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Irish IPv 6 Task Force IPv 6 World Congress Las Vegas, Nevada 20 th

Irish IPv 6 Task Force IPv 6 World Congress Las Vegas, Nevada 20 th Feb 2006 Mícheál Ó Foghlú <mofoghlu@tssg. org> www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Overview • • Historical Context Irish IPv 6 Task Force Irish National IPv 6

Overview • • Historical Context Irish IPv 6 Task Force Irish National IPv 6 Centre Planed Events Discussion Future Direction Questions (Appendix I, III, IV Centre Partners) 2 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Europe 3 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task

Europe 3 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Ireland 4 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task

Ireland 4 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Historical Context: Ireland • • One of original EU 15, Now EU 25 Poster

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 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 IPv 6 in Ireland to show Ireland has a place in next generation of the Internet 5 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Historical Context: Politics • An interest in IPv 6 in a number of constituencies

Historical Context: Politics • An interest in IPv 6 in a number of constituencies in late 1990 s: – Academic Networking • HEAnet (National Research Network, NREN) – European Funded Research & Development • Framework 5 Programme – Individual projects with Irish partners – IPv 6 Cluster • Framework 6 Programme – Other • National Research Programmes 6 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Irish Presidency of EU 2004 • Irish Presidency Jan 2004 -Jun 2004 of EU

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 IPv 6 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-ipv 6. net/ 7 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Irish IPv 6 Task Force • After the Brussels event a series of Task

Irish IPv 6 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 formal release – Agreement to officially nominate a “Nation IPv 6 Centre” to support the Task Force operationally 8 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Irish National IPv 6 Centre • Call for Proposals (Cf. P) – Cf. P

Irish National IPv 6 Centre • Call for Proposals (Cf. P) – Cf. P released 12 th April 2005 – Submission deadline 3 rd May 2005 • Evaluated over summer 2005 • Irish National IPv 6 Centre Launch – 30 th 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, IPv 6 Forum) 9 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

National IPv 6 Centre: Makeup • Telecommunications Software & Systems Group, Waterford Institute of

National IPv 6 Centre: Makeup • Telecommunications Software & Systems Group, Waterford Institute of Technology • Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth • HEAnet • BT Ireland 10 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

National IPv 6 Centre: Mission • Support the Irish IPv 6 Task Force –

National IPv 6 Centre: Mission • Support the Irish IPv 6 Task Force – Launched Jan 2004 (by Minister John Browne TD, Minister of State, DCMNR) • Promote the uptake of IPv 6 in Ireland – Awareness raising and deployment issues • Research the fundamentals of IPv 6 protocols – Low level issues • Research the next generation services based on IPv 6 – High level issues • National IPv 6 Centre partners will collaborate to create a critical mass of IPv 6 -related activity in Ireland – Combine to address all these issues and have an impact nationally and internationally 11 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Discussion • Can view the Irish IPv 6 Task Force as being in two

Discussion • Can view the Irish IPv 6 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 12 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Discussion (cont) • Task Force represents three main constituents: – Academic research at protocol

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 13 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Questions • Mícheál Ó Foghlú <mofoghlu@tssg. org> – Research Director TSSG, WIT, Ireland •

Questions • Mícheál Ó Foghlú <mofoghlu@tssg. org> – Research Director TSSG, WIT, Ireland • http: //www. tssg. org – Director, Irish National IPv 6 Centre • http: //www. ireland-ipv 6. org • Happy to Take Questions!! 14 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

APPENDIX I: TSSG @ WIT • Details of my involvement in IPv 6 related

APPENDIX I: TSSG @ WIT • Details of my involvement in IPv 6 related activities in the TSSG in WIT • This may be too specific to my own organisation so I’ve appended it as an optional appendix…. 15 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

