APNIC IPv6 Transit Exchange

APNIC is facilitating the adoption of IPv6 in the Asia Pacific with an IPv6 transit exchange..

Want to know more? read on...

Overview

APNIC is facilitating IPv6 adoption in the Asia Pacific region with an IPv6 Transit Exchange.  This will allow APNIC to support  IPv6 and at the same time expand IPv6 awareness, use, and understanding of IPv6 in the Asia Pacific region.  The IPv6 Transit Exchange is a Research and Development effort and will continue to run for as long the participants require the service; however, a horizon may be set when commercial providers offer native IPv6 services in a commercial relationship.

APNIC will additionally advertise prefixes and negotiate  peers for both 2-byte and 4-byte Autonomous System numbers (AS) to IPv6 neighbours of this service.

The  preference for the IPv6 exchange is that is an MLPA style service. That is, we will re-advertise all routes presented to us. And the more routes you are willing to advertise the better! As such, any organizations willing to offer full transit will be greatly appreciated.

Joining APNIC

To become a participant, an organization just has to follow these steps:

1. Tell us your IPv4 endpoint address in order to establish an IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel to 202.12.29.68
2. APNIC will assign the IPv6 /126 tunnel addresses. (other prefixes may be negotiated depending on vendor limitations)
3. md5 passwords for the BGP session are optional, but recommended. We ask the new participant to establish the md5 string.
4. Establish a BGP peering session with the our side of the tunnel, our AS is 38610.
5. Tell us the IPv6 prefixes you will be advertising to us.

 To aid in traffic engineering and route selection, APNIC will add a community string to the participants' advertised routes and pass that to all other participants based on the following average ping time to the IPv6 endpoint from the exchange:

• under 100ms - 38610:100
• under 350ms - 38610:350
• anything over 350ms - 38610:800 These strings are advertised to all participants and it would be their decision on how they wish to preference routes received via their BGP session.

What is the process?

• To join the IPv6 transit exchange, email the following details to peering at apnic dot net with the subject line "IPv6TE request":

1. Contact name
2. Contact email address
3. Contact phone number
4. Ipv4 tunnel endpoint
5. md5 string (optional)
6. participants AS number
7. your ipv6 prefixes

• APNIC will provide the participant with:

1. The assigned tunnel IPv6 addresses
2. The community we are applying to their routes based on ping times

and then negotiate the remainder of the peering via email with the participant