1、IPv6 Forum Liaison Report www.ipv6forum.org,Torino, Italy 6-8 May 2008 Oif2008.xxx Renee Esposito Booz Allen Hamilton,IPv4 Address Space,IPv4 address space is melting IPv4 Address space Countdown is at IPv4 contains 232 addresses, just over four billion unique IP addresses IPv6 supports 2128 (about
2、 3.41038) addresses As of the end of March 2008: 35 IP Blocks are left that is below 16% U.S. Federal agencies must comply with Office of Management and Budgets mandate by June 2008 to have networks be IPv6 Capable.,Moving to IPv6,During the RIPE 55 meeting in Amsterdam “The remaining pool of unallo
3、cated IPv4 address space is likely to be fully allocated within two to four years. “ “the deployment of IPv6 is necessary for the development of future IP networks.” ARIN and the other Regional Internet Registries have distributed IPv6 alongside IPv4 since 1999 In 2007, ARIN Board of Trustees passes
4、 a resolution on numbering resource availability IPv6 numbering is necessary from ARIN when requiring contiguous IP numbering resources,What To Do,Question: Does your company have enough public IPv4 addresses to sustain their businesses forever? Once the IPv4 address pool is gone, they will not be a
5、ble to get a public IP address unless they move to IPv6 Questions: What should U.S. companies be doing about IPv6? Begin planning the move to IPv6 for IT departments Upgrade the infrastructure. Get network plumbing in order so that IPv6 can co-exist and be interoperable with IPv4 Get an address spac
6、e plan. What is going to make companies move to IPv6: when they need IPv6. Guidance Jan 2008, NIST, A Profile for IPv6 in U.S. Government, ver 1.0 Aug 2007, DISA, DOD IPv6 Generic Test Plan, ver 3,IPv6 Logo Program,IPv6 Logo Indicates interoperability across various products IPv6 is currently operat
7、ional and will be used in future Questions: What should U.S. companies be doing about IPv6?Three Phases Phase 1 : Logo indicates that the product includes IPv6 mandatory core protocols and can interoperate with other IPv6 implementations. Phase 2: technical consensus and clear technical references;
8、product has successfully satisfied strong requirements by the Logo Committee Phase 3: same testing as Phase 2, but with IPsec mandatedwww.ipv6ready.org Contains links for Chinese and Japanese sites,IPv6 Logo Program,IPv6 Logo and U.S. Government Approaching OMB June 30, 2008 deadline mandating compl
9、iance of having networks be IPv6 capableIPv6 Logo provides the general market and all governments with certified products for interoperability IPv6 Logo provides assurance that networking and security technologies will interoperate within networksApproved Product List http:/www.ipv6ready.org/logo_db/approved_list_p2.php,
