AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS PANEL (ACP)
WG I – Internet Protocol Suite – 6th MEETING
Montreal, Canada 17th – 20th March 2008
IANA Response
Presented by ACP Secretary
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From: Ray Plzak [mailto:
Sent: 28 January 2008 7:28 AM
To: Jonasson, Loftur
Subject: RE: Notice of Intent to Request a Global Block of IPv6 Addresses for Aviation
Dear Mr. Jonasson:
ARIN is very interested in meeting with you to discuss the technical and procedural details of your request for IPv6 address space and autonomous system numbers (ASN). We would be happy to come to Montreal to meet with you at your convenience.
In order to facilitate this meeting, we would like to ask that you come to this meeting with the detailed technical information and supporting documentation that will help us to assess your request. This information should include:
(1) the estimated number of aircraft to which allocations of IPv6 addresses and AS Numbers are planned;
(2) the list of nations involved;
(3) the number of AS Numbers needed and the technical justification to support these projected numbers;
(4) a preliminary network topology plan that includes expected internal and end-user site usage (which, for example, could be broken down by the number of /56s or /48s).
Please note that ARIN will be reviewing your request within the boundaries of existing policy and that there will be certain criteria and requirements that will need to be met before any Internet number resources can be issued. However, the above information should be a good starting point to begin a dialogue and get this process started. With regard to the other Regional Internet Registries, I have consulted my counterparts and they have agreed with the approach presented in this letter.
Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to working together with you on this project.
Warm regards,
Raymond A Plzak
President and CEO
ARIN
From: Jonasson, Loftur [mailto:
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:54 PM
To: Ray Plzak;
Cc: Nagle, Jim;
Subject: Notice of Intent to Request a Global Block of IPv6 Addresses for Aviation
To: Ray Plzak President, American Registry for Internet Numbers,
Subject: Notice of Intent to Request a Global Block of IPv6 Addresses for Aviation
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. One of ICAOs functions is to develop and adopt international standards concerning aeronautical air-ground and ground-ground communications in support of aviation.
ICAO has begun the design of a new global Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. This system will support Commercial Aircraft, Civil (private) Aircraft, Military Aircraft, Rotorcraft, and likely a coming generation of both Unmanned Commercial and Military Air Vehicles. The safety and reliability of air transport services around the world will depend on this system and its underlying aeronautical telecommunication network (ATN). The new ATN will be built on an IPv6 network layer. Draft ICAO Standards and Recommended practices for this network have been completed and will be formally adopted by ICAO in March 2008.
For the management of the global ATM networks, ICAO controls all address allocations and name assignments. This model is to continue with the next generation IP ATM network. Therefore ICAO issues this “notice of intent” to request a global block of IPv6 addresses and autonomous system numbers for aviation use only.
In order to support the seamless global Internet mobility services needed for safety of flight operations, and due to the organizational complexity of the aviation environment, we anticipate the need for a very large address allocation, likely in the range of the largest currently allocated (i.e. /19). It is expected that each aircraft node will be its own routing Autonomous System Number (ASN) with one or more ATM networks onboard and a number of air-to-ground network links always active. Further it is expected ICAO will require one or more ASN’s per nation and Navigation Service Provider (NSP) and that each of these ASN’s may support 1000 more individual site networks.
This next generation ATM network will be a closed network At some future date this network may be connected to the public Internet.
ICAO understands that our address request, both in our organizational status and in its global use, will fall outside existing registry processes and procedures. For that reason, ICAO requests the opportunity to have direct procedural and technical discussions with you , your counterparts at the other registries and your authority. We believe that these discussions would be mutually beneficial and would help assure the design of the most reliable and secure network to support worldwide air transport and travel.
Sincerely
Loftur E. Jonasson
Secretary ICAO Aeronautical Communications Panel (ACP)
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Loftur E. Jonasson
Technical Officer, Communications, Navigation and Surveillance, ICAO Air Navigation Bureau, CNS Section
Telephone: ++1 (514) 954-8219 ext 7130
Fax: ++1 (514) 954-6759
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