Other
• National Research Programmes

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Irish Presidency of EU 2004

• Irish Presidency Jan 2004-Jun 2004 of EU gave a
  political opportunity to engage with the Irish
  national government department with
  responsibility for communications
• DCMNR (Department of Marine, Communications and
  Natural Resources)
• This political lobbying in 2003 culminated in
  John Browne TD, speaking at the launch of the
  IPv6 research network in Brussels in January
  2004.
• The ability for every electronic device to have
  its own unique Internet address opens up endless
  possibilities for manufacturers and consumers."
• John Browne TD
• Irish Minister of State, DCMNR
• Event URL http//www.global-ipv6.net/

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Irish IPv6 Task Force

• After the Brussels event a series of Task Force
  Meetings called
• March 2004
• November 2004
• January 2005 (gap during formation of Centre)
• February 2006
• Main initial outcomes were
• Draft document for formal release
• Agreement to officially nominate a Nation IPv6
  Centre to support the Task Force operationally

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Irish National IPv6 Centre

• Call for Proposals (CfP)
• CfP released 12th April 2005
• Submission deadline 3rd May 2005
• Evaluated over summer 2005
• Irish National IPv6 Centre Launch
• 30th September 2005
• DCMNR (Martin Cullen, Minister)
• EU Commission (Mario Campolargo)
• Partners of centre (WIT, NUI Maynooth, HEAnet, BT
  Ireland)
• Supporters of centre (Dublin INEX, SFI, IPv6
  Forum)

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National IPv6 Centre Makeup

• Telecommunications Software Systems Group,
  Waterford Institute of Technology
• Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth
• HEAnet
• BT Ireland

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National IPv6 Centre Mission

• Support the Irish IPv6 Task Force
• Launched Jan 2004 (by Minister John Browne TD,
  Minister of State, DCMNR)
• Promote the uptake of IPv6 in Ireland
• Awareness raising and deployment issues
• Research the fundamentals of IPv6 protocols
• Low level issues
• Research the next generation services based on
  IPv6
• High level issues
• National IPv6 Centre partners will collaborate to
  create a critical mass of IPv6-related activity
  in Ireland
• Combine to address all these issues and have an
  impact nationally and internationally

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Discussion

• Can view the Irish IPv6 Task Force as being in
  two phases
• Phase I
• Setup phase
• Initial meetings and creation of centre
• Phase II
• Now beginning
• Activity phase
• Looking to this event to give potential structure
  for maximizing impact of Phase II

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Discussion (cont)

• Task Force represents three main constituents
• Academic research at protocol and service layers
• (WIT, NUI Maynooth)
• Academic networking
• (HEAnet)
• National government
• (DCMNR)
• Industrial
• (BT Ireland linked to research interests in UK
  Labs, Ipswich)
• Note commercial support still driven by research
  interests rather than deployment commitments

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Questions

• Mícheál Ó Foghlú ltmofoghlu_at_tssg.orggt
• Research Director TSSG, WIT, Ireland
• http//www.tssg.org
• Director, Irish National IPv6 Centre
• http//www.ireland-ipv6.org
• Happy to Take Questions!!

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APPENDIX I TSSG _at_ WIT

• Details of my involvement in IPv6 related
  activities in the TSSG in WIT
• This may be too specific to my own organisation
  so Ive appended it as an optional appendix.

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TSSG/WIT and IPv6 EU FP5

• In the EU FP5 the TSSG was involved in a number
  of projects that became member of the EU IPv6
  Cluster due to their engagement with issues
  related to IPv6 at various levels. These are
  documented in the two formal reports produced by
  the IPv6 Cluster IPv6 Cluster 2002 IPv6
  Cluster 2003. The FP5 IPv6 projects involving
  the TSSG were
• INTERMON (this looked as quality of services for
  IP and in particular at inter-domain issues of
  quality of service for both IPv4 and IPv6)
• TORRENT (this looked at developing an intelligent
  residential gateway for managing multiple type of
  home Internet connectivity it was based on an
  all IPv6 architecture to enable security with
  IPsec the activity in the TSSG included
  benchmarking the performance of IPsec for IPv6 to
  see how much equipment would be required in an
  ISP to support such an infrastructure)

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TSSG/WIT and IPv6 Irish

• The TSSG won funding from the Irish TSR programme
  (for Institute of Technology) for a Strand III
  project
• CONVERGE (this investigated the three related
  issues of quality of service, security and
  accounting for converged IP-based services
  including IPv4 and IPv6).
• The TSSG led up a submission to the HEA PRTLI
  Cycle 3 of a basic research programme focused on
  managed zones of smart spaces. The core
  architectural approach from the TSSG assumes the
  use of IPv6 as a pervasive internetworking
  technology and seeks to leverage the capabilities
  that this provides such as mobile IPv6
• M-Zones (managing the next generation of
  interoperable smart spaces).
• The TSSG has made the development of an
  integrated testbed core to its ongoing research
  activities. In January 2005 the
• SFI PI Award for Autonomic Computing
• included a substantial budget for development of
  this integrated testbed for next generation
  services, including location detection. This is
  entirely IPv6 at its lower layers and utilises
  IPv6 features for quality of service, security
  and mobility.

