[6bone] pTLA request by NECTEC-TH - review closes 10 March 2003

Bill Manning bmanning@ISI.EDU
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:58:57 -0800 (PST)


	one reason is that is is much easier to delineate experimental
	activities from things that may be more persistant.

% I'm generally curious why organisations which are members of the various 
% RIRs are still coming to request 6BONE address space. Global IPv6 address 
% space is global IPv6 address space, whether it comes from the 6bone, or in 
% this case, from APNIC, so I'm wondering why NECTEC feel that it is 
% necessary to comply with the 6bone rules rather than simply requesting 
% their IPv6 address block from APNIC under their existing APNIC membership. 
% Both address spaces will work on a testbed, the benefit of the RIR space 
% being that it is real, not experimental, and is unlikely to be withdrawn 
% when the 6bone experiment finishes in the future.
% 
% philip
% --
% 
% At 09:27 24/02/2003 -0800, Bob Fink wrote:
% >6bone Folk,
% >
% >NECTEC-TH has requested a pTLA allocation and I find their request fully 
% >compliant with RFC2772. The open review period for this will close 22 
% >January 2003. Please send your comments to me or the list.
% >
% ><<http://www.ipv6.nectec.or.th>http://www.ipv6.nectec.or.<http://www.ipv6.nectec.or.th>th>
% >
% >
% >Thanks,
% >
% >Bob
% >
% >===
% >>From: "NECTEC-IPv6" <ipv6@nectec.or.th>
% >>To: <bob@thefinks.com>
% >>Subject: pTLA request
% >>Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:33:40 +0700
% >>
% >>Dear Mr. Bob Fink,
% >>
% >>This letter is being written on behalf of
% >>   Thailand's IPv6 Testbed Project ,
% >>   Thai Social/Sciencetific Academic and Research Network ,
% >>   National Electronics and Computer Technology Center of Thailand
% >>
% >>to request pTLA allocation. Being qualified with RFC2772, please
% >>find details 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:
% >>
% >>=>      Our testbed's connected to 6bone and launched since 9 August 2002.
% >>
% >>       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?NECTEC-TH>http://whois.6bone.net/cgi-bin/whois?NECTEC-TH
% >>
% >>       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.
% >>
% >>=> BGP4+ peering with regional and domestic 6bone's backbone
% >>sites : INET-TH, CERNET-CN, NBEN-TW, MIMOS-MY
% >>
% >> >sh bgp ipv6 sum
% >>Neighbor        V    AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ Up/Down
% >>State/PfxRcd
% >>3FFE:3200:1:1A::1
% >>                 4  4538   12902   27646    19481    0    0 1d08h          16
% >>3FFE:3600:2000:888::3640:7
% >>                 4  9681   29337   26177    19481    0    0 1d07h         236
% >>3FFE:400B:400B::8
% >>                 4  4618   21510   23789    19481    0    0 1w0d          415
% >>3FFE:80D0:FFFC:10::42
% >>                 4  2042   39314   17080    19481    0    0 1d19h         287
% >>
% >>=> Router, ep.ipv6.nectec.or.th, IPv6 pingable.
% >>PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 3ffe:8140:101:7::1 --> 3ffe:400b:400b::9
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:400b::9, icmp_seq=0 hlim=58 time=783.453 ms
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:400b::9, icmp_seq=1 hlim=58 time=817.015 ms
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:400b::9, icmp_seq=2 hlim=58 time=1435.44 ms
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:400b::9, icmp_seq=3 hlim=58 time=838.53 ms
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:400b::9, icmp_seq=4 hlim=58 time=1074.85 ms
% >>
% >>--- ep.ipv6.nectec.or.th ping6 statistics ---
% >>5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
% >>round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 783.453/989.858/1435.441/245.416 ms
% >>
% >>       c. Fully maintained DNS forward (AAAA) and reverse (ip6.int)
% >>          entries for the Applicant's router(s) and at least one host
% >>          system.
% >>
% >>=> The current DNS server is  leo.ipv6.nectec.or.th maintaining both forward
% >>and reverse entries for ep.ipv6.nectec.or.th (router) and 
% >><http://www.ipv6.nectec.or.th>www.ipv6.nectec.or.th
