IPv6 Technical SIG transcript

APNIC 25
IPv6 Technical SIG 1400-1530
Wednesday 27 February

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

Today, we have four agendas. So, OK, one of them is cancelled now because he can't arrive now.

So, first of all, housekeeping notes. Where...? Yes.

Today, we will have APNIC social event. Here are the instructions so, if you don't have the instructions, please come to here. And it's open for everyone. And Helpdesk is available in Osmanthus Room, around here? Yeah. So you can go there to ask your questions about APNIC or conference itself.

And online survey - survey forms will be available at APNIC website. So please check the website and please inform us about your feelings of this conference.

OK, so the first agenda will be IPv6 update from Anna, APNIC. Please?

IPv6 update

ANNA MULINGBAYAN:

Hello, everyone. Good afternoon. I'm Anna from APNIC and I'm here to represent our regular IPv6 update. Just to give you a bit of an overview of what I'll cover, I'll present to you the RIR allocation statistics, APNIC allocation assignment and allocation and assignments, our Whois Database registration in v6 and the global IPv6 routing table.

OK, to start with, here is the total number of allocations for each NIRs. This figure was taken from December last year, which is 31 December 2007, and, based on the figures, RIPE NCC still has the largest number of allocations, which is 770, followed by ARIN and then APNIC. Now, just to clarify, this is based on the actual number of allocations so whether it's /32 or larger than /32 allocation, that is taken as just one allocation to an LIR.

Now, this slide shows the allocations made by APNIC per year. So we see from last year, so far it's the largest number of allocations we've made per year, which is 55.

And this one shows the number of allocations we've made which is larger than /32. In comparison from the last update we've made, it was 18 large allocations, so from last year, we made 2 large allocations for 2 LIRs.

Now, um, this slide shows the number of allocations we've made for each economy. This shows that the first five countries who got the largest number of v6 allocations are Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China and Australia.

This one shows the new economies we've made v6 allocations per year. So in 2007, we made allocations to Fiji and Sri Lanka and at the start of this year, there is one allocation for Bhutan.

Um, this is IX assignments in 2007. We've made two new assignments, which is for India and Thailand. So, all in all, we have 23 total IX assignments.

Critical infrastructure - this is the same as last year. We have a total number of 16 assignments.

Now, this one is quite interesting. We implemented a portable Assignment Policy last year and so far we've only made eight portable assignments, mostly from New Zealand. We've made two for Japan, one for an AP account and one in Australia. Maybe it's also interesting to mention that some of the NIRs just started implementing this new policy, so next year we'll see whether we have more assignments for smaller networks.

AP account is more for international companies, for example HP, that operate in the Asia Pacific region.

OK, this is another interesting information. From last year, what we showed you is just the total number of Whois registration in the APNIC Whois Database. Now, this one, we tried to segregate from the Whois registration from other NIRs. So basically this graph shows JPNIC, APNIC and TWNIC's v6 registration and, if you've noticed, there's a large number of /40 Whois registration in JPNIC Whois Database and a few thousand /48s. And interestingly, we have 226 prefixes registered in the APNIC Whois Database, so a bit, um, a bit of track if we get more of these assignments in the future for Whois Database overload so we'll probably see in the next few years whether we get more than 126 assignments in the database.

OK, this is the last slide for showing the global routing table of IPv6. The largest number of announcements are /32 prefixes, a bit of /48 and, in comparison to last year's update, there's a /16 prefix announced in the routing table.

That's it from me. Any questions?

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

Any questions? Please use microphone, because this session is broadcasted, so please use microphone.

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

And say your name please.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

My name is Tomohiro Fujisaki from NTT and I have two questions. One is about the previous slide. Yes, yes. Do you have any information whether it is growing on the assigned allocation or something like that?

ANNA MULINGBAYAN:

Yes. In comparison to last year's figure of the Whois Database registration, there's only about 8,000 /40 assignments; and if you look now, there is 14,035 from JPNIC database and 17 from APNIC, so it's definitely growing, especially in the JPNIC database.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Thank you. And one more. Please show the last slide. The routing table. I think the shortest allocation size is /19. What is the /16? Do you have any information about that?

ANNA MULINGBAYAN:

I have the prefix with me. The dump was taken last February 13 from APNIC Brisbane router. I can show you later, maybe, the actual prefix.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Yeah, yeah.

