Hello Christopher, This effort is a great and very interesting activity not only helping IPv6 testers to identify future issues of the next-gen protocol but to help everyone understand the advantages and disadvantages (if there is any that will exist) of it. In Asia Pacific College, Philippines, IPv6 is one of the promising topic in one of our networking subjects (under-graduate). Since it is new and not yet used ubiquitously unlike IPv4, we do try to get some resources over the web, understand its concepts, its unicast address features, etc. After several discussions the students are encourage to build an IPv6 network, it is still runs with the legacy protocol though.
In our case, I am not sure if there is any local-ISP that possesses IPv6 address space already. As soon as your research become successful, please let us know so we can also work on it locally. This will not only benefit local ISP's, network engineers/administrators but some students who would like to learn more on IPv6 implementation, the real-world setup. Thanks, -S > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:03:49 +1100 > To: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: IPv6 Research/Not-for-profit Addressing > > I am heading up a project to construct a community wireless network > covering > all areas of Australia that wish to participate, and we have reached the > conclusion that any effort spent creating a universally routable network > based on IPv4 is a doomed strategy. > > The project is being supported by the Australian Wireless Association > (www.australianwireless.org), a not-for-profit member based organisation. > At > this stage we have arranged agreements with two Australian ISPs to allow > us > to interconnect with their IPv6 networks, one of which is 6bone > connected. > We are very happy with this situation, and have secured the access > without > any costs. We have also secured hardware to run as a border router to be > co-located in the ISP's facilities. > > The next step is for us to acquire address space and an AS number so we > can > use the interconnection, however this is where we have hit issues. Our > local > IP addressing registrar, APNIC, is a purely commercial organisation and > has > no interest in assisting us, refusing to even let us plead our case. Our > membership fees can cover the AU$1000 they charge for an AS number, but > the > AU$5000 per year membership fee required to get any sort of addressing is > more than we can afford. The pricing structure of APNIC assumes you want > IPv4 addressing, which we do not, and they have no options for IPv6 only. > Given the vast unplumbed depths of IPv6 available this seems a little > unfair. > > Is there address space made available for research purposes, or is there > space set aside for not-for-profit use? Is there a registrar set up for > research networks? We feel that we have something to offer the IPv6 > community, by both providing users a broadband path directly to 6bone, > rather than through long distance tunnels, and as we plan to implement > many > links as purely IPv6 it provides a potential demonstration of the next > generation of networks. It also will reveal any issues with IPv6 over > wireless. > > The network will provide a fixed cost connectivity option for people who > may > not be able to afford the costs of regular broadband internet access. It > also has a strong following amongst the enthusiast community, and > provides a > genuine opportunity to test IPv6 in the wild in a large network with > potentially thousands of users. It will be a best effort system; with > efforts made to build a meshed structure to provide redundancy as we > expect > the wireless links to fail regularly (wireless is an inherently less > stable > technology when compared to traditional wired networks). > > I hope someone in the IPv6 community has a suggestion or can help us. > > Chris Martin > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
