[February 16, 2005] UNH-IOL to provide IPv6 Forum Phase II 'IPv6 Ready' Logo testing Tweet DURHAM, N.H. --(Business Wire)-- Feb. 16, 2005 -- The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory has become the first testing organization to administer Phase II of the "IPv6 Ready" logo program launched last year by the IPv6 Forum. The Phase II logo program is a unified test specification designed to assure users that IPv6 is not only operational but ready for deployment in actual networks. Phase I of the program consisted of a basic self-test for minimum qualification, consisting of 107 test items. Phase II is roughly three times more extensive, consisting of close to 400 test scripts. Designed primarily by the Japan-based TAHI IPv6 test and verification program and the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), the Phase II test plan is a converged test specification incorporating input from organizations and individuals in Europe and Asia. Products that pass all of the test items in the Phase II program, including the self-test and interoperability items, qualify to display a gold IPv6 Ready logo. Products that can obtain the logo include hosts, routers, operating systems, protocol stacks and special devices such as embedded systems and special-use servers. The Phase II test plans cover IPv6 functionality including IPv6 address autoconfiguration, neighbor discovery, fragmentation, router and prefix discovery and Internet control messaging protocol version 6. While Phase I included the "ping" interoperability essential for communication between networked devices, the Phase II test specification includes remaining layer 2 address resolution and neighbor discovery specifications for IPv6, such as router advertising, error message processing and timing out between two or more devices. Phase II services are available immediately. "Phase I has proved to be a successful first step to implementing IPv6," said Erica Williamsen, UNH-IOL IPv6 Consortium Engineer. "Phase II nails down more of the corners and guarantees a higher level of confidence in IPv6 device operation and interoperability within actual networks. Phase II includes not only the 'musts' but the 'shoulds' in the standard - many of which are arguably more or less essential for going beyond baseline interoperability, neighbor discovery and overall network reliability." More information on the program and the process of obtaining the gold IPv6 Forum Phase II logo is available at the UNH-IOL Web site: http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/ipv6/index.html. About the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory Established in 1988, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is a non-profit organization that offers comprehensive interoperability and conformance-based testing through 19 technology-based groups, called consortiums. Test solutions created at the UNH-IOL offer a set of methods to increase interoperability through protocol operations, signaling, point-to-point and multi-system scenarios. For more information, visit the UNH-IOL IPv6 Consortium website at: http://www.iol.unhledu. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]