pTLA request for CALADAN - review closes 30 April 2002

[Bob Fink]

6bone Folk,

CALADAN has requested a pTLA allocation and I find their request fully 
compliant with RFC2772. The open review period for this will close 30 April 
2002. Please send your comments to me or the list.

<http://whois.6bone.net/cgi-bin/whois?CALADAN>

<http://www.ipv6.kewlio.net/>


Thanks,

Bob

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>Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:44:06 +0100 (BST)
>From: "Daniel Austin (fxp0)" <fxp0@fxp0.co.uk>
>To: Bob Fink <fink@es.net>
>cc: <ipv6@kewlio.net>
>Subject: Re: 6bone pTLA request
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>Please find attached the new application as requested.
>
>*** 6BONE pTLA REQUEST ***
>
>    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 had our allocation from CALADAN for the past 3 months.
>
>       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.
>
> >>> Our current IPv6 allocation is from CALADAN (3ffe:8270:8::/48) which 
> is all upt-o-date in whois.
> >>> Our customer tunnels are also listed.
>
>       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 currently have 5 BGP4+ sessions configured via tunnels to 
> different providers.
> >>> Our router is router.ipv6.kewlio.net [3ffe:8270:8::1] and should be 
> active 24/7.
> >>> We currently handle all ASN details for Global Media Applications 
> Limited.
> >>> A seperate e-mail from the Technical Director has been sent to 
> fink@es.net allowing
> >>> us full use of AS24765 for 6bone purposes.
> >>> Global Media Applications Limited will be using IPv6 development 
> services from our
> >>> allocation(s).
>
>       c. Fully maintained DNS forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int)
>          entries for the Applicant's router(s) and at least one host
>          system.
>
> >>> Our nameservers currently provide forward and reverse DNS for:
> >>> 8.0.0.0.0.7.2.8.e.f.f.3.ip6.int
> >>> kewlio.net
> >>> These should be able to be queried from anywhere.
>
>       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.
>
> >>> Our (simple) IPv6 services page is http://www.ipv6.kewlio.net/
> >>> This is both IPv4 and IPv6 reachable.  This server is 
> ping/traceroute-able from the 6bone 24/7.
> >>> You can also reach our 4th nameserver (ns4.kewlio.net) via the 6bone.
>
>    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:
>
> >>> Although we are a relatively new company, we have every intention to 
> provide IPv6 services alongside our existing
> >>> IPv4 services.  We have been running as a sole-trader for the past 
> year, and business has increased significantly
> >>> during the past few months.  There is a lot of interest in the IPv6 
> support of our servers and services.
>
>       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.
>
> >>> DJA97-6BONE and TEI122-6BONE - both present in "KEWLIO" ipv6-site in 
> whois.
>
>       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.
>
> >>> ipv6@kewlio.net is our support/contact mailbox.  our ipv6-site object 
> points to this address.
> >>> We also have ipv6-tunnels@kewlio.net for tunnel requests
>
>    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 offer server colocation / rental, also virtual hosting and virtual 
> servers.  All services are able to use IPv6 if
> >>> the customer requests.  We actively inform potential customers of our 
> 6bone allocation and their ability to use it.
> >>> We generally supply services to businesses in the Manchester area, 
> although we currently have customers from England,
> >>> Germany and the United States.  We are open to all customers in all 
> regions.
> >>> Our new shell service has had a lot of feedback about IPv6 support, 
> and we have our existing CALADAN allocation in
> >>> action on our shell servers.
> >>> All customers are reminded that any 6bone IP's are for development 
> purposes and that, at
> >>> some point, we will be joining production-level IPv6 within 6-12 
> months time.
> >>> Customers are offerred IPv6 functionality at no extra cost.
>
>    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 have read these and are happy to abide by all policies.
>
>
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Daniel Austin,
>Managing Director,
>kewlio.net Limited.