IPv6 Articles, Reports and Papers

• IPv6 and the Future of the Internet - an ISOC IPv6 Briefing Paper from Brian Carpenter (IBM). (July 2001)

• ETNO IPv6 Addressing Position Paper (PDF) - the European Public Telecommunications Network Operators Association supports the initial allocation of /29 subTLAs rather than /35. (May 2001)

• EU-funded IPv6-related Projects (PDF) - a 30-page report compiled by Joao daSilva of the European Commission outlining a number of European projects that are currently working on IPv6 technology. (March 2001)

• Third Generation Mobile Comminication - this European Commission document states that "Full potential of 3G services cannot be exploited without the gradual introduction of the new Internet Protocol (IPv6). A fully-fledged mobile Internet, where each mobile terminal will have an Internet address requires a much larger address space than the current IPv4 can cater for. In time, Europe risks to run out of Internet addresses if co-ordinated action is not taken now. The European Commission will invite Member States to work together with industry in an ad hoc group, which should provide proposals by the end of 2001 to accelerate the introduction of IPv6. The Commission will also increase support for test beds through its IST and TEN Telecom programmes." (March 2001)
  

• Japanese Prime Minister demands IPv6 Research - in his policy speech to the 150th session of the Diet the Prime Minster stated "We shall also aim to provide a telling international contribution to the development of the Internet through research and development of state-of-the-art Internet technologies and active participation in resolving global Internet issues in such areas as IP version 6 (IPv6). (September 2000)
  

• Mobile IPv6 (PDF) - an IPv6 Forum white paper by Wolfgang Fritsche and Florian Heissenhuber of IABG, Germany on the subject of mobility support for the next generation Internet. (September 2000)
  

• Home Networking with IPv6 (PDF) - an IPv6 Forum white paper by Brian Haberman (Nortel) and George Tsirtsis (BT) that shows how IPv6 will become a crucial enabler of the home networking market. (August 2000)

• Advanced Networking for Telemicroscopy - a paper that describes the potential use of IPv6 in trans-Pacific networking applications. (July 2000)

• Implementation and Deployment of IPv6 Multicasting - an INET2000 paper describing the IPv6 multicast work that has been undertaken on the Japanese WIDE network using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM). (July 2000)

• The Evaluation of High-Speed Multicast Data Transmission over IPv6 Networks - another INET2000 paper that this time discusses robustness of multicast routing and the performance evaluation of multicast service using an experimental network. (July 2000)

• Project JB: Advanced IP Version 6 Research and Educational Network - Project JB is a joint, high-performance, nationwide network research project in Japan. This project consists of several network computing research projects, such as the WIDE Project, the ITRC Project, the Cyber Kansai Project, and so on. (July 2000)

• The 8+8 IPv6 Addressing Architecture - a paper from INET 2000 that suggests a framework that facilitates to solve, reduce or simplify significant IPv6 issues regarding multihoming, mobility, renumbering, and the preservation of active TCP and UDP sessions under those three scenarios. (July 2000)

• Cisco Statement of Direction (PDF) - the roadmap for commercial IPv6 support in IOS falls into three phases, as described in this document. (June 2000)

• EU Council Report: Cheaper and faster Internet access - this European Commission Information Society report encourages the rapid deployment and use of IPv6. (June 2000)

• IPv6 Tutorial - a guide to IPv6 by Jordi Palet Martinez which has also been published in "Comunicaciones World". Currently Spanish language only. (June 2000)

• IPv6: The Solution for Future Universal Networks (PDF) - a paper by Sathya Rao presented at Networking 2000 in Paris. Also available on the 6INIT site in slide format. (May 2000)

• Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament: COM(2000)202 (PDF). The need for IPv6 to enable mobile comms is highlighted: "Currently there is evidence that the requirements for IP addresses for mobile communications are about to accelerate significantly. This would argue, both for more efficient use of existing IPv4 address blocks, and for early introduction of the next generation of IPv6 addresses based on 128 bit numbers." It also states the the Commission will "encourage the timely transition to IPv6, particularly within the European institutions and the public administrations in the Member States". (April 2000)

