Fwd: Request for pTLA for NTT Software Labs.

[Bob Fink]

6bone list:

Tsutomu Nagaishi of NTT has requested a pTLA for NTT (see request form below).

I would like to respond to this request by the 28th of July, so please send me your comments on this request by closs of business on July 27.


Thanks,

Bob

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>Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:25:22 +0900
>To: RLFink@lbl.gov
>From: Nagaishi Tutomu <nagaishi@nttslb.slab.ntt.co.jp>
>Subject: Request for pTLA for NTT Software Labs.
>Cc: 6bone@isi.edu
>
>Dear Bob,
>
>
>I am writing to you because NTT Software Laboratories would like to become
>one of the 6bone backbone sites. Below I give a short outline of NTT and
>show how we meet the criteria for pTLA assignment in the Internet Draft
>[Alain Durand].
>
>I hope that after studying these responses, you will assign a pTLA to us.
>If you do, we will expand our 6bone connectivity service.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Tsutomu Nagaishi
>Researcher
>NTT Software Laboratories 
>
>
>***OUR ORGANIZATION***
>
>Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is the largest
>communication carrier in Japan. NTT's Software Laboratories handle research
>and development of networks and their application layer.
>
>Further information about NTT is available at http://www.ntt.co.jp/.
>
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>Evidence of meeting criteria
>
>>> 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 been experimenting with 6bone connectivity:
>  - leaf site (3FFE:0501:0412/48) under 6bone JP-pTLA since 1997.
>  - leaf site (3FFE:1200:3002/48) under DEC CA/US-pTLA since 1997.
>  - NLA network (3FFE:0503:/32) under 6bone JP-pTLA since December
>   1997.
>
>  We have assigned one address prefix for multiple sites below our NLA and
>are now providing transit service for 6bone connectivity.
>
>  We have already provided information about the NLA transit experiment
>(e.g., the registry of connection sites). The URL for this information is
>http://www.nttv6.net.
>
>>> 2. Must have the ability and intent to provide "production-like" 6bone
>>> backbone service to provide a robust and operationally reliable 6bone 
>>> backbone.
>
>  NTT already has an ISP business  division. Furthermore, in NTT  Software
>Laboratories we have been experimenting with 6bone connectivity. Therefore,
>NTT has the skills needed to provide a "production-like" 6bone backbone
>service.
>
>>> 3. Must have a potential "user community" that would be served by becoming
>>> a pTLA, e.g., the requester is a major player in a region, country or focus
>>> of interest.
>
>  NTT is a major player in Japan and therefore has a large potential user
>community.
>
>>> 4. Must commit to abide by whatever the 6bone backbone operational rules
>>> and policies are (currently there are no formal ones, but the Alain Duran
>>> draft is a start in trying to define some).
>
>  We will commit to abide by the 6bone backbone operational rules and
>policies.
>
>
>Reference
>
>[Alain Durand] Alain Durand, "6Bone Routing Practice", May 1998,
>              "Guidelines for 6Bone pTLA sites", p. 5-6.
>