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"IPv6 Forum Creates First Published IPv6 Acceptance Standard With 'IPv6 Ready' Logo" - "Kick-off at the Global IPv6 Summit Madrid!" - "ARE YOU READY?"

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The IPv6 forum plays a
major role in bringing together industrial players to help in the
design, development and deployment of next generation Internet
Protocols. Unlike IPv4 that started with a small closed group of
implementers, the universality of IPv6 leads to a huge number of
implementations on a global scale. Interoperability has always been a
critical feature due to the large number of IPv6 implementations, it
is essential that a single symbol be created to identify products
that have been validated for true interoperability.
As a result, the IPv6 Forum has defined the first global logo
program called "IPv6 Ready." The IPv6 Ready logo will generate
confidence among users that IPv6 is currently operational and those
products with it have passed a set level of interoperability.The IPv6
test and conformance bodies and events building the backbone of this
program are, but not limited to:
University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab, www.iol.unh.edu/
TAHI Test Event: www.tahi.org
ETSI IPv6 Plugtest: www.etsi.org/plugtests
IRISIA: www.irisa.fr/tipi
Connectathon: www.connectathon.org
To this end, an international task force has been at work defining
the IPv6 Logo Program, chaired by Hiroshi Esaki, technically
supported by Cesar Viho at Irisia in France and Ben Schultz at UNH-
IOL in the US and Hiroshi Miyata (TAHI/Japan)
"Having the globally unique evaluation criteria for components to
build up the IPv6 infrastructure is very important. We, WIDE Project,
have initiated the TAHI project since 1998, so as to provide the
evaluation and validation of IPv6 protocol stack in each equipment.
It is my great honour to run the IPv6 Logo Program, that plays
important role for the global IPv6 deployment and operation." Hiroshi
Esaki, Chairman of the IPv6 Logo Program and Member of the Japan IPv6
Promotion Council and WIDE Project.
Jim Bound, Chair of the Nav6TF and IPv6 Forum Technical
Directorate said: "Platforms have been shipping production IPv6
implementations, as products for some time, this program will
reinforce that message in the market."
"IPv6 is ready! Now, are you ready?" challenges Latif LADID, Chair
IPv6TF, Internet Society Trustee and President of the IPv6 Forum.
The inauguration of the IPv6 Ready program will take place at the
Global IPPv6 Summit in Madrid 12-14 where the Multi-Site ETSI
Plugtests is organised. www.ipv6-es.com/03/in/plugtests.php
Background Outline & Profiles
1st Multi-site Remote IPv6 Interoperability event
Presentation
ETSI organize the IPv6 Plugtests events where engineers get
together to test the interoperability of their implementations
against each other. The 1st Remote IPv6 Plugtests will 'bring
together' companies and laboratories from the entire world.
For general information about the ETSI Remote IPv6
Interoperability Event, visit the Plugtests site
(www.etsi.org/plugtests/02UpcomingEvents/R-IPv6/RIPV6_home.htm).
Simultaneously with the Madrid Global IPv6 Summit 2003, the ETSI
Plugtests Interoperability Service will hold a "Multi-site Remote
IPv6 Interoperability event."
For the first time in such event, a real IPv6 environment will be
available, and a permanent IPv6 link from the pan-European Euro6IX
network will be used in order to offer remote testing and the
opportunity for companies to participate from a distance in this
Multi-site Remote IPv6 Plugtests.
The aim is to test in site or remotely issues as:
- IPv6 Core  
   - Mobile IPv6    
   - Transitions mechanisms (6to4, SIIT /NAT-PT)     
   - Routing     
   - Multicast     
   - IPsec
TAHI PROJECT
The TAHI Project is a joint effort designed with the clear
objective of developing and providing the verification technology for
IPv6. www.tahi.org/
The TAHI Project started October 1, 1998, and is managed by the
following organizations:
- WIDE Project     
   - The University of Tokyo    
   - Yokogawa Electric Corp.
Objectives: 1. Research & Development IPv6 evaluation technology
2. Support IPv6 Developers in the quality side
With prime tasks:
1 Research and develop conformance tests and interoperability     
     tests for IPv6.      
   2 Close cooperation between KAME Project and USAGI Project.      
   3 Open results and lessons learned of the project to the         
     public for FREE.       
   4 Hosting Ipv6 Interoperability Test Events
University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab,
The IOL's first mission is externally focused and is to provide
testing services for vendors of computer communications devices. The
IOL is involved in research and development work, but is mainly used
by a community of over 200 vendors to verify the interoperability
and/or conformance of their computer communications products. This
service of the IOL is performed through independent focused interest
groups in the lab which we call consortiums. The IOL currently has 14
consortiums in operation to test the following computer
communications technologies: 10-Gigabit Ethernet, ADSL, Bridge
Functions, DOCSIS, Fast Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet,
IPv6, iSCSI, MPLS, Routing, SHDSL and Wireless 802.11. The IOL also
offers contracted testing services in Ethernet (10Base-T).
www.iol.unh.edu/
The Interoperabilitiy testing will be also organized by the
partners of the IPv6 Ready Program in South Korea, China, Taiwan and
India. Details on these organizations and contacts will be published
on the web page.
For further information, please contact each specific project
coordinating team or their websites:
IPv6 Ready Program
Temporary Web Site:
www.irisa.fr/IPv6Logo/navbar/logo/programme.htm
Official web site (under construction) www.ipv6ready.org
Contact:
Hiroshi Esaki 
Email:  hiroshi@wide.ad.jp
Contact: 
Jim Bound 
Email:  Jim.bound@hp.com

Contact:

Latif Ladid
Email: latif.ladid@village.uunet.lu