Report about 1st IPv6 Conference in Germany

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Report about1st IPv6 Conference in Germany

• Venue Berlin, Germany
• Date 8.-9. Dec. 1999
• Thomas Trede, trede_at_hrz.tu-darmstadt.de

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Organisational Framework

• 2nd conference of the IPv6 Forum
• Hosts DFN (German Research Network) and Deutsche
  Telekom T-Nova
• app. 150 participants
• presentations were made in English and German
  simultaneous translation between the two
  languages was provided

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Highlights of the Conference 1/7

• Presenter Harish Jani
• NTT plans a world-wide native IPv6-network
• IPv6-trial planned to be extended to Europa and
  USA
• one-year trial period (beginning early 2000) ?
  no charge (!) for access to NTTs IPv6 network
• motivation already lot of demand for IPv6 in
  Japan customers also ask for IPv6-connectivity
  in Europe
• new products on the way

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Highlights of the conference 2/7

• Presenter Herbert Heinz Werner
• NATO announced in fall 1999 principal decision
  for IPv6
• German Navy Application of IPv6 with QoS in the
  Navy Areaparticular military requirements wrt
  QoS and Security ? use of IPv6
• pilot application AIS (medical information
  system) is on the way (IPv6 and ATM)

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Highlights of the conference 3/7

• Presenter Hagen Hultzsch, member of the board of
  Deutsche Telekom
• outlined DTAGs interest in IPv6
• e.g. reduction of operations costs with
  autoconfiguration function
• e-commerce apps end-to-end network security in
  IPv6

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Highlights of the conference 4/7

• Presenter Ivano Guardini, Paolo Fasani from
  CSELT
• demo IPv6-connectivity by using tunnel-broker
  software
• plugged into existing IPv4-connectivity
• established IPv6-connection from the conference
  room in Berlin to Torino
• and from Torino to Tokyo
• in less than a minute !

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Highlights of the conference 5/7

• Membership of the IPv6 Forum is still growing
• Matt Holdrege (Lucent, chair of the IETF NAT wg)
  Lucent is joining the IPv6 Forum as member 70.

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Highlights of the conference 6/7

• Vendors and ISPs are still moving forward to the
  implementation of IPv6-service
• Workstation vendors (Sun, Compaq (Digital)) have
  implemented/will implement IPv6 in new OS
  versions
• Router vendors some have implemented already
  (e.g. Telebit), some keep on announcing the
  implementation (e.g. Cisco intends to begin
  shipment of IPv6 capable routers in the second
  half of 2000., Cisco is fully committed to
  IPv6. Axel Clauberg, Cisco)
• Microsoft IPv6 not in Windows 2000
• KAME Project has been prolongued till 03/2002
  ...

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KAME-Project

• We are glad to announce the extension of the term
  of the KAME project to March 2002. The KAME
  project originally planned to close ist
  activities in March 2000. Since the next two
  years are very important for deployment of IPv6
  and the responsibility of the KAME project has
  become larger, we have negotiated the sponsor
  companies of the KAME project for the extension
  and reached consensus. For the next two years,
  the KAME project will continue the current coding
  activities. We will also concentrate on the
  deployment of IPv6.// The KAME project

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Highlights of the conference 7/7

• Presenter Cindy Jung, 3Com
• presentation on 6over4, transition mechanism
  from IPv4 to IPv6
• Support for IPv6 in the USA now also increases
• a number of US-based companies have joined
  together to organize the next IPv6 conference in
  the USA on ...

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Next conferences

• 13.-15.03.2000 Global IPv6 Summit in Telluride,
  Colorado, USA
• 10.05.2000 Global IPv6 Summit Birmingham, UK (in
  conjunction with World Trace Congress / ISS 2000)
• 22.-23.06.2000 Commercial IPv6 conference in
  London, UK
• 27.-30.07.2000 IPv6 Panel, Tokyo, Japan
• 29.11.-01.12.2000 Global IPv6 Summit in Madrid,
  Spain

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Conclusions

• Workstation implementation seems ready and stable
• Router vendors have instable code
• Cisco as major obstacle? (second half 2000?)
• more engagement of ISPs needed?
• Connectivity tests, IXPs IPv6
• customer connectivity
• Ready for IPv6?
• Hardware vs. Software Each side is pointing to
  the other side Why should I be ready if you are
  not ready yet? (hen and egg-problem)
• growth of IPv4-network just do it, the network
  will adapt/evolve (ISPs and users)

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Links

• Berlin conferencehttp//www.berkom.de/ipv6
• IPv6 Forum pagehttp//www.ipv6forum.com Thank
  you for your attention!