IPv6 Forum India An Update Hemanth Dattatreya President IPv6 Forum India

Internet Enablers in India Policies – Easy ISP licensing – Access to under-sea fibre on the west coast – VoIP opened up from 1 April 2002 – Mobile phone companies provide access Competitiveness – About 300 ISPs licensed; 53 operational – Mobile phone companies join in Increased local access points – Cable, metro-ethernet, ISDN-BRI, dial-up

Updates … (as of Feb 2003) Many operators have rolled out SMS based applications – Cricket updates, dating services, weather info, astro etc GPRS services rolled out in major cities by – Orange / Hutch – Bharti / Airtel mobile CDMA 1x services rolled out nationwide by – Reliance Telecom – Tata Indicom MMS services to be rolled out soon – Bharti (?)

ERNET India Case Study

ERNET India – major POPs

ERNET India – remote reach via satellite

ERNET India – v6 readiness: Edge vs Core Core – No specific switching across the backbone (MPLS...) – All core routers IPv6 ready – Network Monitoring & Traffic Management ! – Provisioning Edge – Address allocation – Authentication & Accounting – Services – Mobility

ERNET India – v6 readiness: Servers Servers IPv6 ready Mobility suite testing Services testbed on Linux – Mobility ? Personal communication devices – How to handle them from an operator's perspective ?

ERNET India – v6 readiness: Conclusions Move to IPv6 : YES ! Move NOW to IPv6: Hmmmm ! IPv6 Ready: YES ! What more ? – Better operational understanding – Network monitoring & Management ? – Secure services – PKI ?

Incorporation as a non-profit society in Sep 2000 Inaugural Global Summit Jan 3-5, 2001 – 200+ participants, 50+ companies Formation of E&A Working Group (charter) – … and then many Q’s on Business Case October Interop event - 6 vendors An experiment: The CEO roundtable Global Summit 2002 Jan 23-25, 2002 CEO Roundtable: talk + panel discussion = Huge success IPv6 Forum India Quarterly Newsletter … we have come a long way

Global IPv6 Summit participants 40+ participants in the 3 rd successful CEO roundtable – Brief intro to v6 – Review of status of deployment WW – Open forum discussion on v6 – Evolution of consensus on immediacy of IPv6 deployment Workshop conducted on – operators (NOCs) – Application porting and migration

Student Community interaction & IPv6 Talks/seminars & ideas for projects Project work guidance Possible internships with companies

Student Community interaction & IPv6 (II) Results so far – Two worthwhile projects Prototype implementation of the LCNA draft on the ELKS kernel Implementation of the DHCPv6 Draft on Linux – Convert the DHCPv6 effort into a SourceForge project (?) sustain interest and coding efforts look for companies to take over the effort

Bangalore Linux Users Group IPv6 deployment under Linux Howto/how-did-you’s/local expertise Active local IPv6 user group (kickstarted June 2002)

6IG – IPv6 Interest Group User group dedicated to “hands on” issues of deployment Three meets so far (in Bangalore) – 6IG launch – FreeOS and IPv6: importance for deployment Demos (Linux and Cisco) Focuses on the strength of Indian IT industry – large technical talent pool

Bv6 – Bangalore Metropolitan Network Test network Hands-on experience for partners Deploy services & Test Test infrastructure like PKI Showcase Applications Security Interoperability Network, Applications Enable device testing (Simputer, other similar devices) IP & Copyrights issues !

Achievements Ministry of Communication & IT (MCIT) statement of endorsement Inter-fora participation & dialogue – IMTC – ISPAI – MAIT – CII – VSATI Others – ISOC briefing paper on Security & Privacy

The Year 2003 Plan + Target – Focus on Deployment Interact with and enable the government to formulate a strategy for v6 deployment Strengthen Inter-fora participation Cooperative efforts with the EU, TW, JP, US, KR, CN A local test network – Bv6 Sustain 6IG & Newsletter efforts Leverage the strengths of the Local Linux community & work with them – ISOC briefing paper on Porting IPv6 Applications

Questions ??