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diff --git a/net/freenet6/pkg-descr b/net/freenet6/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..820e4af904e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/freenet6/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Freenet6's TSP is a new initiative launched by Viagenie, a private +company in Canada involved in IPv6 since 1996, to facilitate a +faster deployment of an Internet IPv6. Internet is world-wide +deployed over IPv4, therefore this project has the main goal of +deploying IPv6 at a larger scale by using configured tunnels. + +Configured tunnel is a transitional method standardized by the IETF +to use IPv6 in coexistence with IPv4 by encapsulating IPv6 packets +over IPv4. Any host already connected to Internet with IPv4 and +having an IPv6 stack could establish link to Internet IPv6. + +Freenet6, developed by Viagenie in 1999-2000, was the first public +tunnel server service and one of the most used in the world to +delegate automatically one single IPv6 address to any host already +connected to an IPv4 network over configured tunnel simply by +filling a Web form and running a script. Freenet6's TSP is representing +another very important step to accelerate the deployment at large +scale of IPv6 to everyone on the net. + +Instead of a Web interface to request configured tunnels and IPv6 +addresses, Freenet6's TSP is a new model based on a client/server +approach. A protocol is used to request one single IPv6 address to +a full IPv6 prefix from a client to a tunnel server according to +the IPv6 broker model. The protocol could be integrated directly +into the operating system to give a service like DHCP but for +requesting IPv6 addresses or prefixes over an IPv4 network (Internet). + +WWW: http://www.freenet6.net + +- Edwin Groothuis +edwin@mavetju.org |