% >>
% >>$ORIGIN ipv6.nectec.or.th.
% >>@                       1D IN SOA       leo root.leo (
% >>                                         2002101001      ; serial
% >>                                         8H              ; refresh
% >>                                         2H              ; retry
% >>                                         1W              ; expiry
% >>                                         1D )            ; minimum
% >>
% >>                         1D IN NS        leo
% >>
% >>ep                      1D IN AAAA      3ffe:400b:400b::9
% >>                         1D IN A         203.185.132.158
% >>www                     1D IN CNAME     leo
% >>leo                     1D IN AAAA      3ffe:400b:6003::9
% >>                         1D IN A         203.185.132.132
% >>
% >>=> Reverse DNS Delegation :
% >>$ dig -t any 3.0.0.6.b.0.0.4.e.f.f.3.ip6.int @rns1.v6.inet.co.th
% >>
% >>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -t 3.0.0.6.b.0.0.4.e.f.f.3.ip6.int @rns1.v6.inet.co.th
% >>; (1 server found)
% >>;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
% >>;; got answer:
% >>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
% >>;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
% >>;; QUERY SECTION:
% >>;;      3.0.0.6.b.0.0.4.e.f.f.3.ip6.int, type = ANY, class = IN
% >>
% >>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
% >>3.0.0.6.b.0.0.4.e.f.f.3.ip6.int.  12H IN NS  leo.ipv6.nectec.or.th.
% >>
% >>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
% >>leo.ipv6.nectec.or.th.  4h32m34s IN A   203.185.132.132
% >>
% >>;; Total query time: 51 msec
% >>;; FROM: leo.ipv6.nectec.or.th to SERVER: rns1.v6.inet.co.th  203.150.14.111
% >>;; WHEN: Fri Jan 31 11:26:55 2003
% >>;; MSG SIZE  sent: 49  rcvd: 100
% >>
% >>       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://www.ipv6.nectec.or.th>http://www.ipv6.nectec.or.th --v4/v6 
% >>accessible
% >>
% >>=> The result of ping6 <http://www.ipv6.nectec.or.th>www.ipv6.nectec.or.th
% >>PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 3ffe:8140:101:7::1 --> 3ffe:400b:6003::9
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:6003::9, icmp_seq=0 hlim=57 time=679.311 ms
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:6003::9, icmp_seq=1 hlim=57 time=1159.21 ms
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:6003::9, icmp_seq=2 hlim=57 time=655.809 ms
% >>16 bytes from 3ffe:400b:6003::9, icmp_seq=3 hlim=57 time=876.863 ms
% >>
% >>    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.
% >>
% >>=> TB6-6BONE,
% >>      CC8-6BONE,
% >>      PT4-6BONE
% >>
% >>       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.
% >>
% >>=> <mailto:ipv6@nectec.or.th>ipv6@nectec.or.th
% >>
% >>    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.
% >>
% >>=> The Thailand's IPv6 Testbed project was formally established in October
% >>2001, under the management of Thai Social/Science Academic and Research
% >>  Network (ThaiSARN-3) project 
% >> (<http://www.thaisarn.net.th>http://www.thaisarn.net.th),
% >>  National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
% >>(<http://www.nectec.or.th>http://www.nectec.or.th).
% >>With a mission to promote the next generation Internet in the country,
% >>this project is proposed in order to establish national IPv6 gateway and
% >>provide IPv6 testing services to support research and experimentally
% >>operational activities towards development of IPv6-related technologies
% >>and IPv6-ready networks for all Thai public.
% >>
% >>    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 commit to abide by present and future operational rules and policies
% >>      of 6Bone backbone and user community.
% >>
% >>    When an Applicant seeks to receive a pTLA allocation, it will apply
% >>    to the 6Bone Operations Group (see section 8 below) by providing to
% >>    the Group information in support of its claims that it meets the
% >>    criteria above.
% >>
% >>===================
% >>
% >>Thank you
% >>Thailand's IPv6 Testbed
% >
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