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TSSG/WIT and IPv6 EU FP6

• Having established this broad base of interest in
  IPv6, and continuing to represent TORRENT and
  INTERMON at the regular IPv6 Cluster meetings,
  the TSSG made IPv6 a part of its ongoing research
  strategy making it core to all its submissions in
  Calls 1-4 of FP6. A number of these proposals
  were successful and are now running
• Daidalos (creating a platform for pervasive
  communications services over IPv6)
• SEINIT (securing pervasive communications
  services over IPv6)
• SecurIST (setting the security agenda for the
  next EU research framework FP7)
• ENABLE (exploring various forms of Mobile IPv6)

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APPENDIX II HEAnet
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HEAnet - history

• HEAnet has been providing production level IPv6
  services throughout its network since 2003. The
  protocol is supported throughout the core
  network, at all access points of presence (PoPs),
  and through peerings with other networks in
  Ireland, in the rest of Europe, in North America
  and elsewhere. At present, we have three
  institutions connected via native IPv6 (dual
  stacked with their IPv4 connectivity) and four
  institutions with IPv6 tunnel connections.
  Approximately 1 of the traffic in HEAnet is IPv6
  at present.

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HEAnet status matrix

• HEAnet publishes a status matrix HEAnet 2005
  that shows various metrics for the uptake of IPv6
  within HEAnet, as well as in other NRENs in
  Europe. HEAnet was among the very first RIPE
  clients to support the IPv6 implementation of the
  Test Traffic Measurement service.
• http//www.ripe.net/projects/ttm/

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HEAnet software development

• HEAnet has also acted as a developer of IPv6
  software. They have developed the current IPv6
  implementations for Apache, NSD and more. They
  have also added IPv6 multicast support to the
  Apache Portable Runtime, and have organised IPv6
  programming training in-house.

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HEAnet - other

• HEAnet have also developed their own testing
  tools, such as multicast netcat which has full
  ASM and SSM IPv6 Multicast support. Their work
  and experience have helped to diagnose an array
  of obscure IPv6 implementation bugs ranging from
  the IPv6 sendfile bug on Linux (TCP checksum
  offloading bugs) to Cisco CEF bugs. Staff in
  HEAnet have demonstrated a proven ability in
  finding and diagnosing problems.
• HEAnet is involved with SixXS, and also provides
  a 6to4 relay. These services help to promote IPv6
  more widely and to provide transition mechanisms
  to a large amount of users in the country,
  whether they are in HEAnet or not.

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HEAnet

• HEAnet is Ireland's National Research and
  Education Network (NREN), providing high quality
  Internet Services to over 150,000 students and
  staff in Irish Universities, Institutes of
  Technology and other educational and research
  organisations.
• It provides a high-speed national network with
  direct connectivity for its community to other
  networks in Ireland, Europe, the USA and the rest
  of the world.
• Since its formation, the HEAnet community has
  grown five-fold to over 40 organisations that
  include almost every Irish third-level
  institutions.
• Today it is one of the largest Internet Service
  Providers in the country, though it is
  exclusively geared to meet the needs of the
  academic and research community through the
  highest quality telecommunications links and
  value-added Internet services.

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APPENDIX III Hamilton Institute

• _at_ NUI Maynooth, Ireland

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Hamilton Institute (NUI Maynooth)

• The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary
  research centre formally established at the
  National University of Ireland, Maynooth in
  November 2001.
• The Hamilton Institute has an active networks
  group. Research is ongoing in a number of areas
  at the Transport, Network and MAC layers of the
  network stack.
• There are also groups working in Hybrid Systems
  Theory, Machine Learning Cognitive
  Neuroscience, Dynamics and Interaction and
  Systems Biology.
• The Hamilton Institute has 8 Faculty, 12 Research
  Fellows, 16 Research Students and a visitor
  program facilitating a number of researchers from
  other international institutions.
• These researchers are supported by a number of
  grants. The common theme in all projects at the
  Hamilton Institute is mathematics and its
  applications, particularly in ICT and biology.

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Hamilton Institute (NUI Maynooth)

• A 4 year partnership centred on wireless
  networking between the Hamilton Institute, Dublin
  Institute of Technology, University of Limerick,
  Intel Ireland and Corvil Networks has been funded
  by the Science Foundation Ireland .
• The Hamilton Institute is working on strands of
  this project relating to algorithms and protocols
  at the MAC layer. Research on network dynamics
  and Internet Transport layer dynamics is also
  conducted under Science Foundation Ireland
  funding in collaboration with HEAnet .

