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Authors: Mario Morelli Jordi Palet Martinez David Fernandez Antonio Gomez Skarmeta

Main Goal and Background

• Goal of the draft: to describe the experience gained inside

the Euro6IX research IST project

– Indeed some text is needed to make clearer this goal

• Background: Euro6IX is a Pan-European IPv6-only network

implementing different functionalities and services, intended to be a pre-commercial trial for the European Telcos/ISPs.

– We called the nodes of the network as “Internet Exchange” based on a layer 3 infrastructure

Map of the Euro6IX network

Torino Paris Zurich Berlin London Lisbon Madrid

Murcia Bern Bretigny Lannion Aveiro Issy Caen Southampton

Viby

IPv6 IX Nodes IPv6 Networks Link Sponsors

TEF PT/TEF TI/SWISSCOM TI FT FT DT

34 Mbps IPv6 34 Mbps IPv6 Native Native Links Links

IPv6-IPv6TUNNEL

Description (1)

LHP1 LHPm … Value Added Services L3MF IX R R Long Haul Providers RC1 RCn … … R R … RP1 IXLC1 IXLCn … Regional Providers IXRC1 IX Customers RPk IXRCk …

Description (2)

• Three main players:

– IX – IX customers (e.g. Enterprises/Regional Providers) – Long Haul Providers (Provider Connectivity)

• Basic issues:

– IX provides addresses to its customers – Connectivity provision and IPv6 address assignment can be considered as separated issues:

• IX provides addresses to its customers
• Long Haul Provider provide physical connectivity

– If an IX customer wants to change its Provider Connectivity, it does not need to change its own addresses, as they have been assigned by the IX and not by

• LHP. It only will have to renumber if it changes the IX it is connected to.
• An IX customer gets an address space independently on the Long Haul Provider it uses

for the Long Haul Connectivity (useful for multihoming)

Next Steps

• Continue documenting the Euro6IX
• perational experience
• Feedback on the Mailing List from the WG

to evaluate if this experience is interesting for the WG and if it useful to be continued