6bone info display posters at the San Jose IETF

[Bob Fink LBNL]

6bone folk,

Some have mentioned that it might be a good idea to have 6bone information
on display at the IETF in San Jose.

To this end, I propose to make up two 30 X 40 inch foam core poster boards
with 6bone info, and see if we can get the approval from the IETF meeting
arrangers to put them out in the open lobby areas for all attendees to see.

My proposed content for these is below under the headings Poster 1 and 2.

I would like to get input on what is to be on them, and consensus that it
is a good idea to do it.

Comments, corrections, additions and deletions happily accepted, but please
send then to the mailer for all to see.


Thanks,

Bob
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Poster 1

6bone logo w/6bone url under it

6bone stick and ball diagram

Text as follows:

The 6bone is an independent outgrowth of the IETF IPng project that
resulted in the creation of the IPv6 protocols intended to eventually
replace the current Internet network layer protocol known as IPv4. The
6bone is currently an informal collaborative project spanning the entire
world - currently 17 countries and over 80 sites are participating.

One essential part in the IPv4 to IPv6 transition is the development of an
Internet-wide IPv6 backbone infrastructure that can transport IPv6 packets.
As with the existing IPv4 Internet backbone, the IPv6 backbone
infrastructure will be composed of many Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
and user networks linked together to provide the world-wide Internet.

The 6bone is a virtual network layered on top of portions of the physical
IPv4-based Internet to support routing of IPv6 packets, as that function
has not yet been integrated into many production routers. The network is
composed of islands that can directly support IPv6 packets, linked by
virtual point-to-point links called "tunnels". The tunnel endpoints are
typically workstation-class machines having operating system support for
IPv6.

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Poster 2

6bone logo w/6bone url under it

Text blocks as follow:


6bone routing registry (bold heading)

A 6bone routing registry is maintained at the RIPE-NCC project in Holland:

ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ipv6/ip6rr/

This registry provides a way to register the tunnels used in the 6bone,
and allows for automatic services such as:

VRML mapping (e.g., http://www.ipv6.nas.nasa.gov/viz/)
and route tracing (e.g., http://www.ipv6.imag.fr/route.html )



6bone statistics (bold heading)

6bone statistics are available to indicate the status and quality of 6bone
routes and tunnels as needed.  Currently three places provide this
information:  JOIN/DE, NIST/US and TU-BS/DE

http://www.join.uni-muenster.de/local/v6ping/v6answer.html
http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/~ipng/NIST-6bone-status.html
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/~strauss/ipng/stats.html



IPv6 information (bold heading)

IPv6 information resulting from the IETF's IPng project is available at:

http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/ipng-main.html

This includes IPng Overview writeups, IPv6 specifications, information on
IPv6 implementations and relevant IETF IPng working group information



IPv6 implementations (bold heading)

IPv6 router and host implementations are now available for production or
testing from many commercial and academic sources, including implemetations
for both routers and host systems.

Router implementations available include:

Bay, Cisco, Digital and Telebit

Router implementations under development include Ipsilon and Penril.

Host implementations available include:

4.4 BSD Lite, AIX, BSD/OS,
Digital Unix, HP/UX, MacOS, NetBSD, Solaris

Host implementations under development include Linux, Novell, Pacific
Softworks, Siemens Nixdorf BS2000, Streams, Windows.
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