pTLA request for MOTOROLA-LABS- review closes 12 April 2002

[Bob Fink]

6bone Folk,

MOTOROLA-LABS has requested a pTLA allocation and I find their request 
fully compliant with RFC2772. The open review period for this will close 29 
March 2002. Please send your comments to me or the list.

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

<http://www.ipv6.motlabs.com>


Note that this allocation will be a /32 per previous discussions on the list.


Thanks,

Bob

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>From: Silverton Aron-C1710C <Aron.J.Silverton@motorola.com>
>To: "'fink@es.net'" <fink@es.net>
>Cc: ESCHBACH JEFFREY-CJE018 <eschbach@motorola.com>
>Subject: pTLA request for MOTOROLA-LABS (AS19149)
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:03:28 -0600
>
>Bob,
>
>We would like to apply for a pTLA allocation from the 6Bone.
>We are Motorola Labs - Networks and Infrastructure Research.
>We are requesting one pTLA block.
>
>A summary of our conformance with RFC 2772 is below.
>
>
>7. Guidelines for 6Bone pTLA sites
>
>    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 on the 6Bone for one year as of this month via a
>       tunnel to Viagenie with prefix 3ffe:b00:4025::/48.
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>       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.
>
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>       All of our entries are complete and can be found at:
>       http://whois.6bone.net/cgi-bin/whois?MOTOROLA-LABS
>
>       inet6num: 3ffe:b00:4025::/48
>         ipv6-site:      MOTOROLA-LABS
>       mntner:   MNT-MOTOROLA-LABS
>         mnt-by: MNT-MOTOROLA-LABS
>         person: AJS2-6BONE
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>       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+ connections are provided by a Cisco 7505/RSP4 which is
>       IPv6 pingable at c7505.ipv6.motlabs.com
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>       c. Fully maintained DNS forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int)
>          entries for the Applicant's router(s) and at least one host
>          system.
>
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int) entries are maintained on
>       dns1.ipv6.motlabs.com and dns2.ipv6.motlabs.com.  These servers handle
>       the 0.0.0.0.5.2.0.4.0.0.b.0.e.f.f.3.IP6.INT reverse zone and
>       forward entries such as www.ipv6.motlabs.com at 3ffe:b00:4025::c.
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>       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.
>
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>       An IPv4/IPv6 web page is accessible at 6bone01.motlabs.com and
>       www.ipv6.motlabs.com and is 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.
>
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Our current support staff is:
>
>         Aron J. Silverton               (AJS2-6BONE)
>         Jeffery T. Eschbach     (JTE1-6BONE)
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>       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.
>
>         ------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Our common mailbox for 6BONE site issues and comments is
>       6bone@labs.mot.com
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    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.
>
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Our user community consists of researchers located at our facility
>       who utilize our IPv6 test bed network to conduct their work as well
>       as a large internal research community located throughout the US
>       and abroad to whom we will act as an IPv6 ISP.  In addition to
>       those internal communities, we may also provide these services to
>       others in the research community such as MREN (www.mren.org).
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>    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.
>
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Motorola Labs understands the 6Bone operational rules and we agree
>       with all of them as stated in RFC 2772.  We agree to abide by
>       those rules and policies now and as they evolve in the future.
>       ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Aron J. Silverton
>Senior Research Engineer
>Motorola Labs, Networks and Infrastructure Research
>Motorola, Inc.
>
>Telephone: 847-576-8747
>Fax: 847-576-3420
>Pager: 800-759-8888 PIN 1147344
>mailto: Aron.J.Silverton@motorola.com