Subject: IPv6 Wireless and Mobility Roundtable

From: Carl Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:39:33 -0800 (PST)

IPv6 Wireless and Mobility Roundtable
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Connectathon 2000 is presenting a roundtable
discussion on IPv6 Wireless and Mobility as part of
the interoperability testing event this year. The 
roundtable is being cosponsored with the IPv6 Forum.

The panel will contain key individuals leading the
standards, research and/or implementation efforts in 
IPv6 and Wireless protocols. The discussion is open to 
anyone.  An email invitation is being sent out to the 
Mobile IP and IPv6 IETF working group members to 
participate in the audience.  Members of the audience 
will have an opportunity to ask questions to the panel 
on topics relating to IPv6 and Wireless.  

Round Table Discussion: IPv6 for Wireless and Mobility

The wireless cellular industry, particularly as it
prepares to deploy 2.5G and 3G services has been touted
as the "killer application" for IPv6. An obvious first
consideration to support this notion is the sheer number of
devices expected to come on-line via cellular technologies.
Predictions range from 600 million to 1 billion at the turn
of 4 to 5 years. Managing such a large and sudden influx
of devices connected via highly dynamic and unreliable
links is a task far more challenging than any the Internet
has faced to date.

The panel will explore how IPv6 can rise to the challenge,
as well as its remaining deficiencies. The following
features of IPv6 are some of the topics (but not limited to) 
that will be discussed at the roundtable:

- How can IPv6 streamline the routing infrastructure?
  IPv6 may have a better chance than IPv4 at 
  route aggregation, because of better initial
  assignment of address ranges and because of
  its provisions for renumbering. What remains
  to be done?
- Role of autoconfiguration for mobile networking.
  Mobile and wireless devices need to bootstrap all
  configuration information based on a secure token
  or on a cryptographic identity. The rest should
  be automatic. This is particularly relevant when
  considering other wireless technologies like
  Bluetooth that will need to interact with cellular,
  and in which the automatic configuration requirements
  apply to a collection of devices.
- How can IPv6 improve the security infrastructure?
  IPv6 does mandate IPsec, but how practical or 
  deployable is it in a cellular environment?
- Can Mobile IP simplify the future Internet? Does
  IPv6 provide other mechanisms to deal with mobility?
  Is it better handled at a layer other than layer 3
  (as in Mobile IP)?
- What is the interaction between IPv6 and cellular 
  telephone standards?
  There seems to be little more than lip service to IPv6
  on the part of next generation cellular consortiums
  like 3GPP, 3GPP2, and MWIF. Do they have valid concerns?
- Issues with supporting 500 Million IP Wireless Devices.
  What is the right addressing scheme that needs to be used?
  Are E.164 based addresses more appropriate for cellular
  than EUI-64 (more common with LAN hardware)?
- The IPv6 header is twice as large as its IPv4 counterpart,
  but routers should have a much easier time processing and
  forwarding packets.

The above issues apply to both the core network as well as
to the wireless devices.  Members of the audience can
raise any topic regarding IPv6 for Mobility or Wireless
at this roundtable.  Discussion is not limited to those
topics above.

Roundtable Panel

Charlie Perkins                      Robert Hinden
Nokia Research Laboratories          Nokia

Steve Deering                        Martin Korling
Cisco Systems                        Ericsson Research

Erik Nordmark                        Dave Johnson                  
Sun Microsystems                     Carnegie Mellon University

Brian Zill                           Jun-ichiro Hagino
Microsoft Research                   Internet Initiative Japan Inc. 
                                           
Mihai Mateescu
Mobile and Broadband Wireless Communications of GMD

Date, Time and Place

Monday, March 6, 2000
4:00pm-6:00pm

Crowne Plaza Hotel
282 Almaden Blvd
San Jose, CA
Phone # for Crowne Plaza: (408) 998-0400

The roundtable discussion will take place in the Crowne 
Plaza Hotel Ballroom.  You do *not* need to RSVP to attend 
the roundtable.  Just show up at the Crowne Plaza Hotel 
Ballroom.  There is no registration required for participating.
While admission to the IPv6 Wireless and Mobility roundtable is
free and open to all, only registered participants of Connectathon 
will be allowed into the testing halls.

Mobile IP Dinner
================

Some members of the panel will be joining Connectathon 
participants for dinner after the event at a local San Jose 
restaurant.  If you are interested in attending the dinner 
you *must* RSVP John Hird at [email-masked].  You will be 
responsible for the cost of your dinner.  More information 
about where the dinner will be provided at the roundtable 
event.  There will be limited room so the RSVP will be on 
a first come basis.

Ericsson Presentation
=====================

A presentation by Ericsson will be made on their Mobile IPv6 
research implementation immediately preceding the roundtable
in the same room (Crowne Plaza Hotel Ballroom) from 3:00pm-3:45pm.  
Conny Larsson of Ericsson Research will be presenting.  Again,
this is open to anyone.

Abstract of talk by Conny Larsson, Ericsson Research:

The Ericsson Mobile IPv6 implementation is a free implementation 
using FreeBSD and the KAME IPv6 implementation. It has been 
implemented as part of a research project at Ericsson. It consists 
of three parts; the Correspondent Node, the Home Agent and the 
Mobile Node. In addition, two applications are offered for 
configuration and retrieving statistical information.  This talk
will go over the Ericsson Research Mobile IPv6 implementation.

References:

www.connectathon.org  - for more information on Connectathon 2000.
www.ipv6forum.com     - for more information on the Worldwide 
                        consortium of leading Internet vendors, 
                        Research & Education Networks.

Connectathon 2000 participants performing interoperability testing 
for the Mobile IP, IPv6, Mobile IPv6 and/or DIAMETER protocols:

Apple Computer, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, 
Ericsson Inc., ENST (Ecole National Superieure des Telecommunications) Bretagne,
Hewlett-Packard Company, Hitachi, Ltd., IBM Corporation, KAME Project,
MCI Worldcom, Microsoft Corporation, NEC Corporation, Nokia Research Center,
SCO Ltd., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc., TAHI, Toshiba 
Corporation, University of New Hampshire, Mobile and Broadband Wireless 
Communications of GMD

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