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

[Roger Jorgensen]

FYI,

NDSOFTWARE only have 99 peers, both of their peers to us,
AS6830/chello/aorta) and AS8733/TVD are being shutdown shortly.

<quote from mail>
Due to conflicts with our internal use of private ASN we have decided to no 
longer
support private ASN peerings with external parties.
</quote>



At 06:25 AM 10/16/2002 -0700, Bob Fink wrote:
>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
>
>=====
>>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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Roger Jorgensen (rjorgensen@upctechnology.com)
System Engineer @ UPC Technology / IP engineering
handles: ROJO1-6BONE ROJO9-RIPE RJC10-NORID