______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT SIG: Policy Date: Thursday 2 March 2006 Time: 11.00am Presentation: Large IPv4 address space usage trial for future IPv6 Presenter: Kosuke Ito ______________________________________________________________________ TOSHIYUKI HOSAKA: The first session of this policy SIG ends at 10:30, so we only have nine minutes left, so we can enter the tea break from now for 40 minutes. So please come back to this room at 11am. Thank you. APNIC 21 Policy SIG Thursday 2 March 2006 Session Two - 1100-1230 TOSHIYUKI HOSAKA: So it's 11am. Welcome back to the Policy SIG again. The first presenter of the second session in this Policy SIG is Mr Kosuke Ito from IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan. KOSUKE ITO: Good morning. My name is Kosuke from IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan. Regularly we report our large IPv4 address space utilising trial since back in 2001, I believe. And this time it will be our 10th report at an APNIC meeting. For this time, I'd like to report that, first of all, we ended the Phase 1 of this trial and that was two APNICs ago, we were proposing to extend this program toward the end of 2008. Then we tried to make the purpose of the Phase 1 and Phase 2. So I'd like to report how we have done in Phase 1. Then, at the last part, we report how we started off Phase 2 of this trial. Phase 1 - at the end of the Phase 1 - as of the end of 2005, Phase 1 was closed, as we planned. Then, for a participant has completed to transit to IPv6 service deployment, the address space allocated to has been returned to IPv6 PC by the deadline, which is the end of 2005. There are six participants who are involved in the Phase 1 and there's one participant that is deploying IPv6 service, which is YOZAN is the participant who is operating a WiMAX carrier service. So we collected address space from them to be data shifting to the real business space. For the other participants, address space allocated to each of them is succeeded to be utilised for Phase 2. Then, as at last January, we collecting the reports of the Phase 1 from each of the participants at the regular hearing session. Now, according to them, we summarised that Phase 1 of the results, which is - first part - goodness of the trial. By this trial, large global address space allocation at the one time leads the new service deployment, which is - we can observe that it's less-expensive - Always-on broadband services for home users and also multiple fixed-IP address service and also area-wide wireless LAN service, which requires that a certain address block at each of the access points. And VoIP/IP phone service and contents delivery network service. And new findings we could have is that ease of the large-scale network service design, by the large global address space allocation at the one time, leads to less operational cost which is more efficient way to design the network. And also, actually, they are start looking at how they can start up the v6 transition. So this is very good part of the trial itself. Each participant considering when they are feel like it would be better to shift toward the v6 so that they can save operational costs or save - I mean, trying to make their network service more scaleable. So that they started off to how they can do for that future network involvement. Then they find out some issues to be cleared, or issues to be solved. And some participants found that IPv6-based service is cost saving, as I said so this is one very good goodness of the trial. However, as I said, many of them are still experiencing many barriers for the transition to IPv6. IPv6 readiness of devices - many of them now, most of the routers and many of the PCs are getting ready for v6. However, not ready yet for many of the necessities surrounding or integrating the network service, which is like maintaining basic service, like load balancing, so many of the things to maintain a service level and service in the very business level. They can't get all the components together for the v6 ready to use. And also access network to users, which is not ready for the many of the ISPs. Of course, in Japan, many of the large-scale ISPs started off the v6 service but not all of them. And especially in the suburbs or rural areas of the ISPs, small ISPs, they don't start a v6 service. So it's pretty hard to make the native v6 service through end to end. And that's maybe the part that is difficult to make the awareness of the users for the v6 itself. And some of the v4 network is not able to accommodate PC enabling the IPv6. So we have to get rid of these kinds of existing v4 networks, trying to be more operatable with the IPv6-ready PCs. And readiness of software. I think that, so far, getting better, but still the DNS query, stability, that kind of stuff, is still not fully deployed yet. Many of the browsers or basic applications is not ready yet and, like, web authentication, or that kind of application level readiness for the v6 is not ready. And, of course, that makes some security halls. So many of the participants feels like it's pretty too soon to start off the service by v6. And this is the very serious part - they are a little bit hesitant to start off the large-scale service by the v6, is that security part. And also, they - some of them try to start off the v6, but they have to know, I mean, they found to know that additional care is necessary for v6 DoS or DoS attack or spam filtering, that kind of stuff. Some of them experienced that many of the DoS attack increased on unused IPv6 address space, so they have to make certain treatment of that kind of space for that v6 when they start to use it. So that's all about we found out by closing of Phase 1. Then these are - these barriers or issues we should try to clear up for the Phase 2. Many of them expressed that they like to continue this program by - because of they would like to clear up these kinds of issues. Then we start at Phase 2, at the beginning of this year. So far, IPv6 Promotion Council and continuing participants have worked to renew the contract so that they can continuously participate on in program. And, as of January 1st, we officially started off the trial. And this Phase 2 is to be end by the end of 2008. And, in the contract, participants needs to agree the three basic conditions as listed. First of all, this trial is closed at the end of 2008 and no extension. This is the promise we made at the APNIC meeting in Fiji maybe, and when this extension was approved by the APNIC committee. And participants need to set the IPv6 service deployment goal within this trial. And need to submit the deployment schedule. So the mandate that the participants started off any sort of v6 service officially which the end-users or users of the service can be choosing from their official business. And, as we have done so far, report regularly - twice a year - between IPv6 PC and participants of this program. And participants of the Phase 2 is quite not changed from the Phase 1. Nationwide ADSL/VoIP service provider. Nationwide Always-on FTTH service provider, L3 connectivity/IP-Phone service provider and contents delivery network ASP and public wireless-LAN access service provider. These five are continuing participants to the Phase 2. And maybe you can guess what they would like to start off with IPv6 and this is here. Native/dual connectivity service and L3 service, which is stable with L3 connectivity by IPv6 regardless of the base IP infrastructure, which is they are on top of the - this service provider is like VN, or virtual network, operator, so they struggle with across the basic infrastructure to accommodate v6 or not, so they are trying to utilise the tunnel or VN type of technology, which they can make that independent from the basic infrastructure and their service IP network. And a city-wide IPv6 public wireless service, which is maybe many of you are experienced in Kyoto with the Kyoto city area-wide wireless service which they are trying to makes IPv6 ready and the IPv6 contents delivery network platform service by the ISPs. Then we just started off the Phase 2 and many of them are quite reasonable time schedules, which is - I cannot disclose up here but they are trying to make this kind of a service by the end of 2007 or middle of 2008. So this should be more practical time schedule, I believe, than we are - from the IPv6 PC, we are trying to observe how we can act in this program and trying to catch up regularly from them about how it's going on on that individual participants' activities. And some basic things we should share here - we like to bring those kinds of issues or findings at the regularly in APNIC Policy SIG. That's all. Thank you. Is there any questions or comments? TOSHIYUKI HOSAKA: Any comments or questions? Izumi, are you making comments or questions? IZUMI OKUTANI: No, I'm getting ready for my presentation. Sorry. TOSHIYUKI HOSAKA: OK, that's fine. Thank you, Ito-san. I believe you will be coming back next APNIC meeting to report this update? KOSUKE ITO: Yes. We are happy to report this trial status every APNIC meeting. TOSHIYUKI HOSAKA: Thank you, Ito-san. KOSUKE ITO: Right. Thank you very much. APPLAUSE