Hi, I promised earlier that I would try to organize a tutorial regarding IPv6 for the next RIPE meeting. After sending them a request, Marc Blanchet and Florent Parent, both at Viaginie Inc., CA, were willing to give such a tutorial. The tutorial is scheduled for tuesday, May 5. Attached below is a description. David K. --- ============================================== IPv6 primer IPv6, the next generation IP protocol, is designed to improve scalability, security, ease-of-configuration, and network management. The tutorial will give a brief overview of IPv6 protocol including address architecture, autoconfiguration and management (DNS, routing). We will also discuss about the transition mechanisms have been designed to ease the upgrade to IPv6. An overview of the configuration for routers and workstations with examples will be given: Cisco, FreeBSD, Sun, Windows NT, as well as the Merit MRTd. The tutorial will go over the different steps required to get connected on the 6BONE, including address configuration, routing and the 6BONE registry. The tunnel server is a service that provides a simple way to get connected to the 6BONE. The architecture of the server and examples will be presented. A description of the 6REN initiative, an IPv6 transit service, and the 6TAP project, a service for interconnecting early IPv6 networks, will be presented. This tutorial is not focused on the theory behind the protocol but more on the practical considerations for using and deploying IPv6, so the intended audience is tcp/ip engineers, architects and network admins that want to understand IPv6 and to be able to deploy it. The tutorial will be presented by Marc Blanchet and Florent Parent, both at Viaginie inc., a consulting firm working on network architectures, security and internationalization. Viaginie inc. is responsible with Dalhousie University of the deployment of IPv6 in Canada. Viaginie 6bone site has been on the 6bone since more than 2 years now, is one of the backbone sites and maintains IPv6 links with many international organisations ; it also runs the mirror of the 6bone whois server, the IPv6 mirror of the www.6bone.net, www.6ren.net sites. Viaginie also designed a tunnel server implementation available at http://www.freenet6.net. Marc Blanchet wrote a internet-draft on a flexible method for IPv6 address assignments, soon to be published as an informational RFC and is the author of the concept of the 6tap exchange. ---