Introduction to IPv6

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Introduction to IPv6 Government Initiative
ByKamaliah Mohd KamalMinistry of Energy, Water
and Communications
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Topics

• Introduction
• Why IPv6?
• Benefits of IPv6 for the people and country
• Government Initiative
• IPv6 Deployment in Malaysia
• Conclusion

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Introduction

• Malaysia is now in par and slightly ahead in IPv6
  research and deployment but there are lots of
  areas that still need to be covered.
• The government has established the National IPv6
  Council to provide leadership and strategic
  planning for IPv6 implementation in Malaysia.
  Under the 9th Malaysian Plan (2006-2010), IPv6 is
  one of the three technologies that the Ministry
  of Energy, Water and Communication (MEWC) will
  focus on, apart from sensor technologies and
  broadband.
• The Council has stated that all ISPs in the
  country are to be IPv6 enabled by end of 2006,
  e-Government by 2008 and the whole country by
  2010.

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Why IPv6? (Theoretical Reasons)

• only compelling reason more IP addresses!
• for billions of new users (Japan, China,
  Indonesia)
• for billions of new devices (mobile phones, cars,
  appliances,)
• for always-on access (cable, xDSL,
  ethernet-to-the-home,)
• for applications that are difficult, expensive,
  or impossible to operate through NATs (IP
  telephony, peer-to-peer gaming, home servers,)
• to phase out NATs to improve the robustness,
  security, performance, and manageability of the
  Internet

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Why IPv6? (Business Reasons)

• demand from particular regions
• Asia, EU
• technical, geo-political, and business reasons
• demand is now
• demand for particular services
• cellular wireless (especially 3GPP2 standards)
• Internet gaming (e.g., Sony Playstation 2)
• use is gt 1.5 years away (but testbeds needed
  now)
• potential move to IPv6 by Microsoft?
• IPv6 included in Windows XP2,
• Windows Vista is IPv6 enabale

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Benefits of IPv6 for the people and country

• Education Benefits
• Improve the quality of the internet for students
  to look for information
• E-learning would be made more efficient than ever
• School Net project to be improved in performance
  with the aid of IPv6

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Benefits of IPv6 for the people and country

• Financial Benefits
• PC Market Growth
• Countrys Economic Growth with IPv6
• Consumer Electronics
• Entertainment
• Communications
• ISP advantages
• E-Commerce growth
• Growth in 3G mobile devices

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Benefits of IPv6 for the people and country

• Technical Benefits
• End to End Security
• QoS Quality of Service Function
• Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• Better Support for mobility (MIPv6)
• Stateless Auto configuration support
• Does nor need ARP or NAT
• Most Importantly more addresses for everyone
  51028 addresses for each people in the world !!!

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Other Benefits of IPv6

• Server-less plug and play possible
• End to end, IP layer authentication encryption
  possible
• elimination of triangle routing for mobile IP
• other minor improvements
• quality of service (same QoS capabilities as
  IPv4)
• flow label field in IPv6 header may enable more
  efficient flow classification by routers, but
  does not add any new capability
• routing (same routing protocols as IPv4)
• except larger address allows more levels of
  hierarchy
• except customer multihoming is defeating hierarchy

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Why Malaysia needs IPv6 ?

• IPv6 offers Malaysia
• A new area to increase it competitiveness in the
  regions ICT sector
• To set itself at par with the advanced nations in
  the Internet which currently has a dominant share
  of Internet address space
• Paving the road to the use of the Next Generation
  Internet
• Creating new markets for mobile and cellular
  application
• The ability to be globally connected for every
  person

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Government Initiative

• IPv6 Council Establishment
• MEWC has set-up the NATIONAL IPv6 COUNCIL and had
  first meeting in Dec. 2004
• Objective to plan and implement IPv6 adoption
  in Malaysia
• Targets to be IPv6 enabled
• ISP by end of 2006
• E-Government by end of2008
• Malaysia by end of 2010
• Members MEWC, EPU, MOF, MAMPU, MOSTI, MCMC, Main
  ISPs/IASPs (telcos Jaring)

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Government Initiative

• NAv6 Centre Establishment
• Established in March 2005
• Spearhead the nations RD in IPv6
• Execute its functions in RD, Monitoring Audit,
  Awareness and Promotion, Human Resource
  Development
• Detailing the IPv6 Vision and Roadmap for the
  nation

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Government Initiative MyICMS 886 STRATEGY
Malaysias drive forward in the delivery of
advanced information, communications and
multimedia services from 2006 through 2010
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Government Initiative MyICMS 886

• IPv6 is expected to be an integrator for all the
  other service and infrastructure development
• It will help boost internet growth for broadband
  services and 3G communication networks
• Supports the other infrastructure in terms of
  providing better internet security and quality of
  service
• Improved end to end connectivity will boost the
  market of online entertainment and gaming
• It will be known as one of the fundamental steps
  to take our Internet into the Next Generation
  Internet

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Government Initiative

• Malaysia Technical Standard Forum Berhad (MTSFB)
• Main Objectives
• to actively promote a co-operative environment to
  address in a timely manner national or
  international issues involving technical
  standards, technical codes and development of
  operational guidelines for Malaysian
  Communications and Multimedia Industry
• establish and maintain technical standards,
  technical codes, network interoperability and
  operational issues affecting the Malaysian
  Communications and Multimedia Industry.
• develop, recommend, modify, update and seek the
  registration of technical codes from time to time
  for the Communications and Multimedia Industry
• monitor technical code compliance and administer
  sanctions for breaches of the technical codes
• To develop a set of action task to promote and
  create awareness on IPv6 applications.

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IPv6 Deployment in Malaysia

• Research Networks
• MANIS
• MYREN
• Commercial Network
• My6
• MEWC Initiatives
• Pilot Project
• Roadmap
• Awareness Program

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MANIS (2000)

• 6 Univs are peering with Manis to access to
  IPv6

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MYREN TOPOLOGY
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MYREN TOPOLOGY
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My6

• A Malaysian industry initiative to establish a
  joint IPv6 network interconnectivity for the
  purposes of conducting a trial and exploring the
  next generation IP services in Malaysia.
• Members
• JARING,
• MAXIS,
• ARCNET,
• DIGI,
• CELCOM,
• TM,
• TIME

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MEWC INITIATIVES- Pilot Project

• Objectives
• To provide a detail guideline for a proper IPv4
  to IPv6 transition of Government Agencies
  networks
• To implement IPv4 to IPv6 transition in MEWC and
  MAMPU as a pilot project
• Duration September 2007 May 2008

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MEWC INITIATIVES- Pilot Project
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MEWC INITIATIVES- Roadmap

• Objectives
• To develop a national framework document for the
  IPv6 roadmap for Malaysia that will be referred
  to by all government agencies, industries and
  research institutions in the country. It will
  also promote and ensure a scheduled adoption of
  IPv6 in Malaysia.
• Duration January August 2007

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MEWC INITIATIVES- Awareness

• Series of seminar, workshop, road-show, and
  training
• Objectives
• To provide extensive awareness in Malaysia as
  well as in international level. By providing
  awareness to important commercial segments we
  expect an active community can be formed as a
  platform for sharing the knowledge and expertise
• Duration January 2007 Dec. 2009

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Conclusion

• The transition towards IPv6 is inevitable and the
  whole country should start preparing toward the
  transition plan.
• To ensure a scheduled adoption of IPv6 in
  Malaysia, involvement of all stakeholders
  including government agencies, industries and
  research institutions is required.

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IPv6 Roll out
End of 2006
By 2008
By 2010
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