IPv6-readiness for cross-border services

"IPv6 does not change networking dramatically but offers the opportunity to get rid of some nasty restrictions introduced in the past."

C. Schmoll, U. Kaiser, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany)

"IPv6 traffic in the Internet is growing rapidly. So government services to citizens and business need IPv6 support to keep services available for everybody. In addition modern ICT systems require enabled IPv6 as a mandatory infrastructure service. So the implementation of IPv6 is without alternative in the internal networks also."

Martin Krengel, Citkomm (Germany)

"IPv6 transition is a process that will not be achieved over a night. Keep in mind that the earlier you start your IPv6 adventure, the more experience you will gain to manage your network properly."

Emre Yüce, Tübitak Ulakbim (Turkey)

"The deployment of IPv6 offers new opportunities for solving several of the actual bottlenecks of Internet: addressing, E2E communication, support of mobility and security."

Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia (Spain)

“Investing in the IPv6 transition is investing in the future.”

Gabriela Gheorghe, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

"GEN6 project demonstrates that public administration could have a leading role in IPv6 adoption. In the Czech Republic, 64 % of public administration bodies support IPv6 on their webservers, compared to the average of 23% in the entire .cz domain, which belongs among one of the most successful ones in IPv6 adoption worldwide."

Ondrej Filip, CZ.NIC (Czech Republic)

“The GEN6 pilots show how to successfully introduce IPv6 in governments. Feel free to check out the documentation and contact the project participants to share in their practical experience!”

Arjen Holtzer, TNO (Netherlands)

"During the 2014 elections in Germany, a production ready, IPv6-based Openstack Cloud established at the University of Luxembourg successfully delivered election results to German voters, a “World First” to pioneer the future of the open world of cloud computing!"

Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

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IPv6-readiness for cross-border services

This pilot will be build based on part of the results of the national pilots developed by Germany and Spain (see A3.1 and A3.2). The pilot will be also open to an active collaboration with the European Commission (DIGIT) in order to evaluate the transition to IPv6 of the sTESTA network and provide in collaboration with them strategies for IPv6 support on the LSP (Large Scale Pilots). We also expect that other national pilots could also be tested over the setup done by this activity, broadening the impact of the cross-border component across most of the project pilots and partners.

The pilot as a consequence will include among others the following results:

Identification the needed technical arrangements for the interoperability of the IPv6 transition national strategies.
Arrange with the Commission the active (IPv6 natively available) or passive (IPv6 not ready, so tunnels to be used) role of sTESTA in the pilot depending on its IPv6-readiness.
Prepare transition scenarios for allowing PEPs being IPv6 enable creating and IPv6 eID-related mechanisms for cross-border and cross-sector identification & authentication widely usable in EU for European e-ID authentication based on STORK and follow-up STORK2.0.
Prepare different transition scenarios with a mix environment of IPv4 and IPv6 clouds in the government tiers (national, regional, universities, …), and identification of a set of basic services provided by the participants in the pilot to be tested in the different scenarios.
Test the interoperability scenarios and compile a troubleshooting manual, roadmap of actions developed and guidelines.
Incentive the usage of IPv6 on public administration by means of learning by examples based on the experience on relevant European universities strategies to IPv6.

Participants in the pilot:

Consulintel (Spain)
Ministerio de Política Territorial y Administración Pública (MPTYAP, Spain)
Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
Fraunhofer (Germany)
Citkomm (Germany)