This wiki-style knowledge center is a unique online comprehensive reference on IPv6 related information. It includes conceptual illustrations, technical specifications, implementation scenarios, home and business applications, links to publications, projects and organizations, and just about anything that has to do with IPv6.
SixXS (Six Access) is a free, non-profit, non-cost service for Local Internet Registries (LIR's) and endusers. The main target is to create a common portal to help company engineers find their way with IPv6 networks deploying IPv6 to their customers in a rapid and controllable fashion.
The root hints file (named.cache, root.ca, root.hints, ...) can be obtained via IANA's page for popular links. This webpage contains the IPv6 addresses of IANA's DNS root servers.
The Moonv6 project is a global effort led by the North American IPv6 Task Force (NAv6TF) involving the University of New Hampshire - InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), Internet2, vendors, service providers and regional IPv6 Forum Task Force network pilots worldwide. Taking place across the U.S. at multiple locations, the Moonv6 project is the largest permanently deployed multi-vendor IPv6 network in the world. The U.S. Government's Department of Defense Joint Interoperability Testing Command (JITC) and other government agencies, the Defense Research & Engineering Network (DREN) and the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) also play significant roles in the Moonv6 demonstrations ensuring DoD interoperability and migration objectives are identified and demonstrated.
IPv6 is a new IP protocol designed to replace IPv4, the Internet protocol that is predominantly deployed and extensively used throughout the world. IPv6 quadruples the number of network address bits from 32 bits (in IPv4) to 128 bits or approximately 3.4 x 1038 addressable nodes, which provides more than enough globally unique IP addresses for every network device on the planet.
Cisco initially announced its three-phase IPv6 roadmap in June 2000, and has since introduced support across a wide range of Cisco solutions. Cisco IOS Software release deliver a wide spectrum of IPv6 features.
Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a new suite of standard protocols for the network layer of the Internet, is built into the latest versions of Microsoft Windows, which include Windows Server 2003, Windows XP with Service Pack 1, Windows XP with Service Pack 2, Windows XP Embedded SP1, Windows CE .NET, Windows Vista (now in beta testing), and Windows Server “Longhorn” (now in beta testing).
IPv6 is designed to solve many of the problems of the current version of IP (known as IPv4) such as address depletion, security, autoconfiguration, and extensibility. Its use will also expand the capabilities of the Internet to enable a variety of valuable and exciting scenarios, including peer-to-peer and mobile applications.
An Integrated Research Proposal of the 5th Call of the 6th European Research Frame Program coordinated by the University of Luxembourg, including 16 partners from 10 European Countries
U-2010 stands for ubiquitous IP centric Government & Enterprise Next Generation Networks Vision 2010 and its overall objective is to provide the most capable means of communication and the most effective access to information to everybody required to act in case of accident, incident, catastrophe or crisis, while using existing or future telecommunication infrastructures.
This page is meant to give some recommendations and examples regarding BGP filter lists (prefix lists) that people might want to use to reduce the number of crappy routes in the global IPv6 network.
We are working to enhance the Linux implementation of the IPv6 protocol and to provide information and support to users and developers who want to learn more about IPv6 and its use with Linux.
This tunnel broker is provided by UKERNA for members of the UK Higher Education community. It supports creating IPv6 tunnels over the existing IPv4 infrastructure using either the Tunnel Setup Protocol (TSP) client, or by using this website.
The need to migrate to IPv6 is real, yet the technical and economic realities of a full-scale network switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is not feasible. Any transition solution adopted must be interoperable with IPv4. Hexago’s technology ensures interoperability between platforms and provides an incremental solution for a seamless transition.
SixXS (Six Access) is a free, non-profit, non-cost service for Local Internet Registries (LIR's) and endusers. The main target is to create a common portal to help company engineers find their way with IPv6 networks deploying IPv6 to their customers in a rapid and controllable fashion. To reach these targets we are providing a whitelabel IPv6 Tunnel Broker and Ghost Route Hunter, an IPv6 route monitoring tool and various other services to help out where needed.
Due to the large number of IPv6 implementations, it is important to provide the market a strong signal proving the level of interoperability across various products. To avoid confusion in the mind of customers, a globally unique logo programme should be defined. The IPv6 logo will give confidence to users that IPv6 is currently operational. It will also be a clear indication that the technology will still be used in the future. To summarize, this logo programme will contribute to the feeling that IPv6 is available and ready to be used.
IPv6 for e-Business is a project for documenting, developing business tools, raising awareness and assessing readiness for Internet Protocol version 6, to build Australian capacity to take advantage of future innovation, especially in the area of business-to-business supply chains.
The IPv6 WG is focused both on understanding how IPv6 will enable Internet2 to achieve its goals and on promoting and coordinating the deployment of IPv6 throughout the Internet2 infrastructure.
The IPv6 Promotion Council is an active voluntary group with the aim of promoting the popularization of IPv6. To date we are doing various tests promotional activities.
The 6bone was an IPv6 testbed to assist in the evolution and deployment of IPv6. It was phased out on the 6th of June 2006 per agreements with the IETF IPv6 community.
What is IPv6? Where can I get an IPv6 implementation for my system? What applications run over IPv6 today? How can I get help with IPv6? Or find out more about it?
6NET was a three-and-a-half year European project to demonstrate that continued growth of the Internet can be met using new IPv6 technology. The project built a native IPv6-based network connecting sixteen countries in order to gain experience of IPv6 deployment and migration from existing IPv4-based networks. This was used to extensively test a variety of new IPv6 services and applications, as well as interoperability with legacy applications. The 6NET project concluded on 30 June 2005, but IPv6 dissemination, training and support activities continue in the 6DISS project.
6DISS is a Specific Support Action in the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union.
The project aims to promote widespread adoption of IPv6 by providing IPv6 training and knowledge transfer in developing regions. It is also establishing contacts with networking personnel and organisations in these regions, in order to encourage cooperation and possible future participation in European R&D activities.
The prime goal of this project is to focus on the coordination of a harmonized European IPv6 deployment roadmap, addressing the fundamental challenges to reinforce and stimulate in Europe wide-spread deployment of IPv6, to leverage from its supportive features that could lead to innovative applications and services and content delivery.
IST 2006 includes a high-level conference conference, an Exhibition of cutting edge research results from across Europe and a programme of networking sessions and workshops, with the exhibition and networking programmes defined by participants via this website.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual.
When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk with each other. However, it soon became clear that NCP was limiting in some ways, so work started on something better. The engineers decided that it made sense to split the monolithic NCP protocol into two parts: an Internet Protocol that allows packets to be routed between the different networks connected to the ARPANET, and a Transport Control Protocol that takes a data stream, splits it into segments and transmits the segments using the Internet Protocol. On the other side, the receiving Transport Control Protocol makes sure the segments are put together in the right order before they're delivered as a data stream to the receiving application. An important implication of this approach is that unlike, for instance, a phone connected to a wired or wireless phone network, a host connected to the ARPANET then and the Internet now must know its own address. (...)
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