ANNA MULINGBAYAN:

I have the information with me. I'll give it to you if you're interested to know.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Yeah. Thank you.

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

Any other questions? OK.

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

Can I ask one question from me? I'm from NTT Communications. So, these two slides are very interesting because of the registry it's /40 and /48 almost, but the routing table is for the /32 is the biggest thing, so it means that this /32 is not on the registry right now, right?

ANNA MULINGBAYAN:

OK, let me clarify that this registration is only from the customer end. We did not include the /32 allocations from our end because every time we make allocations we register it directly at allocation to members, so this one only shows the registrations coming from the customers and from the members.

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

I see.

ANNA MULINGBAYAN:

So maybe next year we can show the registration for a /32 so we have comparison how many is being announced and how many is being allocated.

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

Can I ask about the portable assignments? Do you have any reasons why people do not get the portable address?

ANNA MULINGBAYAN:

I believe most of these cases are small networks who cannot qualify for a /32 allocation but they want to have their own independent portable IPv6 address space so, yeah, basically these are small networks who want to have their own v6 assignment.

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

OK. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

IPv6 topics briefing

OK, the next one is IPv6 topics briefing from me and Tomohiro Fujisaki-san from NTT.

OK, IPv6 topic briefing. So first one is IPv6 glue on the root. As you already know, about the root DNS server, it's the top level of the DNS tree and they are offering referrals to the sub-domains, like .tw, .arpa and so on, and now 13 names are operational. It's just names. It's - actually, there are 144 clusters working in the root. OK.

And Akira Kato from WIDE, he looked at the M-Root server and gave us the current statistics of M root traffic. It's like 25Mbps usually and in this month, February 4, a AAAA record was added for v6 root servers and after that, here is the query rate. Here are IPv4 queries, 100 times much more than IPv6 queries, but on 4th February, after the AAAA record was added, the v6 record was increased and it looks like very stable and so far no trouble was submitted. So it works. If you have any information with this AAAA record on the root, please let us know.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Next, I briefly report the /48 space reachability issue. Today, seven root servers have IPv6 connectivity and currently six of those root servers are distributed. And now, actually, four of them are in the critical infrastructure address space, which size is /48. That is ARIN's infrastructure address space. And other servers are in /32 address space.

And this is current status of the PI space usage and currently ARIN and APNIC have started to assign /48 address space for end-sites. And currently, about 150 organisations got this address space and that's just a few of them. And this is just for interest, but these famous sites have got this IPv6 address space.

OK, and the problem is that it is said that some sites filter the /48 prefix and this was mentioned in the APNIC Policy SIG mailing list recently. And so we started to test the BGP table /48 space. And we just begin to check and we tried to access IPv6 Internet from these two AS, one is AS 4897, which has this /32 address and the other is AS 2.3, which has this /48 address.

And this is just quickly - we sent ICMP echo and test nodes from these networks - sorry, this is the brief report. We send ICMP and test route from these two networks and got these results. For the ICMPv6, we sent 276 active IPv6 nodes and got 4R5 replies only to the PA networks. And at the traceroute, we sent 340 interruptions. 58 networks are reachable by only from PA address. Actually we just started this examination, so this is just for brief information, but there will be a different BGP events between two PAs and PIs.

So this is just a conclusion, and /48 prefixes looks like filtered by some sites and this is my recognition - please check your edge routers or transit providers not to filter out the /48 prefixes.

OK, this send of our presentation. If you have any comments or questions.

KAZU YAMAMOTO:

My question is a little bit - ah, sorry. I'm Kazu Yamamoto from IIJ. My question may be a little bit technical so DNS packet data UDP, it has a limitation of 512 and do you say that in root zone there is 13 A records and seven records, right, at this moment? Right? Six? Oh, six. Can you squeeze these address into 512, right? DNS servers in the world are using eDNS field already, if you know that, please tell me.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

In some case, the reply from root server would exceed the 512. But in that case, if you have no option but eDNS 0 then the additional information will... will, um, limit it.

KAZU YAMAMOTO:

So do you know how many exist in the one packet, one DNA packet actually?

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Actually, only two there, 13 A records, only two. Only two -

KAZU YAMAMOTO:

Out of these six A records?

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Yes, yes, yes.

