IRNC: SP: 6Watch: Routeviews Infrastructure for Monitoring, Tracking and Diagnosing IPv6 Deployment

该项目旨在开发一个全球范围的IPv6监控系统，该系统将在全球范围内跟踪IPv6地址分配、IPv6路由公告、支持IPv6的网络的拓扑连接以及IPv6在数据平面中的可达性。这些指标中的每一个在跟踪IPv6部署方面都很有用，但控制平面指标和数据平面指标的正确组合有可能提供IPv6部署成功和障碍的全面概述。在监测IPv4基础设施方面吸取的经验教训将得到应用，但监测IPv6部署带来了许多独特的挑战和未知因素。在IPv6部署的早期阶段，提供可补充控制平面信息的数据平面信息尤为重要。该项目将开发一种创新技术，通过使用对DNS服务器的主动探测来测量IPv6的覆盖率和可达性。该方法利用了我们现有的DNS监控基础设施，并将允许我们在IPv6-IPv6和IPv6-IPv4方案中测试可达性。如果成功，研究结果将为面临特定测量问题的研究人员和运营商提供详细信息，并提供对寻找IPv6部署挑战的人有意义的全球视角。结果不仅将提供IPv6推广的最新快照，还将有助于确定促进IPv6部署的公开问题和潜在障碍。

This project is to develop a global scale IPv6 monitoring system that will track IPv6 address allocations, IPv6 routing announcements, the topological connectivity of IPv6-capable networks, and IPv6 reachability in the data plane, all at the global scale. Each of these metrics is useful in tracking IPv6 deployment, but the right combination of control plane metrics and data plane metrics has the potential to provide a comprehensive overview of IPv6 deployment successes and obstacles. Lessons learned in monitoring IPv4 infrastructure will be applied, but monitoring IPv6 deployment poses a number of unique challenges and unknowns. At this early stage of IPv6 deployment, it is particularly important to provide data plane information that can complement the control plane information. This project will develop an innovative technique that measures IPv6 coverage and reachability by using active probes to DNS servers. This approach leverages our existing DNS monitoring infrastructure and will allow us to test reachablity in both IPv6-IPv6 and IPv6-IPv4 scenarios. If successful, the results will provide detailed information for researchers and operators faced with specific measurement questions and also provide a global perspective that is meaningful to those searching for IPv6 deployment challenges. The results will not only provide the latest snapshot of IPv6 rollout but will also help identify open issues and potential obstacles to facilitate IPv6 deployment.