pTLA request for XS4ALL-NL (http://www.xs4all.nl) - review closes 2 October 2001

[Bob Fink]

6bone Folk,

XS4ALL-NL (http://www.xs4all.nl) has requested a pTLA allocation. The open 
review period for this will close 2 October 2001. Please send your comments 
to me or the list.


Thanks,

Bob

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>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:26:00 +0200
>From: Erik Bos <erik@xs4all.net>
>To: fink@es.net
>Cc: remcovz@xs4all.net
>Subject: 6bone pTLA request
>
>hi Bob,
>
>We would like to apply for a 6bone pTLA allocation, please let us know if
>you have any further questions.
>
>regards,
>
>Erik
>
>--
>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:
>
>       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: XS4ALL-NL exists in the 6bone registry. It currently has a
>contact 'XS42-RIPE' (a role) and two references to persons. We have
>requested a maintainer object MNT-XS4ALL from the registry and will use
>this to guard our objects in the future.
>
>       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.
>
>We are connected to the AMS-IX IPv6 shared medium and have been allocated
>the following address: 3ffe:3000::a500:3265:1
>
>We are natively connected to other dutch/european networks via this IPv6
>network and have no outgoing tunnels on which we do IPv6 (BGP) peering
>yet, due to us having a /48 from the INTOUCH-NL sTLA. We do, however
>maintain BGP4+ to INTOUCH-NL, NTT Europe, and RIPE-NCC.
>
>       c. Fully maintained DNS forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int)
>          entries for the Applicant's router(s) and at least one host
>          system.
>
>* We maintain a forward for ipv6.xs4all.nl in the xs4all.nl nameservers:
>xs4all.nl. name server ns.ripe.net.
>xs4all.nl. name server ns.xs4all.nl.
>xs4all.nl. name server ns2.xs4all.nl.
>
>* We have nameservers responding to IPv4 queries regarding the following
>zonefile: (2001:6e0:20a::/48)
>a.0.2.0.0.e.6.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int. name server ns.xs4all.nl.
>a.0.2.0.0.e.6.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.int. name server ns2.xs4all.nl.
>
>       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.
>
>We have a Cisco 3640 at the AMS-v6-IX, directing the /48 to our head quarters
>in Diemen, NL. We have a FreeBSD machine online which will host various
>low yield services such as an Apache/v6, Bind9 and a simple tunnelbroker for
>testing purposes.
>
>    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.
>
>Remco van Zuijlen <remcovz@xs4all.net>
>Erik Bos <erik@xs4all.net>
>And the XS42-RIPE role, which poses as our network admin contact.
>
>       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.
>
>This email address is the same as for IPv4 operational communication
><netmaster@xs4all.nl> and has will be put into all relevant objects.
>
>    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.
>
>XS4ALL was the first ISP in the Netherlands offering Internetaccess to the
>public since 1993, we offer DSL since 1999 and would like to offer IPv6
>connectivity and services to all DSL-customers. (we currently have about 30k
>DSL connections and expect to have about 60k DSL users by the end of this
>year)
>
>    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 plan to abide by these rules and policies.
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