6bone
The 6bone was a testbed for
The original mission of the 6bone was to establish a network to foster the development, testing, and deployment of IPv6 using a model to be based upon the experiences from the Mbone, hence the name "6bone".
The 6bone started as a
The 6bone operated under the IPv6 Testing Address Allocation (see
3FFE::/16
IPv6 prefix for 6bone testing purposes.
At its peak in mid-2003, over 150 6bone top level 3FFE::/16
network prefixes were routed, interconnecting over 1000 sites in more than 50 countries. When it became obvious that the availability of IPv6 top level production prefixes was assured, and that commercial and private IPv6 networks were being operated outside the 6bone using these prefixes, a plan was developed to phase out the 6bone (see
The phaseout plan called for a halt to new 6bone prefix allocations on 1 January 2004 and the complete cessation of 6bone operation and routing over the 6bone testing prefixes on 6 June 2006. Addresses within the 6bone testing prefix have now reverted to the IANA.
Related RFCs
External links
- 6bone Legacy IPv6 Testbed at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-11-23)
- "List of 6bone prefixes". SixXS. 2017-06-15.