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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Special Features:
NORTH AMERICAN IPv6 TASK FORCE
KICKS OFF NEXT PHASE OF Moonv6
The North American IPv6 Task Force, a sub-chapter of the IPv6 Forum
dedicated
to the advancement and propagation of IPv6 in the North American continent,
announced that the second phase of testing on Moonv6, the world's largest
multi-vendor IPv6 network, has begun. Moonv6 phase II will continue to provide
the North American market with strong validation for Internet Protocol version
6 (IPv6), through demonstrating IPv6's effectiveness under operative
conditions, and ultimately launch a native IPv6 backbone available for peering
from anywhere in the world.
Taking place across the United States at multiple locations, the Moonv6
project represents the most aggressive collaborative IPv6 interoperability and
application demonstration event in the North American market to date. The
Moonv6 project is a collaborative effort between the North American IPv6 Task
Force (NAv6TF), the University of New Hampshire -- InterOperability Laboratory
(UNH-IOL), Internet2, the Joint Interoperability Testing Command (JITC) and
various other U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agencies. Moonv6 phase I,
launched in October 2003, involved approximately 80 servers, switches and
routers from major networking companies and stretched from Durham, N.H., to
California.
The U.S. military has joined forces with major networking companies and
Internet service providers in launching this second phase of tests that will
focus on the backbone technology of the next-generation Internet protocol,
IPv6, and launch Moonv6 as a global IPv6 resource. Moonv6 phase II will assess
aspects of the IPv6 protocol key to widespread deployment of the new
technology, which is due to replace the Internet's current data transport
protocol, IPv4, over the next several years.
The testing, which began March 7 and runs through March 19, will cover
network
routing protocols, applications, security and transition mechanisms.
Verification of routing, application and security functionalities is important
because commercial deployment of IPv6 depends in part on confidence in the
technology's ability to run applications with a high degree of stability and
security over complex, distributed networks. Transition mechanisms will be key
during the migration from IPv4 to IPv6, during which the two protocol versions
will coexist.
Following the current series of tests, Moonv6 will remain in place as a
native
IPv6 backbone available for peering from anywhere in the world. It will serve
as an ongoing test bed for industry, universities, research labs, Internet
providers and the JITC along with the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and
other government agencies, to assist in the evolution of the next-generation
Internet protocol, IPv6, for full, wide-scale adoption and deployment
throughout North America.
Spokespeople from the NAv6TF, the UNH-IOL, the JITC and Internet2 will make
public preliminary results from Moonv6 phase II and answer questions about
Moonv6 in a joint press conference scheduled for 2 p.m. EST on Monday, March
22.
"The NAv6TF vision for the development of Moonv6 is to eventually create a
Native IPv6 backbone peering that will, in time, permit production services as
new applications develop and entice markets to come to the Moonv6 evolution,"
said Jim Bound, chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force and chair of the
IPv6 Forum Technical Directorate.
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