UKERNA IPv6 Collaborations Overview

• UK IPv6 Task Force
  UKERNA is a member of the UK IPv6 Task Force, and is contributing to exchnaging knowledge between academic and industrial/commercial users and deployers of IPv6 technology.

• 6NET
  The Cisco-led 6NET project represents a significant investment by the European Commission - some 9.5M Euros of funding - and sees UKERNA and three UK universities (Southampton, UCL and Lancaster) playing a major role in the project. The 6NET project will allow UKERNA to gain operational quality experience of running an IPv6 network, in preparation for a full service on JANET at some point in the future.

• TERENA TF-NGN Working Group
  The GÉANT pan-European research network connects over 25 national research networks. The TERENA TF-NGN Working Group studies advanced technlogy areas and reports into the GÉANT project. It includes an IPv6 activity led by Southampton on behalf of UKERNA, which studies IPv6 areas that are complementary to 6NET.

• Euro6IX
  Euro6IX is a parallel, more commercially oriented IPv6 deployment project to 6NET, featuring leading European telcos. EC funding is again significant at around 8M Euros. The University of Southampton is a partner on Euro6IX, reporting back to UKERNA on developments of interest.

• IST IPv6 Cluster
  This Cluster brings together research from EU IST research projects, including 6NET and Euro6IX, to a single knowledge portal. IPv6 news is also posted here on a regular basis.

• Internet 2
  UKERNA has had a Memorandum of Understanding with the Internet 2 project for some time now, which covers a broad relationship with Internet 2 as a whole. During 2001, UKERNA established an IPv6 BGP4+ peering with Internet 2, using an IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel on the transatlantic research link. Since mid-2003, JANET has had native IPv6 connectivity to Internet 2 via the dual-stack GÉANT-Abilene transatlantic link.

• IPv6 Forum
  UKERNA is a member of the IPv6 Forum, the international body that undertakes IPv6 promotional activities and that assists with discussion of technical and political issues for IPv6 deployment.