• EU Commission report IP/00/355 - an EU report on Internet management recommends "a shift from addresses based on numbers that are 32 bits long (IPv4) to address protocol based on 128-bit numbers (IPv6) so as to make room for far more Internet addresses and uses". (April 2000)

• IPv6 Addresses: Come and get'em - Stardust's Scott Mace explains how production IPv6 addresses are available now. (April 2000)

• Understanding IP Addressing: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know - A 3Com Technical Paper by Chuck Semeria on IPv4 addressing and CIDR. The paper gives an insight into the addressing issues acting as a driving force for IPv6. (2000)

• Renewing the Net - Sun Microsystems' Greg Papadopoulos explains how IPv6 will enhance the online world. "We're committed to working with the industry to deploy IPv6 as the solution for tomorrow's demands on the Internet." (2000)

• A Guide to the Introduction of IPv6 in the IPv4 World - a good starting overview for IPv6 transition and integration issues. (March 2000)

• IPv6 Around the World - Jordi Palet Martinez takes an all-round look at the status of IPv6 as we enter the new Millennium. (March 2000)

• Enter IPv6 - Stardust's Scott Mace looks at the future for IPv6. (February 2000)

• How to Join the 6bone
  If you want to get running with IPv6, the 6bone is a logical place to hook up to. This guide explains how to do it. (February 2000)

• IPv6 DNS Setup Information
  This page gives some guidelines on how to properly setup DNS in support of IPv6. Within the examples, the important items are hyperlinked to the relevant portion of text explaining them. (January 2000)

• The Next Version of the Internet Protocol - IPv6
  Pete Loshin answers many questions concerning the new Internet Protocol. (1999)

• The Case for IPv6
  An IAB draft document based on an earlier white paper written by Bay Networks. Draft version 6. (December 1999)

• EU consultation document backs IPv6
  Future EU funding will promote IPv6 testbeds. (December 1999)

• IPv6 @ Stardust TalkRadio
  Latif Ladid on the coming IPv4 address shortage and the US IPv6 Forum summit. (December 1999)

• DoD Joint Technical Architecture (JTA) Version 3.0
  This DoD standards document refers to IPv6. (November 1999).

• FreeUNet: Disruptive Technology IP Network Research Platform
  BT's test lab at Adastral Park features IPv6 equipment. (1999)

• IPv6 in the Sky
  Eurocontrol evaluate IPv6 for Aeronautical Telecommunications. (1999)

• IPv6 Deployment Interview
  Latif Ladid queries Jim Bound about the deployment of IPv6. (July 1999)

• Vint Cerf's IPv6 Vision
  Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf on IPv6. (July 1999)

• US Navy ITSG'99 (2.8MB PDF) - The US Navy Information Technology Standards Guidance document. References to IPv6 include page 136: "IPv6 is the next generation of Internet Protocol and will be introduced incrementally into the Internet over the next several years. IPv6 incorporates the Multicast IP features as well needed security features. The Naval infrastructure should incrementally evolve toward IPv6..." (April 1999)

• NATO NOSIP'98 Strategy
  NATO's procurement recommendations make reference to IPv6. In section II-6 the report says "In comparison to the last version of NOSIP, the approach has changed: In the case of connectionless data transfer the target architecture was changed. In the former version only ISO TP4/CLNP was recommended, now IETF TCPng/IPv6 is recommended." (1998)

• Joint Technical Architecture - Army
  This US Army document contains a review of relevant standards for military use and includes reference to IPv6. (December 1998)

• IP Crossroads
  Martin McNealis, IP Product Line Manager for Cisco Systems, discusses reasons to migrate to IPv6. (July 1998)

• IPv6 Support in Unix Sockets
  An article by the Open Group.

• IPv6: The New Internet Protocol - a white paper by William Stallings.

• Internet Protocol Version 6 and the Digital UNIX Implementation Experience - an old but interesting paper from Compaq.