TSSG/WIT and IPv 6: EU FP 5 • In the EU FP 5 the

TSSG/WIT and IPv 6: EU FP 5 • In the EU FP 5 the TSSG was involved in a number of projects that became member of the EU IPv 6 Cluster due to their engagement with issues related to IPv 6 at various levels. These are documented in the two formal reports produced by the IPv 6 Cluster [IPv 6 Cluster 2002] [IPv 6 Cluster 2003]. The FP 5 IPv 6 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 IPv 4 and IPv 6) – TORRENT (this looked at developing an intelligent residential gateway for managing multiple type of home Internet connectivity; it was based on an all IPv 6 architecture to enable security with IPsec; the activity in the TSSG included benchmarking the performance of IPsec for IPv 6 to see how much equipment would be required in an ISP to support such an infrastructure) 16 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

TSSG/WIT and IPv 6: Irish • The TSSG won funding from the Irish TSR

TSSG/WIT and IPv 6: 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 IPv 4 and IPv 6). • 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 IPv 6 as a pervasive internetworking technology and seeks to leverage the capabilities that this provides such as mobile IPv 6: – 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 IPv 6 at its lower layers and utilises IPv 6 features for quality of service, security and mobility. 17 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

TSSG/WIT and IPv 6: EU FP 6 • Having established this broad base of

TSSG/WIT and IPv 6: EU FP 6 • Having established this broad base of interest in IPv 6, and continuing to represent TORRENT and INTERMON at the regular IPv 6 Cluster meetings, the TSSG made IPv 6 a part of its ongoing research strategy making it core to all its submissions in Calls 1 -4 of FP 6. A number of these proposals were successful and are now running: – Daidalos (creating a platform for pervasive communications services over IPv 6) – SEINIT (securing pervasive communications services over IPv 6) – Secur. IST (setting the security agenda for the next EU research framework FP 7) – ENABLE (exploring various forms of Mobile IPv 6) 18 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

APPENDIX II: HEAnet 19 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv

APPENDIX II: HEAnet 19 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

HEAnet - history • HEAnet has been providing production level IPv 6 services throughout

HEAnet - history • HEAnet has been providing production level IPv 6 services throughout its network since 2003. The protocol is supported throughout the core network, at all access points of presence (Po. Ps), 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 IPv 6 (dual stacked with their IPv 4 connectivity) and four institutions with IPv 6 tunnel connections. Approximately 1% of the traffic in HEAnet is IPv 6 at present. 20 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

HEAnet – status matrix • HEAnet publishes a status matrix [HEAnet 2005] that shows

HEAnet – status matrix • HEAnet publishes a status matrix [HEAnet 2005] that shows various metrics for the uptake of IPv 6 within HEAnet, as well as in other NRENs in Europe. HEAnet was among the very first RIPE clients to support the IPv 6 implementation of the Test Traffic Measurement service. • http: //www. ripe. net/projects/ttm/ 21 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

HEAnet – software development • HEAnet has also acted as a developer of IPv

HEAnet – software development • HEAnet has also acted as a developer of IPv 6 software. They have developed the current IPv 6 implementations for Apache, NSD and more. They have also added IPv 6 multicast support to the Apache Portable Runtime, and have organised IPv 6 programming training in-house. 22 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

HEAnet - other • HEAnet have also developed their own testing tools, such as

HEAnet - other • HEAnet have also developed their own testing tools, such as multicast netcat which has full ASM and SSM IPv 6 Multicast support. Their work and experience have helped to diagnose an array of obscure IPv 6 implementation bugs ranging from the IPv 6 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 Six. XS, and also provides a 6 to 4 relay. These services help to promote IPv 6 more widely and to provide transition mechanisms to a large amount of users in the country, whether they are in HEAnet or not. 23 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

HEAnet is Ireland's National Research and Education Network (NREN), providing high quality Internet Services

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. 24 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

APPENDIX III: Hamilton Institute @ NUI Maynooth, Ireland 25 www. ipv 6 forum. com

APPENDIX III: Hamilton Institute @ NUI Maynooth, Ireland 25 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Hamilton Institute (NUI Maynooth) • The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre formally

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 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. 26 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Hamilton Institute (NUI Maynooth) • A 4 year partnership centred on wireless networking between

