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Irish IPv6 Task Force
IPv6 World Congress
Las Vegas, Nevada
20th Feb 2006
Mícheál Ó Foghlú <[email protected]>
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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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Historical Context: Ireland
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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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• After the Brussels event a series of Task Force
Meetings called:
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March 2004
November 2004
January 2005 (gap during formation of Centre)
February 2006
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– Draft document for formal release
– Agreement to officially nominate a “Nation IPv6
Centre” to support the Task Force operationally
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• 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
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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
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– 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 <[email protected]>
– 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 @ WIT
• Details of my involvement in IPv6 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….
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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
@ NUI Maynooth, Ireland
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Hamilton Institute (NUI Maynooth)
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The Hamilton Institute is a multi-disciplinary research centre formally
established at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth in November
2001.
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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.
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There are also groups working in Hybrid Systems Theory, Machine Learning
& Cognitive Neuroscience, Dynamics and Interaction and Systems Biology.
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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 firewalling, 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.
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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
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BT in Ireland is a wholly owned subsidiary of BT Group plc, and a fully integrated
division of BT Global Services.
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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 and
internet products and services.
BT consists principally of three lines of business:
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providing a comprehensive range of communications and related services
providing network services and solutions to fixed and mobile operators and service providers
including the provision of broadband, private circuits.
BT Global Services,
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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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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. 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 IPv6 highlights are:
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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 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 R&D 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 @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 BT’s 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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• 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.
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