Steve Randall

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ETSI Test Specifications for IPv6
ProtocolsOCG2316-17 June 2004, Sophia
Antipolis

• Steve Randall
• Dieter Hogrefe
• Anthony Wiles

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EC/EFTA Funded IPv6 Testing

• Introduction to MTS-IPT
• IPv6 Testing Project Overview
• Past
• Present
• Future
• Issues related to the IPv6 Testing Project
• Meeting the needs of other TBs
• Funding

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ETSI TC-MTS IP Testing Group (IPT)

• Mandate to develop generic test specifications
• IPT main focus
• Methodologies and techniques for IP testing
• Development of test specifications for IP and
  IP-related technologies

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IPv6 Testing Project

• Project Overview

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Project Overview ETSI Testing IPv6 - Why?!

• Response to ETSI members needs
• To satisfy the European Commissions mandate
• To add value to the IPv6 Forums label program
  IPv6 Ready

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Project Overview ETSI Members Needs

• Provide publicly available, no-cost, standardized
  IPv6 test specifications in a standard testing
  language based upon
• RFC requirements
• Industry practice requirements
• Other requirements (ETSI-specific, IPv6
  logo-specific)
• Provide a framework for efficient development
  within ETSI of future IPv6 test specifications
  such as 3G and NGN
• Note This project will not write 3G or NGN test
  suites

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Project Overview The European Commissions
Mandate

• Complement IPv6-dependent initiatives for
  e-Government, e-Business, e-Health, e-Learning,
  and e-Procurement
• Provide a key element in ensuring deployment,
  interoperability, security, and reliability of
  the IPv6 infrastructure
• Provide an even stronger European representation
  in the IPv6 Forums IPv6 Ready label program

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Project Overview Adding Value to IPv6 Ready
Program

• Publicly available, no-cost, standardized test
  specifications that the user can extend
• Interoperability and conformance tests for both
  mandatory and optional requirements
• Flexible basis on which specific testing
  implementations can be built

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Project OverviewEC/EFTA Funding

• Project proposal submitted by MTS under eEurope
  program
• 50/50 funding ETSI EC/EFTA
• Member States and DG Information Society have
  expressed their strong support

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Project Overview Five Work Packages

• WP 1 IPv6 TTCN-3 Test Development Framework
• WP 2 IPv6 Core test specifications
• WP 3 IPv6 IPv6 Security (IPSEC) test
  specifications
• WP 4 IPv6 IPv6 Mobility test specifications
• WP 5 IPv6 IPv6 Transitioning test specifications

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Project OverviewIPv6 Project Timeline
September
March
September
March
September
STF256
WP1 Framework
WP2 Core
WP3 Security
WP4 Mobility
WP5 Transitioning
2004
2005
2006
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IPv6 Project IssuesMeeting the Needs of Others

• Output of the project will be
• a library of testing specifications
• a development framework within which library
  modules can be used to build specific test suites
• a mechanism for selecting and characterizing
  tests
• Inputs to the project will be
• IETF RFCs
• Generic requirements of 3GPP and ETSI TBs
  interested in IPv6
• Current industry practice
• Interests and experience of the IPv6 Forum

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IPv6 Project IssuesFunding

• EC/EFTA expects ETSIs 50 to include technical
  effort as well as meeting time
• For good project management, this effort must be
  given as STF Expert time
• MTS fortunate to have significant voluntary
  expert time offered by its members for first two
  Work Packages
• Future eEurope projects may need to ask for funds
  from FWP

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Points for Further Discussion

• What is the basis for asking for future EC/EFTA
  funding?
• Do we take EC funds as a sub-contractor purely to
  satisfy EC needs?
• or
• Do we seek co-funding from the EC for projects
  which are of specific interest to ETSI?
• If the latter, how will we fund the 50
  contribution that ETSI will be expected to make?
• Purely voluntary effort?
• FWP/PTCC?
• Other?