KAZU YAMAMOTO:

Oh.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

I would have to check but I've heard that if the client has the eDNS cable, then they have no - only two of those are there.

KAZU YAMAMOTO:

OK. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

OK. I have one comment over this reachability analysis. I think there are two factors. As you know, one prefix is announced from 2-octet AS and the other one is announced from 4-octet AS. So, as you point out, the result is because of the AS network. But, anyway, this is very problem, yeah.

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

OK. So any other questions?

So the next one is IPv6 deployment status in Taiwan, Dr Ching-Heng Ku.

IPv6 deployment status in Taiwan

CHING-HENG KU:

Sorry. The problem is my computer. Good afternoon, everyone. I have the presentation for IPv6 deployment status in Taiwan. May I?

OK, the outline of this presentation will be surrounding air, the IPv6 Deployment & Development Program in Taiwan.

And IPv4 address depletion is indeed approaching. So we have 30 IPv6 for many years. And besides personal communication, such as data or voice service, it's explosive growth all over the world. In Taiwan, we have U-Taiwan, followed by U-Taiwan, U-Korea. It means the all-IP era is blooming.

This shows the IPv6 project organisation. This involves the biggest ISPs R & D departments and many universities and the industrial promotion and deployment and academic Internet.

The IPv6 network infrastructure in Taiwan - we have 27 IPv6 address blocks allocated and total 2,309 /32 addresses allocated.

And IPv6 backbone includes academic and research networks, such as the TWAREN, the TANet. Commercial networks, there are many ISPs such as HiNet, Sparq, APOL, Seednet, TTN, Taiwan NTT, and TFN, Giga, So-net. They have IPv6 addresses. Besides those, there are seven ISPs that provide IPv4 and IPv6 tunnel services. And two ISPs provide native IPv6 commercial services, HiNet and TTN. And there are two IPv6 exchange points available, the HiNet and Academic Sinica. Besides this, there is a government network. GSN also start to deploy IPv6 trial.

IPv6 access services, including native IPv6 lease line, and IPv4 and IPv6 tunnel broker service and IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack service in Taiwan.

And this slide shows the IPv6 tunnel broker service. There are seven major ISPs deploy this service since November 9, 2007.

And this slide shows the optical fibre plus dual stack service, v4 and v6, in a specific community. These services will be provided in 2008 to us in some communities. So they are construction companies. They cooperate with the Chunghwa Telecom to provide IPv4 and IPv6 habitat home service this year.

In the area of IPv4 and IPv6 products, this slide shows the status to data of IPv6 Ready Logo. So the first, the biggest, the largest number of products is from Japan and follows American and the third is Taiwan, of course, Korea and China and so on. And IPv6 Ready Logo to the largest number of products is also from Japan and follows America, Taiwan, China, Korea, India.

I introduced an IPv6 application in Taiwan. We have some trials for applications. The first is the point-to-point video streaming. The second is the integrated multiprotocol VoIP platform. The third is the ubiquitous health care. The fourth is the IPv6 in e-learning. The fourth is the real-time weather observation, and the next one is the IPv6 MoD. IPv6 peer2peer video streaming is this pioneer system is developed by the National Taiwan University. They have some testing customers in different schools.

The VoIP platform has been commercialised. This in native IPv6 environment can be looked at as a new IP platform application.

The third is the Healthcarev6 in Tai-Chung Asia University. They set up the health care system and cooperate with the hospital to implement this system in a hospital to make some applications there in the hospital using IPv6.

The e-learning is in Tai-Nan, south of Taiwan. They implemented in the elementary school. They have some language course to using this e-learning system using IPv6 environment.

The weather observation system is cooperate with the Japan's Live E! Project. This have some sensors set up in Si-Tou in the middle of Taiwan on the mountains so they can get the real-time weather data using IPv6 network.

Chunghwa Telecom have provide IPv6-only multimedia on demand service.

Besides these applications, in order to promote IPv6 applications, we set up some exhibitions. One is the IPv6 Show Room. The second one is the IPv6 Pavilion. It's the exhibition of IPv6 applications in future life.

The IPv6 Show Room is set up in TWNIC. So it's showroom.twnic.net.tw. If you are interested in this show room, you can connect this URL right now. You can - we have a Chinese version and an English version, so you - there are some real-time ETO and remote illumination and air conditioning control, the IPv6 meteorological measurement system, the VoIP and MoD lists. Such applications will be set up in this website. So you can use this website as our show room portal.

