IPv6 tutorial

[David Kessens <]

Hi,

I promised earlier that I would try to organize a tutorial regarding
IPv6 for the next RIPE meeting. After sending them a request, Marc
Blanchet and Florent Parent, both at Viaginie Inc., CA, were willing
to give such a tutorial.

The tutorial is scheduled for tuesday, May 5.

Attached below is a description.

David K.
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IPv6 primer

IPv6, the next generation IP protocol, is designed to improve
scalability, security, ease-of-configuration, and network management.

The tutorial will give a brief overview of IPv6 protocol including
address architecture, autoconfiguration and management (DNS, routing).
We will also discuss about the transition mechanisms have been
designed to ease the upgrade to IPv6.  

An overview of the configuration for routers and workstations with
examples will be given: Cisco, FreeBSD, Sun, Windows NT, as well as
the Merit MRTd. 

The tutorial will go over the different steps required to get
connected on the 6BONE, including address configuration, routing and
the 6BONE registry.  The tunnel server is a service that provides a
simple way to get connected to the 6BONE.  The architecture of the
server and examples will be presented.

A description of the 6REN initiative, an IPv6 transit service, and the
6TAP project, a service for interconnecting early IPv6 networks, will
be presented.

This tutorial is not focused on the theory behind the protocol but more
on the practical considerations for using and deploying IPv6, so the 
intended audience is tcp/ip engineers, architects and network admins 
that want to understand IPv6 and to be able to deploy it.

The tutorial will be presented by Marc Blanchet and Florent Parent, both
at Viaginie inc., a consulting firm working on network architectures, security
and internationalization. Viaginie inc. is responsible with Dalhousie
University of the 
deployment of IPv6 in Canada. Viaginie 6bone site has been on the 6bone since
more than 2 years now, is one of the backbone sites and maintains IPv6 links 
with many international organisations ; it also runs the mirror
of the 6bone whois server, the IPv6 mirror of the www.6bone.net,
www.6ren.net sites.  
Viaginie also designed a tunnel server implementation available at 
http://www.freenet6.net. Marc Blanchet wrote a internet-draft on a flexible 
method for IPv6 address assignments, soon to be published as an
informational RFC
and is the author of the concept of the 6tap exchange.

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