Intro
by
Alex Lightman, Publisher
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We are moving from summer to fall – and fall
is a fitting word to describe the events during and
after Hurricane Katrina. We fell. Now we have to get
back up. Part of fixing the current situation is improving
our ability to sense exactly and precisely when things
– especially big things like dams, bridges,
and levees – are going to break, and our ability
to communicate. Below you will find an article on
how IPv6 can make a difference in preparing for the
next disasters, especially in the area of sensornets
and first responder communications interoperability.
We also have our first interview, with Dr. Kilnam
Chon of Korea. We offer an article on IPv6 security
from Chuck Sellers of NTT/Verio that includes discussion
of NAT, a topic that gets a surprising amount of attention
year after year and is probably the single most controversial
aspect of IPv6 among the (ever fewer) naysayers. IPv6
migration is the focus of the article by Brian Gottbetter
and Mark Bath of Global Crossing. Global Crossing
is emerging as a powerful force within the IPv6 community,
and is starting to share more of the insights gained
from its years of internal work with IPv6. I'm grateful
to NTT and Global Crossing because, while there are
hundreds of telecommunications companies that will
be seeking to profit from IPv6, these two practical
visionaries were the ones to support the Coalition
Summit for IPv6 – which attracted IPv6 emissaries
from 30 countries.
We are pleased to announce that, as a result of the
capital and other capabilities brought about by the
acquisition of IPv6 Summit, Inc. by Innofone, we are
now expanding our offerings, as listed in an article
below.
We are honored that so many of our past sponsors
have indicated interest in the upcoming US IPv6 Summit
2005, which will be held Dec. 7-9, at the Hyatt Regency
in Reston, Virginia. There are only four gold sponsorships
remaining – please contact us soon if you are
interested in exhibiting.
The hearing on IPv6 leadership chaired by Congressman
Tom Davis (R-VA) and the OMB guidance (covered in
the July and August issues of 6Sense, respectively)
have both increased the interest of large companies
and the financial community in IPv6-related applications.
We hope you will join us in December and continue
to build the capabilities of the IPv6 community.
Sincerely,
Alex Lightman
Publisher, 6Sense Newsletter
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IPv6,
Sensornets, and Interoperability for First Responders:
Federal Internet Leadership and Investment is Essential
for Improved Response Capability at All Levels of
Government
By Alex Lightman
CEO, IPv6 Summit, Inc.
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“Katrina exposed serious problems in our
response capability of all levels of government and
to the extent that the federal government didn’t
fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want
to know what went right and what went wrong.”
– President George W. Bush, Sept. 13, 2005.
During 9/11, a NYPD helicopter circling the World
Trade Center warned that the South Tower was about
to topple, but the report never got to the firemen
– the radios were incompatible. Interoperability
cost good men their lives, but the radios still aren’t
compatible.
Four years and hundreds of billions of dollars of
deficit spending, the situation nationwide has changed
very little. Although considerable funding has been
sent to many of the 60,000 first responder organizations
in the U.S. as part of the massive investment in homeland
security, those organizations have not managed independently
to come up with a common communications protocol to
share life-saving data, a common way to train and
simulate events BEFORE they occur, or a common way
for leaders to hook up in the crisis area and coordinate
their efforts. The result is extra deaths, extra billions
in disaster costs, and extra bad publicity for the
U.S. in front of its allies and its enemies.
Some of the responders, such as Lt. General Russel
Honore, the head of Task Force Katrina, have shown
great leadership and have established informal communications
lines by tirelessly traveling by helicopter around
the area and personally keeping in touch with the
many agencies that have gone into action. But the
fact that, “The civilian infrastructure has
been washed away,” according to Lt. Gen. Strock,
the Commander of the Corps of Engineers, makes the
communications task a very difficult one. There is
no mobile system that could be quickly inserted to
serve as a replacement and provide a common means
to communicate for civilian and military first responders,
and no provision at this time to develop or build
one.
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ENTIRE ARTICLE
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IPv6, An Enhanced Security Network Protocol
By
Chuck Sellers
CISSP, Senior Product Engineer, Verio Network Services
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Looking back, security precautions were not thought
about in the development of IPv4 and have continued
to be a challenge for application developers since
then: IPsec was an afterthought, and Network Address
Translation (NAT) - which has been widely deployed
to solve the address depletion problem and for perceived
security benefits - makes true end-to-end, secure
applications extremely difficult to deploy. The integration
of secure point-to-point networking is one area that
today holds great promise for the IPv6 "killer
app" and is expected to help drive wide spread
consumer adoption.
IPv6 solves the IPsec and NAT dilemmas. Since IPsec
is designed into the v6 protocol, the need for NAT
is eliminated, opening up a new networking paradigm
currently not on the radar screen in the v4 world.
NAT was first defined in RFC 1918 to reduce the consumption
of IPv4 address space, a task that it fulfilled well.
However, NAT was not designed to and does not provide
security. NAT functions more like pseudo-privacy in
hiding the number of nodes behind a NATed network,
either behind a firewall or a router that maps the
private address to a publicly routeable address. NAT
breaks end-to-end connectivity by introducing additional
hop(s) or node(s) (i.e. gateways) in the data path.
NAT violates the IP architecture that states that
every IP address uniquely identifies a computer/node.
These NAT gateways typically rewrite the IP headers
to masquerade systems on the internal network. If
a NAT device (e.g. typically a firewall) breaks, all
connections are lost.
