ETRI/KR pTLA request

[Bob Fink]

6bone Folk,

ETRI (the Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) is
requesting a pTLA on behalf of the 6Bone-KR(Korea) Project. Following are
their answers to our generic requirements. 

Please send your comments for or against either directly to me or to the
mailer.

I would like to process this by 11 May (I am out of town next week).


Thanks,

Bob

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1. Must have experience with IPv6 in the 6Bone, at least as a leaf site and
preferably as an NLA transit under a pTLA.

We have collaborated IPv6 project with Soongsil Univ.(SSU)(one of the
members of the 6Bone-KR) and implemented IP version 6 for freeBSD. This
system is attached to CISCO as a leaf site using the NLA address from CISCO
since February 1997. We have participated in most of 6Bone proceeding from
initial phases. 6Bone-KR intends to deploy a large base of IPv6 networks in
major Korean universities and research institutes. 

ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), a government
sponsored research institute, has played an important role in development
and deployment of advanced technologies in Korea. As a NOC of 6Bone-KR, we
have IPv6-tunneling, routing experiences using SSU as a NLA transit node
with several universities in Korea(SSU, Chungnam National University,
KAIST, Hanyang University, etc.).

2. Must have the ability and intent to provide "production-like" 6bone
backbone service to provide a robust and operationally reliable 6bone
backbone.

6Bone-KR is the Korea research network providing IPv6 interconnection
services to the Academic and Research community in Korea. It provides IPv6
connection using Tunneling and will provide high-speed( up to 150Mbps) ATM
interconnection service using AISN(Advanced Information Superhighway
Network), Korea ATM backbone network.

Seoul and R&D park at Daejeon are initial nodes' sites and other major
cities will be connected using AISN. The main router(Cisco and PC-platform)
is located in the ETRI(NOC of 6Bone-KR) at Daejeon. This project including
related
technolgies development was launched by government with a budget of
$1,000,000 for 3 years.

6Bone-KR is also a member of APAN(Asia Pacific Advanced Network) as a
representative of Korea for APAN IPv6 network construction.

3. Must have a potential "user community" that would be served by becomming
a pTLA, e.g., the requester is a major player in a region, country or focus
of interest.

6Bone-KR interconnects the academic and research community of Korea and
currently 6 institutes and universities, more than 200 students and
researchers are served. After receiving a pTLA, all members of AISN (more
than 30 institutes and
universities, more than 3,000 students and researchers) will be
interconnected using 6Bone for IPv6 services.

4. Must commit to abide by whatever the 6bone backbone operational rules
and policies are (currently there are no formal ones, but the Alain Durand
draft is a start in trying to defined some).

We, 6Bone-KR, will fully commit to the operational rules of IPv6 now and in
the future.

If you need any further clarification on any of the above questions, we'd
be more than happy to answer them. This email is also sent to:

Dr. Young-Han Kim, yhkim@dcn.soongsil.ac.kr (SSU NOC IPv6 contact)
Mr. Yong-Woon Kim, qkim@pec.etri.re.kr (ETRI NOC IPv6 contact)

Best Regards,
Myung-Ki Shin
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ETRI
Address : 161 Kajong-Dong, Yusong-Gu,
                 Daejeon, 305-350, KOREA
Tel : +82-42-860-4847
Fax : +82-42-861-5404
E-mail : mkshin@pec.etri.re.kr
WWW : http://pec.etri.re.kr

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