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Hamilton Institute (NUI Maynooth)

• David Malone
• a project to study the implications of IPv6 for
  fire-walling, resulting in a successful MEngSc
  thesis
• a project to study the impact of DNS problems on
  IPv6 deployment, presented as work at the RIPE
  DNS working group
• a project to assess the availability of "6to4"
  routers, awaiting publication
• an ongoing project to analyse IPv6 deployment
  trends, in conjunction with HEAnet.
• David has been involved with IPv6 deployment
  projects at a number of sites including Trinity
  College Dublin, the Dublin Institute for Advanced
  Studies and the Dublin Institute of Technology.
• David is a co-author of a book on IPv6
  Administration and has also been involved in
  testing of Eircom's trial IPv6 services.

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APPENDIX IV BT Ireland
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BT Ireland

• BT in Ireland is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT
  Group plc, and a fully integrated division of BT
  Global Services.
• With over 900 employees, the company is
  headquartered in Dublin with offices in Cork,
  Limerick, Galway and Waterford.
• BT in Ireland helps organisations large and
  small, corporate and public, Irish and global to
  thrive through the provision of networked
  communication services.
• The parent company, BT is one of the worlds
  leading providers of communications solutions
  serving customers in Europe, the Americas and
  Asia Pacific. Its principal activities include
  IT and networking services, local, national and
  international telecommunications services, and
  higher-value broadband and internet products and
  services.
• BT consists principally of three lines of
  business
• BT Retail,
• providing a comprehensive range of communications
  and related services
• BT Wholesale,
• providing network services and solutions to fixed
  and mobile operators and service providers
  including the provision of broadband, private
  circuits.
• BT Global Services,
• providing IT and networking services to meet the
  needs of multi-site organisations globally. BT
  Global Services operates in more than 130
  countries and also offers international carrier
  services.

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BT Ireland

• Research Activity
• BT have been involved in the specification,
  development and deployment of IPv6 for many years
  now. BT has been a major partner within many
  leading collaborative projects that have had a
  primary focus on IPv6.
• Additionally we have been active within many
  promotional and policy setting bodies at both
  national and pan-European level. BTs research
  technology and IT operations division, BT Exact,
  has a distinguished track record of leading edge
  testbed development and vendor capability
  evaluation. Well-established contacts with IP
  vendors have enabled BT to monitor and influence
  the development of IP network technology.
• BTs IPv6 highlights are
• BT has been actively involved in the IETF
  standardisation process for IPv6 development,
  particularly in the transition tools area.
• BT was one of the first carriers to obtain IPv6
  TLA address allocations
• BT engineers have many years experience of
  developing and operating IPv6 trial and test
  networks such as the initial global IPv6 backbone
  and LEAnet, a BT deployed IPv6 WAN with PoPs in
  Cambridge, Ipswich and London. BT has been
  involved in several world-first demonstrations of
  IPv6 technology including IPv6 over GPRS and 3G,
  and has demonstrated at events such as the Global
  IPv6 Summit and the Global IPv6 Service Launch
  Event.
• BT has implemented and deployed migration tools
  such as NAT-PT, DSTM, 6to4 relay and IPv6 Tunnel
  broker. Based upon this detailed implementation
  experience, BT has filed several patents in the
  area of IPv4 to IPv6 inter-working and transition.

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BT Ireland

• BT has been heavily involved in European Union
  collaborative research projects such as 6INIT,
  Eurescom Armstrong, 6WINIT, Euro6IX, and 6LINK.
  As a consequence BT is a key player in the
  European IPv6 RD community. BT is a work package
  leader in the newly formed SEINIT project which
  is examining IPv6 and security technologies on an
  international testbed.
• BT enjoys key positions on the IPv6 Forum, the EU
  IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee and the UK
  IPv6 Task Force providing IPv6 promotion to the
  wider community. These roles allow BT to maintain
  a detailed understanding of the technology policy
  decisions driving IPv6 deployment, and the
  ability to influence the key players in both
  government and industry.
• IPv6 _at_IETF51 First time host provided IPv6
  connectivity and with commercial IPv6 address
  space
• BT consultants have been draw upon by the
  European Commission, United Kingdom Government,
  and several large private enterprises to provide
  IPv6 expertise and advice.
• BT has developed and operates the UK6x
  (http//www.uk6x.com/), the first IPv6 Internet
  Exchange in the UK. Utilising this
  infrastructure, BT is providing native IPv6
  peering and transit to many customers, and
  tunnelled connections to early adopters.
• IPv6 is a central element of BTs recently
  announced 21CN initiative to provide mobile,
  multimedia services across an integrated
  multi-service network carrying both traditional
  voice services and IP-based services over a
  unified IP core.

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BT Ireland

• In Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK, BT has its leading
  research and technology centre, providing IPv6
  connectivity to advanced research and
  collaborative projects and network testbeds.
• These IPv6 network testbeds have been regularly
  used to evaluate emerging vendor equipment and
  applications.
• BT has been involved in a number of collaborative
  projects both Eurescom and European Commission
  funded. Together, these activities have looked at
  a wide range of problems including
• Deploying an example of the IPv6 Internet across
  Europe.
• Investigating the interoperability of
  interworking mechanisms.
• Wireless access and healthcare applications.
• The role of IPv6 exchange points in a
  pan-European network.
• Security within large-scale IP networks.