[6bone] pTLA request EUROVIEW-GROUP - review closes 8 October 2002

Bob Fink fink@es.net
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:22:57 -0700


6bone Folk,

EUROVIEW-GROUP has requested a pTLA allocation and I find their request 
fully compliant with RFC2772. The open review period for this will close 8 
October 2002. Please send your comments to me or the list.

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

<http://www.v6.euroview-group.com>

Note that the ASN that EUROVIEW-GROUP uses, AS15450, is owned by Alhambra 
Systems (ALHSYS), which is part of this collaboration.


Thanks,

Bob

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>Subject: RV: EUROVIEW-GROUP pTLA request
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:32:12 +0200
>From: "Javier Castillo Alcibar" <javier.castillo@euroview-spain.com>
>To: <fink@es.net>
>Cc: "Javier Castillo Alcibar" <javier.castillo@euroview-spain.com>
>         , Juan José Muñoz Martinez <juanj.munoz@euroview-spain.com>
>
>Hello Bob,
>
>          I send you this email for request you a pTLA for the
>  EUROVIEW-GROUP (www.v6.euroview-group.com).  Euroview group is a group of
>  different IT companies in Spain, France and Italy. We are very interested
>  in ipv6, and the first step is to start building a new ipv6 network for
>  test ipv6 software, solutions for our customers, etc....
>
>          If we need something, please tell me. This is the requested form:
>
>
>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:
>
>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.
>
>          MNT-EUROVIEW-GROUP
>          EUROVIEW-GROUP
>
>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.
>
>obsdv6> sh ipv6 bgp summary
>
>BGP router identifier 194.69.248.62, local AS number 46016
>389 BGP AS-PATH entries
>0 BGP community entries
>
>
>Neighbor        V    AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ
>Up/Down  State/PfxRcd
>3ffe:8260:2010:fffe::1
>
>                  4 45328   16747   12633        0    0    0 2d11h02m      258
>
>3ffe:8260:2010:ffff::1
>
>                  4 45329   10687   10013        0    0    0 02:26:07      258
>
>Total number of neighbors 2
>
>
>c. Fully maintained DNS forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int)
>entries for the Applicant's router(s) and at least one host
>system.
>
>          deb1.v6.euroview-group.com
>          obsdv6.v6.euroview-group.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.
>
>         Router:  obsdv6.v6.euroview-group.com
>
>         web server:  www.v6.euroview-group.com
>
>         host pingable: deb1.v6.euroview-spain.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.
>
>          Javier Castillo (me): JCA1-6BONE
>
>          Juan Jose Muñoz: JJMM1-6BONE
>
>
>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.
>
>          ipv6@alhsys.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.
>
>
>          Euroview-Group is a group of different IT comanies, so these
>  companies and their clients are the first potential customers.....
>
>I can give a more detailed explanation of Euroview-Spain activities. 
>Euro-view Spain is an ISP and data/voice comunications integration company:
>
>  - As ISP we provide internet connection to medium sized comanies to 
> Internet, and other internet based solutions such vpn's, extranets, etc. 
> A base of small home users exists today but is reducing cause the spread 
> of low cost xDSL technologies of big ISP providers.
>
>  - As Datacomunications we are specialized in providing Lan/wan 
> connctivity between companies. We also work with carriers and operator to 
> provide IPv4 and other networking protocol services that they not 
> provided to their final customers in a overall project.
>
>  - We are involved in data-voice convegence and CT and Call Center 
> apllications.
>
>Our first plans is to provide an ipv6 enabled network connected to the 
>backbone, and connecto to it our customers to divulgate and test ipv6 and 
>prepare them for migration strategies of their networks.
>
>At same time we want to spread the ipv6 protocols in the Eurovie-group 
>companies: ASP providers, SBC integrators, to give each other feed-back of 
>how ipv6 can influenciate future applications and business.
>
>
>We want a 6bone prefix, and not a ripe prefix,
>  because we want to test deeply the IPv6 protocol,and the
>  6bone seems to be a more test network than ripe's
>  networks. In a future, if IPv6 becomes the production IP protocol in 
> internet, we will
>pick up a RIPE ipv6 address space, but until that moment arrives, we would 
>like to test
>with some of our best customers, the IPv6 world.
>
>
>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.
>
>
>Additional questions (from Bob):
>
>1. Your acknowledgement that you are not charging for services using the
>6bone prefix,
>
>Of course.
>
>
>2. Your acknowledgement that will give up your prefix when required by the
>sponsoring organization of the 6bone, or its descendents (currently the IETF),
>
>No problem. Yes, we know that 6bone is test network, and we
>  will remark this point to our customers.
>
>
>3. Your explanation of why you need a 6bone prefix instead of getting a
>production prefix from the RIRs. Also, for my planning purposes, I would 
>appreciate it if you could tell me
>why you think the 6bone is necessary, as opposed to just having networks
>get production prefixes from the RIRs. If you wish, this answer will be
>held in confidence. As I said above, it is for my planning purposes.
>
>We want a 6bone prefix, and not a ripe prefix,
>  because we want to test deeply the IPv6 protocol,and the
>  6bone seems to be a more test network than ripe's
>  networks. In a future, if IPv6 becomes the production IP protocol in 
> internet, we will
>pick up a RIPE ipv6 address space, but until that moment arrives, we would 
>like to test
>with some of our best customers, the IPv6 world.
>
>
>             The main reason, I think, for the 6bone network is that
>  6bone is the perfect testbed solution for ipv6 deployment.
>  When we have ipv6 fully tested, we will get a ripe prefix,
>  and we will offer to our customers real ipv6 services. Until
>  that, we are going to test routers, servers, OSs, protocols,
>  getting more familiar with ipv6, experience with different
>  solutions, etc, etc...Another good point is, that medium size
>  companies(like euroview-group) have the same rights and
>  privilegies that big companies like worldcom, telefonica, etc.....
>
>
>If you find problems, please tell me.
>
>
>Best regards.
>
>Javier.

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