Besides this show room, we set up IPv6 Pavilion. This provides a scenario of IPv6 application in National Taiwan Science Education Center. The student of elementary school and high school is start on January 17, we set up the scenario of the living room and the kitchen and the study room and the bathroom and the eBus station in this, the pavilion. And we have some pictures to show this environment. So this picture shows the kitchen includes the intelligent refrigerator. And the study room has the Internet desk. And the living room has the Internet television.

So this slide shows the refrigerator. They have some interactive. And using IPv6 in the refrigerator to know the food supply. Besides this, we have the medical care. We can get your weight and height and use the Internet to transport to your doctor this kind of the scenario. And the eBus, using the transportation, and some education using the Internet desk to show these applications in the future life.

This slide shows many promotions. We also do some testing. We did the native IPv6 DNS testing. Because the IANA adds the AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses for six of the 13 root nameservers on February 4 making it possible for two Internet hosts to find each other without using the old IPv4 protocol. It's our test. We used the native IPv6 to contact Internet on Windows vista. So this slide shows the status on Windows vista. There are IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. So we - first we disabled IPv4 and so the stative became the native IPv6. The IPv6 DNS status because the default is to get it automatically, we need to - for the status, we allow the DNS server in the native IPv6 so the DNS server - there is no DNS server in the... so far we set up the DNS server manually to the a. root-server in the configuration. So we set up manually to type the IPv6 address of the A-root server. So the IP status with the DNS become the A-root server.

So we test the native IPv6 connection. In this configuration, we try to query IPv6 host. We try to connect other IPv6 host but we cannot get a response. We use the root server as the DNS server. We cannot get the response. So we need to set up DNS server manually to other server we built. So we still have DNS server in Taiwan. It's IPv6. So this is the status of the DNS native IPv6. This used the IPv6 nslookup to check it. And when we used the IPv6 DNS by ourselves, it worked well on native IPv6 network. And you can use the native IPv6 to connect to the Internet. Because the root server will not respond query, that's the entry did not include the AAAA entry, so we need to set up another DNS - IPv6 DNS server by ourselves. So it's all my presentation. Thank you.

APPLAUSE

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

Any questions or comments?

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

I have one question about the status in Taiwan. You said the IPv6 native with fibre in this year.

CHING-HENG KU:

Native IPv6 - this service has been provided by Chunghwa Telecom. So most customers can - do not use this service, so they cannot access IPv6 environment.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Actually -

CHING-HENG KU:

In 2008, there are some where we will have fibre to the home service. That service is the IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Yeah and I want to know - in Japan, one of the missing pieces is home router and actually we can buy the IPv4 home router about 30 or 40 US dollars. But we have limited IPv6 capable routers and the price is maybe four or five times.

CHING-HENG KU:

The cost.

TOMOHIRO FUJISAKI:

Yeah. Actually I want to know if there is any cheap home routers with IPv6-capability in Taiwan?

CHING-HENG KU:

Maybe someone from Chunghwa Telecom.

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

(Inaudible)

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

There is fibre to the home so the ocean will have optical transfer to Ethernet, this kind of equipment is set up at home. So they don't use the home router to - I'm not sure. Maybe someone else can answer.

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

OK, let me translate about this. Thank you.

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

Any other questions or comments? OK, thank you.

CHING-HENG KU:

Thank you.

APPLAUSE

IPv6 status in Japan

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

The next speaker is Nao Fukushima from IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan and the Mitsubishi Research Institute. His talk about be IPv6 status in Japan.

NAO FUKUSHIMA:

Hi, everyone. I'm Nao Fukushima. I'm from the IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan and Mitsubishi Research Institute. Today, I will introduce the IPv6 deployment status in Japan.

This is today's agenda. First of all, I will introduce the governmental activities of Japan and secondly the IPv6 service and product information. And thirdly, I will introduce the promotion council and finally I will conclude my presentation.

Now I will introduce governmental activities of Japan. In Japan, the government agency is planning to make the system to be compatible with IPv6. And IT Strategic Headquarters, and this is the organisation that decides the IT poll Silva of Japan and decided IT New Reform Strategy in January 2006. This strategy was used to undertake five years of the in-Japan strategy from 2000 and to achieve a complete transformation of itself through the utilisation of IT by fiscal year 2010. To achieve those objectives, IPv6 is located as a complete strategy in the strategy.

