[6bone] pTLA request NDSOFTWARE - review closes 23 October 2002

[Bob Fink]

6bone Folk,

NDSOFTWARE has requested a pTLA allocation and I find their request fully 
compliant with RFC2772. The open review period for this will close 23 
October 2002. Please send your comments to me or the list.

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

<http://noc.ndsoftwarenet.com/>


Thanks,

Bob

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>Hello,
>
>On behalf of NDSoftware, I would like to submit our application for a
>pTLA.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Nicolas DEFFAYET
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> From RFC 2772
>
>
>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:
>
>Our ipv6-site is operational since 17 january 2001 on 6bone.
>
>        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.
>
>http://whois.6bone.net/cgi-bin/whois?NDSOFTWARE
>
>
>       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 have currently 101 BGP4+ sessions.
>
>Our ASN is AS25358:
>aut-num:      AS25358
>as-name:      NDSOFTWARE-AS
>descr:        NDSoftware IP Network
>
>We use 2 routers:
>  - parcr1.fr.ndsoftwarenet.net
>  - parcr2.fr.ndsoftwarenet.net
>Looking Glass: http://noc.ndsoftwarenet.com/lg/
>
>
>       c. Fully maintained DNS forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int)
>           entries for the Applicant's router(s) and at least one host
>           system.
>
>We have 3 nameservers:
>  - ns1.ndsoftwarenet.com
>  - ns2.ndsoftwarenet.com
>  - ns3.ndsoftwarenet.com
>
>       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.
>
>http://noc.ndsoftwarenet.com/
>
>    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.
>
>NDN1-6BONE
>CB2-6BONE
>BN3-6BONE
>MM14-6BONE
>MC7-6BONE
>
>       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.
>
>ipmaster@ndsoftwarenet.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.
>
>NDSoftware operates an IPv6 network and provide a lot of IPv6 services
>to many projects.
>
>We provide to:
>
>IPv6-FR (a non profit organisation for the developement of IPv6 in France
>   200 users, each user have a /48.
>
>NexGenCollective (http://www.nexgencollective.net/)
>   150 users, each user have a /48.
>
>ATI (A tunisian ISP, http://www.ipv6net.tn/)
>
>and a lot of others (see our whois), this services: IPv6 connectivity
>(STATIC or BGP with a IPv6 block), IPv6 newsfeeds/newsread,...
>
>We do many actions in IPv6 research, we created FNIX6 (French
>International Internet Exchange IPv6, http://www.fnix6.net/), we host many 
>mirrors
>available in IPv6, we created ftp://ftp.openipv6.com/ (a FTP with a lot
>of IPv6 stuff).
>
>    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 agree to all current and future rules and policies.
>
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