pTLA request for BITS (www.bits-pilani.ac.in) - review closes 27 Apr 2001

[Bob Fink]

6bone Folk,

BITS (www.bits-pilani.ac.in) has requested a pTLA allocation. The open 
review period for this will close 27 Apr 2001. Please send your comments to 
me or the list.

Please note that athough BITS, Pilani is not an ISP in India, as a leading 
technological academic institution they wish to strongly lead and promote 
early IPv6 deployment there by providing tunneling services. Their response 
to me on this issue was:

"BITS, Pilani intends to serve the entire research / academic / technical 
community on a non-profit basis and would therefore be happy to offer the 
IPv6-specific non-profit services to any eligible seeker. In this sense, we 
would definitely function as a non-profit provider of services and not 
merely as an end site.   In fact, one of our major objectives has been to 
provide benefits of our own Research and Development experience to the said 
user community as well as work as a conduit to increase IPv6-awareness in 
the entire sub-continent so as to pave the way for a smooth transition to 
the IPv6-based internetworking. "

If you disagree with this pTLA usage, please send your comments to the 
6bone list for open discussion.


Thanks,

Bob

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>From: "Rahul Banerjee" <rahul@bits-pilani.ac.in>
>To: <fink@es.net (Bob Fink)>
>Subject: Application for pTLA status
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:57:42 +0530
>
>Request for 6Bone pTLA status - from Project IPv6@BITS, BITS,Pilani, India.
>
>Dear Bob,
>
>We, at the Project IPv6@BITS hereby apply for a pTLA status.
>
>Here are the details showing exactly how  do we satisfy the conditions for 
>this purpose:
>
>
> >As per the relevant RFC:
>
>  The following rules apply to qualify for a 6Bone pTLA allocation. It
>  should be recognized that holders of 6Bone pTLA allocations are
>  expected to provide production quality backbone network services for
>  the 6Bone.
>
>  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 been connected to the 6bone since march 2000.
>
>      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.
>
>     The entry for our site IPv6-BITS-IN is correctly maintained. Full
>information can be obtained by querying the 6bone RIPE database with
>the string IPv6-BITS-IN.
>
>
>
>      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.
>
>     Currently we have:
>      tunnel: IPv6 in IPv4 202.54.26.126 -> rap.viagenie.qc.ca VIAGENIE BGP4+
>      tunnel: IPv6 in IPv4 202.54.26.126 -> gw2.nc.singaren.net.sg 
> NUS-IRDU BGP4+
>      tunnel: IPv6 in IPv4 202.54.26.126 -> 129.254.254.86 ETRI BGP4+
>      tunnel: IPv6 in IPv4 202.54.26.126 -> 202.38.99.1 CERNET STATIC
>
>      Router: ipv6.bits-pilani.ac.in
>                  IPv4 address: 202.54.26.126
>                   IPv6 address: 3ffe:b00:4002::1
>                                        2001:208:1:fd03::3
>
>      c. Fully maintained DNS forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int)
>         entries for the Applicant's router(s) and at least one host
>         system.
>
>
>Currently we have all these including the Forward and Reverse DNS Lookup.
>         Router: ipv6.bits-pilani.ac.in     3ffe:b00:4002::1
>                                         2001:208:1:fd03::3
>
>          Host:   v6host.bits-pilani.ac.in   3ffe:b00:4002::1
>                                         2001:208:1:fd03::4
>
>      d. A fully maintained, and reliable, IPv6-accessible system
>         providing, at a minimum, one or more web pages, describing the
>         Applicant's IPv6 services.  This server must be IPv6 pingable.
>
>     Our Website: 
> <http://ipv6.bits-pilani.ac.in>http://ipv6.bits-pilani.ac.in. This 
> website gives all the
>information on Project IPv6@BITS. This site is IPv6-accessible. This
>server is also IPv6 pingable.
>
>    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.
>
>We do have:
>:Rahul Banerjee (RB4-6Bone)
>:Aroon Natraj (AN2-6Bone)
>:Hareesh V H (HVH1-6Bone)
>:Padma V (PV4-6Bone)
>:Sivaramakrishnan N (SN2-6Bone)
>
>      b. A common mailbox for support contact purposes that all support
>         staff have access to, pointed to with a notify attribute in the
>         ipv6-site object for the pTLA Applicant.
>
>
>The common email is: 
><mailto:ipv6@bits-pilani.ac.in>ipv6@bits-pilani.ac.in. This mailbox is common
>to all the support staff mentioned above.
>
>    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 of this claim.
>
>
>BITS,Pilani is one of India's premier education and research institutes.
>Project IPv6@BITS is the first and only Indian site in the 6Bone now.
>Active IPv6-oriented internetworking research and development has been
>going on at a fast pace here since march 2000, when we connected to the 
>6bone.
>On being granted pTLA status, we will be able to provide 6bone
>connectivity to other research and educational organizations within India.
>
>    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 all current and future rules of the 6bone and agree to
>co-operate and actively participate in the development of the 6bone and IPv6.
>
>For any questions or comments, please feel free to email us at:
>
><mailto:ipv6@bits-pilani.ac.in>ipv6@bits-pilani.ac.in  or 
><mailto:rahul@bits-pilani.ac.in>rahul@bits-pilani.ac.in
>
>Warm regards.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Rahul
>********************************************************************************
>Prof. Rahul Banerjee
>Computer Science & Information Systems Group
>Coordinator: Centre for Software Development
>Assistant Dean: Distance Learning Programmes Division
>Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - 333 031 (India)
>
>Phone:  +91-1596-45073 Extn. 335
>E-mail: 
><mailto:rahul@bits-pilani.ac.in>rahul@bits-pilani.ac.in 
>
>Home Page: 
><http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/~rahul/>http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/~rahul/
>
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