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Korea: An Emerging IPv6 Superpower
Interview
of Dr. Kilnam Chon by Alex Lightman
Publisher, 6Sense Newsletter
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In the year and half since we've published
6Sense we've used articles as our sole means
of communicating IPv6. In the interest of getting
wider exposure, and allowing for tighter focus on
key issues, people, and places, this month we begin
our first interview series. Our first IPv6 expert
is Professor Kilnam Chon, who was a featured speaker
at our Coalition Summit for IPv6 last May, and who
was kind enough to be my primary tutor about the Internet
miracle of Korea.
While many in the U.S. cling to the idea that the
U.S. still has 50% market share of global IPv4 traffic,
with half of that (25% of the world) in Virginia,
Dr. Chon makes a surprising observation. He told me
in Seoul (at the IPv6 Summit) there was about 10 terabits/second
of IPv4 traffic, and that the U.S. and Korea each
had about 1 terabit/second, or 10%, of total traffic.
However, the U.S. has a $12 trillion GDP, while the
Republic of Korea has a $700 billion economy.
Also surprising was his assertion that there were
80 full-time government employees working on the IPv6
transition in Korea. If we adjusted this for GDP,
that would be the equivalent of 1,370 full-time U.S.
government employees. The best estimate that I've
heard is that there are about 21 full-time U.S. government
workers on IPv6...
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ENTIRE ARTICLE AND INTERVIEW
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IPv6 Migration Considerations
By Brian Gottbetter, Director of IP Product
Management and Mark Bath, IP Product Development Engineer
Global Crossing
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One of the early considerations of an IPv6 migration
should be how to implement IPv6 packet forwarding
and routing methodology. All edge devices in the network
will need to be dual stack enabled (this means running
an IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stack on the router in parallel).
But ask yourself, does the core of the IP network
need to be IPv6 enabled? If a tunneling mechanism,
such as 6PE (the ability to forward IPv6 traffic via
MPLS), or some form of IPinIP tunneling such as GRE
is used, the core of the network will not need to
be IPv6 aware, thus negating the need for the core
network to be implemented in a dual stack configuration.
There are numerous reasons why a tunneled solution
might be of an initial advantage. Deployment of anything
new needs to be controlled, and its impacts on existing
network services considered. The careful deployment
of a few dedicated IPv6 access devices using an IPinIP
tunneling mechanism through the core enables a very
controlled implementation. It allows the business
to gain operational experience of running and managing
an IPv6 network without impacting the IPv4 service
offerings of the network. Such a solution also permits
additional testing, namely resolving any bugs and
problems with the router code or configuration standards.
Another benefit to the business of this initial deployment
is that Operational Support Systems used to run and
manage the network can be modified to support IPv6
networking.
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IPv6 Summit Now Offers IPv6 Transition
Services
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IPv6 Summit, Inc., organizers of the US IPv6 Summits
for the last three years and publishers of 6Sense,
now offers a wide range of training, consulting and
implementation support services to make the transition
to IPv6 a reality for your organization. We have assembled
a team of IPv6 experts and partners to provide a complete
set of solutions to your meet your IPv6 transition
planning and implementation requirements.
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ENTIRE ARTICLE
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The 9th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference
TELECOSM
2005: The Singularity is Here, September 26 – 28 | The Resort at Squaw Creek,
Lake Tahoe, CA
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The 9th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference
TELECOSM 2005: The Singularity is Here
September 26 – 28 | The Resort at Squaw
Creek, Lake Tahoe, CA
Hosted annually by Steve Forbes and George Gilder,
Telecosm is an exclusive gathering of investors, engineers,
entrepreneurs, public policy decision makers, media,
money managers, and top executives from the world's
leading tech companies. CLICK
HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Whether you're looking for allies or acquisitions,
clients or vendors, investments or investors, Telecosm
2005 promises to be a hotbed of ideas and opportunity.
Seven Telecosm 2005 speakers have new books out
this year! We're celebrating at the "TELECOSM
AFTER HOURS" speaker book-signing party, where
all Telecosm '05 attendees will receive FREE
COPIES of: Ray KURZWEIL's transcendent new book,
The Singularity is Near; Rich KARLGAARD's horizon-widening
work, Life 2.0; and Andy KESSLER's must-read,
How We Got Here. Plus, Chris ANDERSON (The Long Tail),
George GILDER (The Silicon Eye), and Dave MOCK (The
Qualcomm Equation) will also be available for discussions
signings. And, don't forget to bring along your
copy of Steve FORBES's latest, The Flat Tax
Revolution.
Telecosm 2005 will also feature: Dr. Scott
GOTTLIEB on investing in biotechnology; John CIOFFI
on the copper revolution; Steve GOLDMAN (Power-One),
Robert DOBKIN (Linear) and Peter HENRY (National Semi)
on digital vs. analog power management; David HUBER
(Broadwing) on the future of the global network; Klein
GILHOUSEN on Qualcomm; Paul McWIILIAMS on semiconductor
investment strategies; Carver MEAD on the role of
science in society; Greg PAPADOPOULOS (Sun Micro.)
on the emergence of display-over-IP; Rick RUTKOWSKI
(Microvision) on imaging systems; John RUTLEDGE on
the growth of China, Japan, South Korea, India, and
Taiwan; David TENNENHOUSE (Intel) on the future of
mobile; Terry TURPIN (Essex Corp.) on technology making
us safer; Josh WOLFE's nanotechnology buyer's
guide; and Many
Other Thought Leaders.
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