And this yellow part and, "Also, as information and communications hardware is updated and replaced in the future, new equipment will, as a general rule, be IPv6 compatible by fiscal year 2008." Fiscal year 2008, the old government system will come to be compatible with IPv6 and IT Strategic Headquarters also decided priority policy program 2006 in July 2006. This program sets a complete schedule of IT strategy.

The Ministry of Internal affairs and communications will make the guideline for the strategy and each ministry agency will be requested to settle on a concrete plan to be compatible with IPv6 by the end of fiscal year 2006 - oh, oh, sorry. Oh. Oh. Oh. All telecoms to be compatible with IPv6 by the end of fiscal year 2008. And now is 2008 there's an IPv6 presentation in Japan.

The Ministry of Internal affairs and communications of Japan published the guideline to enable IPv6 for e-government systems in April 2007. The guideline was requested by Priority Policy Program in 2006. In these guidelines there are four stages in the introduction of the IPv6 - the pre-IPv6 deployment stage, the IPv6 deployment stage, IPv6/IPv4 co-existence stage, IPv6-completed stage.

After 2007, we were in the pre-IPv6 deployment stage.

The guideline describes the points, requirements and items to investigate for the e-government system to be IPv6 networked before going into the deployment stage. And this is basic of the IPv6 introduction into the e-government system.

The all ministry agency in Japan is announcing the optimisation plan in the e-government promotion plan. In this plan, there will be an introduction of IPv6 into e-government systems. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and so on. Ministry of Finance declared IPv6 compatible until fiscal year 2008 and Cabinet Office begins IPv6 introduction of fiscal year 2007. By the way, this part I have no time to translate. This is, um, the accept of optimisation.

In Japan, IPv6 has already been written in the request for proposal requirement of the e-government system, that IPv6 will become indispensable in the future. In two ministries, it is here now. For the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, for integration network circuit and equipment, for information system of administration of Bureau of Labour and in the Cabinet Office for the Cabinet Office LAN system. In the system of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the equipment to acquire ready phase two is recommended. And that image is part of RFP of integration circuit network and equipment. This is Japanese only. Sorry.

IPv6-ready logo is standard of IPv6 forum. It is up there. JATE - Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment, they provide compliance certifications for telecommunications terminal equipment - mobile phones, etc - has joined to IPv6 Forum Ready Logo Program. A letter of intention has been signed up between IPv6 Forum and JATE on November 19, 2007 at Canberra in IPv6 summit. Now JATE begins to participate in the process of the IPv6 ready logo. This said, it will be become easy for IPv6 Ready Logo to be adopted for e-government RFP.

And now, secondly, I will introduce IPv6 field trial. Because I am introducing this part from these slides.

And these are the individual projects of the IPv6 deployment field trial in Japan from fiscal year 2003 to fiscal year 2005. It tested practical use of IPv6 to be widely carried out. The results of the experiments were publicly through the guidelines to promote expansion and transition of IPv6 utilisation. In total, 21 players and the conclusions of 15 of those are shown here but there are too many players to introduce now. It is... um, attention in the trial in this experiment, the IPv6 multiprefix technology was used. In others, it's different, there is different information from the camera. This camera, one camera has three loads, one when the there is only a limited image, two when the Security Service sees the image and the maintenance service sees this manager's company can see only the operational data of the camera.

And the transmission experiment of HD contents was paid special information in this trial. We were searching for information on the telephone and the radio so far. IPv6 prevention system, officers of the headquarters assisted with detailed visual information of the cameras. The camera was installed in the town. And information is received using PDA.

Now, recent trials is to on trial, there's an experiment of high definition content distribution of IPv6 multicast in 2007. And next to the experiment of high definition content distribution by Wi-Fi IPv6 multicast network in 2008. I think these IPv6 multicast technology will be used in the future. But this is...

Now I will introduce IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan application and service.

First I will introduce FLET's total net and IPv6 multicast service. Many services using IPv6 closed network in Japan are on this platform. And this slide shows an IPv6 service called FLET.net operated by NTT East cooperation. NTT East is an access line provider and they don't provide Internet connectivity. Therefore, the IPv6 service does not provide IPv6 Internet access but provided access using their access network. The user is using peer 2 peer communication for these services. The service costs $3 additional on the access line charge until last year. Now this service is free of charge. Therefore, FLET users exceeded 4 million users can use IPv6 now.

