Moonv6 progress report Service providers have gone beyond the basics of seeing if IPv6 works in the lab to seeing if it works in their networks, says Ben Schultz, managing engineer at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab, which administers the Moonv6 test bed. He charts the IPv6 test bed’s progress:
Fall 2003	•	Host-to-router interoperability.
	•	Simple applications (Ping, File Transfer Protocol) testing.
	•	Basic router interoperability.
	•	Basic transition mechanism testing.

Spring 2004	•	Detailed testing of IPv6 routing protocols.
	•	QoS demo.
	•	Basic IPv6 firewall testing.
	•	Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet demo.
	•	Basic multicast routing testing.

Fall 2004	•	Basic testing of DHCP and DNS.
	•	More advanced IPv6 firewall testing.
	•	Access policy testing.
	•	Basic transition mechanism testing.

Spring 2005	•	Application demo for streaming unicast and multicast media.
	•	DNS and DHCP testing and functionality demo.