Abstract: Operational Experience With IPv6

Panelists:
Bob Fink, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, moderator
Rob Rockell, Sprint
Greg Miller, MCI WorldCom
Bill Maton, Communications Research Center
Sean Mentzer, Qwest


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About the Presenters

Bob Fink is the Associate Department Head for Research for the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ESnet provides Internet services and advanced technologies to the US Dept. of Energy (DoE)-funded national research laboratories. Bob is a co-chair of the ngtrans IPv6 Transition working group of the IETF, and has led the 6bone IPv6 Testbed project since its inception. He also formed the international 6REN initiative to create worldwide IPv6 production network services by organizing Research & Education Networks worldwide, and led the project to create the first USA located-IPv6 peering point for production IPv6 networks (the 6TAP).

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As a backbone engineer with Sprintlink, Rob Rockell deployed IPv6 first as a toy, and second as a means to provide more valued service to the research-focused segment of the Sprint customer base. Testing has been done with Cisco, Bay, Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft platforms.

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Sean Mentzer's group at Qwest has been working for the last four months on setting up a nationwide v6 test network alongside the company's v4 production network. He focuses mainly on router configuration and testing.

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William F. Maton is the Head of Corporate Network Services and the CA*Net 3 GigaPoP operator for the Communications Research Center (CRC) in Ottawa, Canada. William first installed an IPv6 router at CRC in September 1998 to start tinkering with the protocol, and over time has been deploying an IPv6 network for the benefit of CRC's researchers and its GigaPoP clients. William has also been rolling out dual-stacked systems for testing and operational use.

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Greg Miller is the Director of Advanced Internet Technology at WorldCom. Greg's group is responsible for engineering and operating the vBNS network and for developing advanced IP services. In 1998, Greg designed and implemented a nationwide native IPv6 service on the vBNS backbone.

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