Transcript IPv6 Forum India An Update

IPv6 Forum India
An Update
Hemanth Dattatreya
President
IPv6 Forum India
Internet Enablers in India
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Policies
– Easy ISP licensing
– Access to under-sea fibre on the west
coast
– VoIP opened up from 1 April 2002
– Mobile phone companies provide access
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Competitiveness
– About 300 ISPs licensed; 53 operational
– Mobile phone companies join in
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Increased local access points
– Cable, metro-ethernet, ISDN-BRI, dial-up
Updates … (as of Feb 2003)
• Many operators have rolled out SMS based
applications
– Cricket updates, dating services, weather info, astro etc
• GPRS services rolled out in major cities by
– Orange / Hutch
– Bharti / Airtel mobile
• CDMA 1x services rolled out nationwide by
– Reliance Telecom
– Tata Indicom
• MMS services to be rolled out soon
– Bharti (?)
ERNET India
Case Study
ERNET India – major POPs
ERNET India – remote reach via satellite
ERNET India – v6 readiness:
Edge vs Core
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Core
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No specific switching across the backbone
(MPLS ...)
All core routers IPv6 ready
Network Monitoring & Traffic Management !
Provisioning
Edge
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Address allocation
Authentication & Accounting
Services
Mobility
ERNET India – v6 readiness:
Servers
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Servers IPv6 ready
Mobility suite testing
Services testbed on Linux
– Mobility ?
Personal communication devices
– How to handle them from an operator's
perspective ?
ERNET India – v6 readiness:
Conclusions
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Move to IPv6 : YES !
Move NOW to IPv6: Hmmmm !
IPv6 Ready: YES !
What more ?
– Better operational understanding
– Network monitoring & Management ?
– Secure services – PKI ?
… we have come a long way
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Incorporation as a non-profit society in Sep 2000
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Inaugural Global Summit Jan 3-5, 2001
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200+ participants, 50+ companies
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Formation of E&A Working Group (charter)
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… and then many Q’s on Business Case
October Interop event - 6 vendors
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Global Summit 2002
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An experiment: The CEO roundtable
Jan 23-25, 2002
CEO Roundtable: talk + panel discussion = Huge
success
IPv6 Forum India Quarterly Newsletter
• http://ipv6forum.org.in/newsletters/q2-2002.pdf
Global IPv6 Summit 2003
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250+ participants
40+ participants in the 3rd successful CEO
roundtable
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Brief intro to v6
Review of status of deployment WW
Open forum discussion on v6
Evolution of consensus on immediacy of IPv6
deployment
Workshop conducted on
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operators (NOCs)
Application porting and migration
Student Community interaction & IPv6
• Talks/seminars & ideas for projects
• Project work guidance
• Possible internships with companies
Student Community interaction & IPv6 (II)
Results so far
– Two worthwhile projects
• Prototype implementation of the LCNA draft
on the ELKS kernel
• Implementation of the DHCPv6 Draft on
Linux
– Convert the DHCPv6 effort into a
SourceForge project (?)
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sustain interest and coding efforts
• look for companies to take over the effort
Bangalore Linux Users Group
http://ipv6.linux-bangalore.org
• IPv6 deployment under Linux
• Howto/how-did-you’s/local expertise
• Active local IPv6 user group (kickstarted
June 2002)
6IG – IPv6 Interest Group
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User group dedicated to “hands on” issues
of deployment
Three meets so far (in Bangalore)
– 6IG launch
– FreeOS and IPv6: importance for
deployment
Demos (Linux and Cisco)
Focuses on the strength of Indian IT
industry – large technical talent pool
Bv6 – Bangalore Metropolitan Network
Test network
Hands-on experience for partners
Deploy services & Test
Test infrastructure like PKI
Showcase
Applications Security
Interoperability
Network, Applications
Enable device testing (Simputer,
other similar devices)
IP & Copyrights issues !
Achievements
• Ministry of Communication & IT (MCIT) statement
of endorsement
• Inter-fora participation & dialogue
– IMTC
– ISPAI
– MAIT
– CII
– VSATI
• Others
– ISOC briefing paper on Security & Privacy
The Year 2003
• Plan + Target
– Focus on Deployment
• Interact with and enable the government to
formulate a strategy for v6 deployment
• Strengthen Inter-fora participation
• Cooperative efforts with the EU, TW, JP, US, KR,
CN
• A local test network – Bv6
• Sustain 6IG & Newsletter efforts
• Leverage the strengths of the Local Linux
community & work with them
– ISOC briefing paper on Porting IPv6 Applications
Questions ??
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