EURONET-BE 6bone pTLA request - closes 17 Nov

[Bob Fink]

EURONET-BE has requested a pTLA. The closing date for the comment period 
will be 17 November due to my travel schedule.  PLease send comments to me 
or the list.


Thanks,

Bob

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>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:30:25 +0100 (MET)
>From: Francois Baligant <francois@be.wanadoo.com>
>X-Sender:  <francois@caolila>
>To: <fink@es.net>
>Subject: pTLA request for EURONET-BE
>
>
>         Hi, here is Francois Baligant from Wanadoo/Euronet Belgium.
>
>         We would like to request a test pTLA on the 6bone.
>
>         Here is how we comply to draft-ietf-ngtrans-harden-04
>
> >  1.  The pTLA Applicant must have a minimum of three (3) months
> >      qualifying experience as a 6Bone end-site or pNLA transit.
> >      During the entire qualifying period the Applicant must be
> >      operationally providing the following:
>
>         We have sub-TLA 3ffe:2501:200::/48 since July 1999 from
>         NLNET and 3FFE:80C0:221::/48 from Stealth USA.
>
> >     a. Fully maintained, up to date, 6Bone Registry entries for their
> >         ipv6-site inet6num, mntner, and person objects, including each
> >         tunnel that the Applicant has.
>
>         see EURONET-BE object
>
> >      b. Fully maintained, and reliable, BGP4+ peering and connectivity
> >         between the Applicant's boundary router and the appropriate
> >         connection point into the 6Bone. This router must be IPv6
> >         pingable. This criteria is judged by members of the 6Bone
> >         Operations Group at the time of the Applicant's pTLA request.
>
>         Our router (cisco 4500 running IPv6 IOS) is m6.ipv6.euronet.be.
>         (3ffe:2501:200:1fff::1)
>
>tunnel:       NLNET STATIC
>tunnel:       BELNET-BE BGP4+
>tunnel:       STEALTH BGP4+
>tunnel:       AMS-IX-INTOUCH BGP4+
>tunnel:       DE-TRMD-20000317 BGP4+
>tunnel:       TVD BGP4+
>
>         We requested several times from NLNET to start using BGP on our
>         tunnel to BGP4 without success. It looks they are too busy
>         renumbering for some time now. However our tunnel to
>         Stealth for 3FFE:80C0:221::/48 use BGP4+
>
> >      c. Fully maintained DNS forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int)
> >         entries for the Applicant's router(s) and at least one host
> >         system.
>
>         We have 2 IPv6 zone (ipv6.euronet.be and ipv6.wanadoo.be)
>         will A/AAAA records for all our IPv6 capable devices.
>
>m6.ipv6.euronet.be      canonical name = gate.ipv6.euronet.be
>gate.ipv6.euronet.be    IPv6 address = 3ffe:2501:200:1fff::1
>
>www.ipv6.euronet.be     IPv6 address = 3ffe:2501:200:2::2
>ircnet.wanadoo.be       IPv6 address = 3ffe:2501:200:1fff::16
>
> >      d. A fully maintained, and reliable, IPv6-accessible system
> >         providing, at a mimimum, one or more web pages, describing the
> >         Applicant's IPv6 services.  This server must be IPv6 pingable.
>
>         Since August 1999, we run the popular and well-linked
>         around the world http://www.ipv6.euronet.be (IPv4+IPv6
>         accessible) with configuration information, some MRTG,
>         complete ping/traceroute/BGP4+ looking-glass, IRC6
>         information.
>
>         And since September 2000 we also runs ircnet.wanadoo.be
>         an IPv4 and IPv6 capable IRC server linked to IRCnet
>         accepting clients from the 6bone.
>
>         Also, email @ipv6.euronet.be are handled by an IPv6 capable
>         sendmail. ftp.ipv6.euronet.be is available too.
>
> >  2.  The pTLA Applicant MUST have the ability and intent to provide
> >      "production-quality" 6Bone backbone service. Applicants must
> >      provide a statement and information in support of this claim.
> >      This MUST include the following:
>
> >      a. A support staff of two persons minimum, three preferable, with
> >         person attributes registered for each in the ipv6-site object
> >         for the pTLA applicant.
>
>         Francois Baligant (FB1-6BONE)
>         Xavier Mertens (XM1-6BONE)
>
> >      b. A common mailbox for support contact purposes that all support
> >         staff have acess to, pointed to with a notify attribute in the
> >         ipv6-site object for the pTLA Applicant.
>
>remarks:      For tunnel/peering requests, contact 
><ipv6-operator@ipv6.euronet.be>
>notify:       6bone-notify@euronet.be
>
> >  3.  The pTLA Applicant MUST have a potential "user community" that
> >      would be served by its becoming a pTLA, e.g., the Applicant is a
> >      major provider of Internet service in a region, country, or
> >      focus of interest. Applicant must provide a statement and
> >      information in support this claim.
>
>EuroNet Internet (100% part of the France Telecom Group) is a major ISP on
>the Belgian market. We provide Internet services to customers (private,
>soho and business) through a whole services offer (dialup, leased line,
>cable, ADSL, housing, hosting, consultancy). We develop the Wanadoo
>product line on the Belgian market via connectivity services and a portal
>(www.wanadoo.be).
>
>It is our intent to help our customers (from any kind) migrate to
>IPv6 using:
>
>         - dedicated IPv6 NAS for PPP6 (dialup, already up & running)
>         - tunnel from our IPv6 core router to customers sites
>         (several already established)
>         - Tunnel Broker for dynamic IP customers
>         (almost done, waiting for pTLA to put in production)
>
> >  4.  The pTLA Applicant MUST commit to abide by the current 6Bone
> >      operational rules and policies as they exist at time of its
> >      application, and agree to abide by future 6Bone backbone
> >      operational rules and policies as they evolve by consensus of the
> >      6Bone backbone and user community.
>
>         We commit to abide to the current and futre 6Bone operational
>         rules and policies.
>
>         Feel free to contact me if you feel something is missing.
>
>         regards,
>         Francois
>
>Francois Baligant            * *       Wanadoo Belgium NV/SA
>Network Operation Center   *     *     a subsidiary of France Telecom
>                           *            Lozenberg 22 - B-1932 Zaventem
>FB1-6BONE                *             tel: +32 2 717 17 17
>francois@be.wanadoo.com                fax: +32 2 717 17 77