pTLA request for HURRICANE (he.net) - review closes 23 Apr 2001

[Bob Fink]

6bone Folk,

HURRICANE (he.net) has requested a pTLA allocation. The open review period 
for this will close 23 Apr 2001. Please send your comments to me or the list.


Thanks,

Bob

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>Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 17:33:34 -0700 (PDT)
>From: samh <samh@he.net>
>To: fink@es.net
>Subject: pTLA Request
>
>Sir,
>Please find our request for a pTLA below.
>
>Thank you for your time,
>Sam Hazel
>
>***----------***------<<HURRICANE ELECTRIC>>-----***----------***
>Sam Hazel                         Web Hosting
>Network Engineer                  Colocated and Dedicated Servers
>samh@he.net                       www.he.net
>                                   510.580.4100
>***-----------------------------------------------------------***
>
>
>
>============================================================================
>
>    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:
>
>       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.
>
>ipv6-site: HURRICANE
>
>       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 BGP4+ session with DIGITAL is reliable on the router rtr1.ipv6.he.net
>
>
>       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 fully maintained DNS records on ns1.ipv6.he.net and 
>ns2.ipv6.he.net for
>all our IPv6 machines as well as our tunnels.  A host system you can check 
>this
>against is ipv6.he.net.
>
>       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.
>
>Please see the server ipv6.he.net
>
>    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.
>
>Gary Shaver and Sam Hazel
>
>       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.
>
>noc@he.net
>
>    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.
>
>We are a tier 1 ISP with a nationwide US network serving a vibrant 
>community of
>developers and hosts.   We currently have a tunnel broker
>(http://ipv6tb.he.net) with 50+ tunnels and growing and an active IPv6
>development staff with a vested interest in seeing IPv6 grow.
>
>
>    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 agree to abide by the current 6Bone operational rules and policies, and
>future operational rules/policies.
>
>    When an Applicant seeks to receive a pTLA allocation, it will apply
>    to the 6Bone Operations Group (see section 8 below) by providing to
>    the Group information in support of its claims that it meets the
>    criteria above.
>
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