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 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. 27 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

Hamilton Institute (NUI Maynooth) • David Malone: – a project to study the implications

Hamilton Institute (NUI Maynooth) • David Malone: – a project to study the implications of IPv 6 for fire-walling, resulting in a successful MEng. Sc thesis; – a project to study the impact of DNS problems on IPv 6 deployment, presented as work at the RIPE DNS working group; – a project to assess the availability of "6 to 4" routers, awaiting publication; – an ongoing project to analyse IPv 6 deployment trends, in conjunction with HEAnet. • David has been involved with IPv 6 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 IPv 6 Administration and has also been involved in testing of Eircom's trial IPv 6 services. 28 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

APPENDIX IV: BT Ireland 29 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish

APPENDIX IV: BT Ireland 29 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

BT Ireland • BT in Ireland is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group

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 world’s 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 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. 30 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

BT Ireland • • Research Activity BT have been involved in the specification, development

BT Ireland • • Research Activity BT have been involved in the specification, development and deployment of IPv 6 for many years now. BT has been a major partner within many leading collaborative projects that have had a primary focus on IPv 6. Additionally we have been active within many promotional and policy setting bodies at both national and pan-European level. BT’s 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. BT’s IPv 6 highlights are: – BT has been actively involved in the IETF standardisation process for IPv 6 development, particularly in the transition tools area. – BT was one of the first carriers to obtain IPv 6 TLA address allocations – BT engineers have many years experience of developing and operating IPv 6 trial and test networks such as the initial global IPv 6 backbone and LEAnet, a BT deployed IPv 6 WAN with Po. Ps in Cambridge, Ipswich and London. BT has been involved in several world-first demonstrations of IPv 6 technology including IPv 6 over GPRS and 3 G, and has demonstrated at events such as the Global IPv 6 Summit and the Global IPv 6 Service Launch Event. – BT has implemented and deployed migration tools such as NAT-PT, DSTM, 6 to 4 relay and IPv 6 Tunnel broker. Based upon this detailed implementation experience, BT has filed several patents in the area of IPv 4 to IPv 6 inter-working and transition. 31 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

BT Ireland – BT has been heavily involved in European Union collaborative research projects

BT Ireland – BT has been heavily involved in European Union collaborative research projects such as 6 INIT, Eurescom Armstrong, 6 WINIT, Euro 6 IX, and 6 LINK. As a consequence BT is a key player in the European IPv 6 R&D community. BT is a work package leader in the newly formed SEINIT project which is examining IPv 6 and security technologies on an international testbed. – BT enjoys key positions on the IPv 6 Forum, the EU IPv 6 Task Force Steering Committee and the UK IPv 6 Task Force providing IPv 6 promotion to the wider community. These roles allow BT to maintain a detailed understanding of the technology policy decisions driving IPv 6 deployment, and the ability to influence the key players in both government and industry. – IPv 6 @IETF 51 – First time host provided IPv 6 connectivity and with commercial IPv 6 address space – BT consultants have been draw upon by the European Commission, United Kingdom Government, and several large private enterprises to provide IPv 6 expertise and advice. – BT has developed and operates the UK 6 x (http: //www. uk 6 x. com/), the first IPv 6 Internet Exchange in the UK. Utilising this infrastructure, BT is providing native IPv 6 peering and transit to many customers, and tunnelled connections to early adopters. – IPv 6 is a central element of BT’s recently announced ‘ 21 CN’ 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. 32 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force

BT Ireland • In Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK, BT has its leading research and

BT Ireland • In Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK, BT has its leading research and technology centre, providing IPv 6 connectivity to advanced research and collaborative projects and network testbeds. • These IPv 6 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 IPv 6 Internet across Europe. – Investigating the interoperability of interworking mechanisms. – Wireless access and healthcare applications. – The role of IPv 6 exchange points in a pan-European network. – Security within large-scale IP networks. 33 www. ipv 6 forum. com IPv 6 Forum Irish IPv 6 Task Force