[sig-ipv6]IPv6 SIG report

[Kazu Yamamoto ($B;3K\OBI'(B )<kazu@iijlab.net>]

Hello guys,

On behalf of the IPv6 SIG chairs, I would like report the session of
IPv6 SIG in Seoul.

	IPv6 SIG [technical] 20 Aug 11:00 - 12:00

We had five INFORMATIONAL presentations:

(1) IPv6 Allocation Status Report, Guangliang Pan, APNIC

	APNIC reports IPv6 Allocation Status Report on every meeting.
	This time, it was reported that the number of US ISPs
	obtaining sTLA is rapidly increasing. This is probably because
	DoD announced support of IPv6. This is a very good news.

(2) Depreciation of site local address, Tomohiro Fujisaki, NTT Corp.

	Site-local addresses are now *deprecated* (kept defined, but
	not used anymore). Fujisaki-san explained the background of
	this decision and told "Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses",
	an alternative for site-local addresses. Since this addresses
	will be assigned to sites by RTRs, we RTRs guys should watch
	the activities in IETF.

(3) IPv6 ShowCase, N+I 2003 Tokyo, Kazu Yamamoto, IIJ

	N+I 2003 Tokyo is the largest network show in Japan and IPv6
	ShowCase is a special booth for IPv6 products / services. I
	explained some demonstrations from the booth. E.g. we can
	actually control a HDD recoder or an air conditioner in your
	home network by your cellular phone with IPv6.

	It seems that real deployment of IPv6 will be start in the
	home network area. Some ISPs in Japan have IPv6 ready
	backbones. Some devices in a home network is IPv6 ready. The
	current weakest link in Japan is home routers and ADSL
	carriers.

(4) Feel6, Alex Yeoh, Freebit

	Freebit is now having a field experiment called "Feel6'. To
	come over the weakest link above, Freebit is providing a free
	software which automatically make an IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel to
	a tunnel broker operated by Freebit. Many ISPs joins this
	experiment and about 80% IPv4 users in Japan can have a way to
	experience the IPv6 world, including operating a HDD recoder
	above.

(5) Japan Telecom IPv6 Application Trial, Tomohide Nagashima, Japan Telecom

	Japan Telecom released Chiervo, which is an "instant messenger
	like' Windows application. This software makes use of
	peer-to-peer environment of IPv6.

Since time was running out, we had no time to discuss the charter of
IPv6 SIG. We decided to discuss it on this ML if necessary.

If you have any opinions on the charter, please speak up.

--Kazu Yamamoto