pTLA request for Cable & Wireless Europe - ISDNET

[Bob Fink]

6bone Folk,

ISDNET (Cable & Wireless Europe) has requested a pTLA allocation. The open 
review period for this will close 26 March 2001. Please send any comments 
to me or the list.


Thanks,

Bob

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>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 13:39:29 +0100
>From: Antoine Versini <aversini@isdnet.net>
>Reply-To: aversini@isdnet.net
>Organization: Cable & Wireless Europe
>To: fink@es.net, ipv6@ipv6.isdnet.net
>Subject: Cable & Wirless isdnet is asking for a pTLA
>
>Dear Sir,
>
>My name is Antoine Versini and I am working for the european subsidiary
>of the Cable & Wireless group. Since January 1999, we have been
>operating an ipv6-site, known as ISDNET in the 6bone registry. This
>experimentation now reaches the point where we need to become an
>official pTLA on the 6bone to continue it. That is the object of this
>mail: a pTLA request from Cable & Wireless isdnet.
>
>Here is how we comply with the guidelines defined in chapter 7 of the
>RFC 2772.
>
>
>1. Cable & Wirless isdnet (ISDNET in the registry) operates on the 6bone
>for more than 3 mounths. We are present since January 1999, when we
>obtained a tunnel from the NRL (now DEFENSENET) and the original
>ipv6-site objet was created.
>
>1a. The registry has the following records:
>     - An ipv6-site object (ISDNET) with three contacts, our tunnels and
>available applications,
>     - person objects for each contact plus a role object gathering all
>of the contact under a single mailbox,
>     - inet6num objects for each of the prefixes that have been allocated
>to ISDNET,
>     - a password-protected maintainer object that maintains all of the
>above objects.
>     http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/6Bone/Whois/ISDNET.html shows no
>errors. All of our peers have reverse records to us.
>
>1b. We maintain BGP4+ sessions with our peers under the AS5594 origin.
>The core router is a Cisco System device running the last IPv6 beta
>version of the IOS. We are not readvertising what we learn from our peer
>in order not the break the RFC 2772 rules, thus 6bone default free zone
>aggregation. Our network do not have default IPv6 route.
>     IPv4 Loopback: 6bone.isdnet.net (195.154.1.6)
>     IPv6 Loopback: lo0.6bone-mtp-1.ipv6.isdnet.net (3ffe:8100:102::1)
>
>1c. All devices and their IPv6 enabled interfaces have an AAAA entry in
>the ipv6.isdnet.net zone and a PTR entry in the pTLA-delegated prefixes
>delegated-reverse zones.
>
>1d. We maintain an IPv6-only accessible web site at
>http://www.ipv6.isdnet.net/ where we provide network tools web interface
>(ping6 and traceroute6) and a looking-glass with BGP4+ queries facility
>and a full BGP4+ status crated using the AS-Path-Three tool from the
>CSELT. This web site is also IPv6 pingable.
>
>2. Cable & Wireless isdnet has built an international IP dedicated
>backbone in the past two years. Our STM-16/OC-48 european loop has
>connections to the following IX :
>    - PARIX, SFINX and MAE-P (paris),
>    - DE-CIX and MAE-FFT (Frankfurt),
>    - BNIX (Brussels),
>    - CIXP (Geneva),
>    - LINX (London),
>    - AMSIX (Amsterdam).
>    We also have POPs in Italy, Spain and Sweden. We run a total of more
>than 200 peerings and we do have peerings with most of the european
>pTLAs. We also have the opportunity to install IPv6 dedicated peering
>routers in IPv6 IXes like AMS-IX or the BNIX6. Our MPLS network would
>eventualy  natively transport IPv6 over dedicated Label Switched Pathes
>beetween IPv6 IXes.
>    Lastly, we also run a trans-atlantic network with more than 850Mbps
>of aggregated bandwidth (DS3s and STM-1/OC-3s circuits and one
>STM-4/OC-12 circuit). This trans-oceanic loop connects us to other big
>backbones in the World (UUnet, Abovenet, Level3, Sprint...) and to
>peering points like MAE-EAST.
>
>2a. Our IPv6 team is constitued by three persons,
>2b. all of them are reachable using a single mailbox:
>ipv6@ipv6.isdnet.net.
>
>3. Cable & Wireless is providing wholesale dial-up and broadband
>services to the most important french ISPs and to european ISPs. All of
>those ISPs are customers of us either for our access network (Remote
>Access Servers and Broadband Access Servers in more than 50 points of
>presence) or for IP transit to the Internet. We also have interactions
>with transit customers ISPs that would eventually provide free IPv6
>access to the 6bone if we have the opportunity to become a pTLA. We also
>operate hosting datacenters in Europe where 6bone access can be given
>through their hosting LANs.
>
>4. Our team is very IPv6 enthousiast and we believe in the future of the
>IPv6 protocol-suite. We totaly abide with all the rules and policies
>established by the 6bone Operation Group, and even hope to be an active
>part of it.
>
>The last point I wanted to say is that our team has a total control of
>all the servers (Xavier and Emile) and all the routers of the network
>(myself) as we are part of the designers of the unix platforms and of
>the IP backbone of Cable & Wireless europe.
>
>We really hope that our submission will interrest you :-)
>
>Thank you for your king attention,
>Best regards from France,
>Antoine.
>
>--
>Antoine Versini - aversini@isdnet.net / antoine.versini@cw.com
>Cable & Wireless Europe Global Network Operations: Network Build
>Cable & Wireless France: Backbone deployement project manager