This case is content distribution service. Multicast broadcasting and video on demand service which is called host media project is provided from July 2004 and on demand TV project is provided in June 2005. This service uses FLET network and they have in total 200,000 subscribers in 2007. And since this year, the service tries to transmit TV broadcast by IP will begin and this service has been fixed using IPv6 multicast technology. If this service starts, it is expected that the number of users will increase at a dash.

This service is earthquake warning system for individual resident. First of all, the weather ministry, weather ministry sends information on the earthquake and it goes to NTT Communications and distributed by IPv6 multicast technology in the information that came from the weather ministry and when the station gets warning message, it informs the warning. NTT Communications have been providing this service since October 2007.

I will introduce the case of Becare. This uses IPv6 multicast. The famous Japanese cram school is now using the system to send the image of the famous lecture to another place at the same time. And instead of using system, it's visual. However, when you use the system, it costs very much because expensive equipment is necessary. It is difficult to take a course in an individual house. Then they began to replay the image using IPv6 multicast. This service uses FLET.

Why did they use IPv6 multicast technology? There's two points. First, they have to provide real-time and high-quality broadcasting service. Second, they have to distribute the high-quality image to multipoints cheaply. Then, because they used IPv6, they reduced the cost to 70 million yen by this method. So, it cost 200 million yen of more than initial cost so far.

I will introduce the building facility management case. This case is IPv6 deployment field trial case, the experiment done by NTT Communications in Tokyo. They tried to monitor the status of elevators, AC or ventilators, movement of guests in the museum, temperature of rooms and surveillance camera images in a facility management centre. They were experts' analysis of data on the number of guests in respective rooms and temperatures available, it is possible to minimise energy consumption. In NTT Communications' case, they think that they can reduce about 15% of energy consumption and another case, and they reduced about 30% of energy consumption at their factory.

Our next case is a service provided by FreeBit, a Japanese venture company. Office 1 is an IP phone solution for company users. It is the first IP Centrex service using IPv6 in the world. The first customers over this service is dormitory operators. They operate 300 dormitories in June 2004. They introduced 25,000 IP points for each dormitory habitant. They did this introduction work in the short time of nine months. And now FreeBit have 500 dormitories on this and 30,000 IP phones. Why did they use IPv6? FreeBit say that without IPv6 they can't provide these phones in the present cost and time. This requires human resources cost in the installation and misconfiguration and troubleshooting.

This is Live E! Project. Live E! is an approach that aims at the achievement of the infrastructure construction that can use, process and share environmental information. Environmental information is collected by digital weather system - digital weather station, IP camera and so on. These are set up by the individual and the organisation voluntarily. The digital weather station acquires the weather information with low cost, and it sends the information to the data server via the Internet. By the installation of a lot of these service stations, the environmental information can be utilised much more.

The development of a new activity is in education, public service and the business field. As shown in the previous slide, we have first introduction of something covering the nation as one spectrum and another spectrum is dense installation for a particular purpose, but we've already recognised that in infrastructure is useful for other purposes as well.

We have projects with several local governments. The first one is with Minato-ku in metropolitan Tokyo. They want to use the weather sensor system for education material for their young kids in their elementary schools and for their public services, such as collection of weather information to look at the status of the weather system in metropolitan Tokyo for the information in the case of education process for serious earthquakes as an emergency service. That is one of the important missions for local government. The other example is Kurashiki City in Okayama. They have experienced serious flooding due to heavy rain in the past two years, so that they want to have a system that provides appropriate information to every citizen via the Internet. So, they have decided to install weather stations at every single junior high school in the city. Also, they will use this information for educational materials for elementary schools, junior high schools or other educational institutions.

And these two slides were developed in Japan as the introduction of the products sold in Japan. When you want to run the detailed function, please hear it from each manufacturer and I will introduce the maker.

It is domestic IP status in Japan. MIC investigated and made the offer situation of the IPv6 service public for country ISP on March 30, 2007. The company that was offering IPv6 was one company of 22 and one company is in service. However, other companies also are advancing for IPv6 of the equipment. There are a lot of companies that predict about 2010 or 2011 as time when ISP of the more than half providers the IPv6 service.

