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

Jeremy matrix@miracle1.net
Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:29:13 -0600


philip,
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe requesting an sTLA from APNIC would come at a substantial cost to NECTEC just
for testing.. upwards of 10,000 if APNIC is anything like ARIN is...
Yes, it would, $2,500 - $5,000 according to the APNIC fee schedule <http://www.apnic.net/member/feesinfo.html> per
year.
Thanks,
Jeremy
VLINK Internet Systems, US
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:44:01AM +1000, Philip Smith wrote:
> 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 being that it is real, not experimental, and is unlikely to be withdrawn 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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