IPv6 Promotion Council
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DHCPv6 SWG
Objectives
This SWG is working on development of test specification and test tool to ensure interoperability between equipments implementing "DHCPv6 Protocols" that helps to autoconfiguration of network equipments.
Background
IPv6 Protocols contains functionalities to configure IP address and default router automatically. However, due to security or management reason, there still remains the requirement of autoconfiguration using DHCPv6. In addition, IPv6 does not contains the means to provide DNS configuration. Furthermore, Home network needs to be assigned IPv6 prefix with DHCPv6. It means the importance of DHCPv6 is increasing.
In this circumstances, it is required to clearly define the required DHCPv6 functiokns and develop the evaluation technique from neutral position.
Purpose
We develop the test specifications and tools to validate the equipment as a means to ensure interoperability between DHCPv6 server and client. The purpose of this activity is to promote the wide use of them, and to establish them as the international standard of test specification for the equipment.
More specifically, we aim for these specifications and tools to be adopted in "IPv6 Ready Logo Program" that is international activity to ensure the connectivity of IPv6 equipments.

Period
2006-04/2013-03(conclusion)
Products
  • 2007-04 : We developed the test specifications and tools. IPv6 Ready Logo Committee have been adopted as the basis for the test specification of IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 (DHCPv6).
DHCPv6 SWG main activity
    In the following events, we have cordinated the interoperability test and validated our test tools.
    • TAHI Interoperability Test Event by TAHI Project
    • ETSI Plugtest by ETSI
DHCPv6 SWG chronology
Organization
  • Successive chairman of SWG
    • 2006-04 : Hideshi Enokihara(Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
    • 2008-06 : Nobumichi Ozoe(Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
    • 2009-08 : Hiroshi Miyauchi(JATE)
    • 2010-10 : Hiroshi Miyata(Yokogawa Electric Corporation)
  • Member companies
    • Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    • JATE
Acknowledgment
We would like to express thanks to the following organizations for their cooperation.
  • IPv6 Forum
  • ETSI(FRANCE)
  • Connectathon(USA)
  • UNH-IOL(USA)
  • IRISA(FRANCE)
  • Chunghwa Telecom(TAIWAN)
  • TTA(KOREA)
  • BII(CHINA)
  • WIDE Project(JAPAN)
  • KAME Project(JAPAN)
  • USAGI Project(JAPAN)
  • TAHI Project(JAPAN)
Some part of this activity was supported by NICT(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

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