Actually, there are some companies which you get on this table, that service IPv6, but there is only one company. This investigation is at the time of doing this year and the new consequence where we open to the public at the end of March this year.

Last, I will show you the overview of the IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan. IPv6 Promotion Council was established in October 2000. It's a non-profit and non-governmental organisation. We have 170 members. We hope that the use of IP technology or infrastructure will progress in each of this and it makes society more happy, not only in Japan. We believe that IPv6 will solve the problems of their business or their society. Through IPv6, we help create and maintain a convenient IT environment for all Japanese people.

This figure shows the organisation of our council, the chairperson in Jun Murai of Keio university. Our current council has some working groups, such as IPv4-IPv6 co-existence working, certification working, and the digital information appliance platform working, and so on.

Finally, I will conclude my presentation of the deployment in Japan.

Commercial IPv6 services for corporate and home users are available in Japan. Currently, services using closed networks have more advantages, and services that use IPv6 multicast technology are wider spread most. For the consumer, the IPv6 connectivity is getting closer, but there are neither attractive contents nor application and the one that becomes the first trigger is waited for.

On the other hand, in the field of building maintenance, networks and so on, the systems using IPv6 will spread rapidly and IPv6 introduction in the e-government system is favourable advanced. We will contribute to spread IPv6 at worldwide scale.

That's all. Thank you very much for your attention.

APPLAUSE

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

So any questions or comments?

OK, thank you, Fukushima-san.

APPLAUSE

The APRICOT network

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

We have finished the scheduled agenda, but I'd like to add one more topic about our APRICOT network we are using, so could you introduce the APRICOT network? OK?

YUNG-TAI LIN:

Good afternoon, everyone.

This is my first time to present in English, so please be patient.

Because someone told me maybe you are interested in about learning the topology in this meeting place, so we are to brief introduce for you.

In this meeting place, we have router connects to IPv4 network and we have another two Juniper routers with an IPv6 function on it and we are use IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel to connect back to our HiNet IPv6 depot. And in the meeting place, we have two for LAN and the other three for wireless. And in the tool network, we have separate DNS server and DHCP server so you can connect to Internet just by your network cable. And for satisfy the IPv6, to satisfy the request for IPv6 allocation in this morning, we set up another router to directly to have an ITPT function and it's a Cisco 72 assist and that satisfied our IPv6 request. We divided a wireless network through that 3-bit LAN and that's netted for VLAN. So, I think we have one VLAN.

And you also, you also will see another two SS IDs. One is APRICOT VSIS and the other is APRICOT IPv6. And the difference over the two is that VNP only can support PC with the DHCP business protocol and VNC is for Windows because it can access the DNS queries by IPv6. So we set up a DHCP v4 to broadcast the DNS v4 address space for every PC. So PC we are sending the DNS query by IPv4 to the DNS server in this VLAN and with the DNS server, we are sending out the DNS query by IPv6.

And during IPv6, you can connect to IPv6 network by our NATP router. So, you may find some websites you cannot connect with normally, like Yahoo! Taiwan. I find some webpages I cannot access them normally. And it's our network topology in this meeting place, so if any questions.

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

OK, any questions or comments?

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

OK, just one question and one question. Thank you very much for providing such a very good network for this conference. Actually, from here, our site is very good and the run time to our shorter using IPv4 than IPv6. That's very interesting.

And one question - did you collect some statistics for the conference? For example, how many users used the IPv6 or the number of users that used IPv6 or something like these statistics?

YUNG-TAI LIN:

Sorry, we don't collect this kind of information. We only collect the traffic.

SPEAKER FROM THE FLOOR:

Thank you.

YOSHINOBU MATSUZAKI:

Any other comments or questions?

OK. Thank you, thank you.

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OK, again, housekeeping notes. We will have APNIC social event; so, if you don't know about the social event, please come up to here and get the instructions. It's not a ticket. You don't need a ticket but here's the instructions to attend the social event.

And the Helpdesk is available in Osmanthus Room, level B-2 and you can win some prize from APNIC and online survey will be available at the APNIC website. So please inform us about your feelings about this conference. OK, and I'd like to finish this SIG with big hands. So thank you. Thank you for your attention.

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