IPv6 R&D activities in WIDE Project

The WIDE project, www.wide.ad.jp, is a research consortium among industry and academia. WIDE project consists of more than four hundred active researchers from more than hundred private companies and from more than forty universities. The WIDE project operates the nationwide R&D testbed, which is connected with many other R&D testbeds, and the NSPIXPs, that are the largest IXes in Japan. The main focus of WIDE project has been IPv6 technology and has established IPv6 testbed since 1998. Basically, all of R&D activities in WIDE project are based on the IPv6. This paper describes the overview of WIDE project's IPv6 R&D activities, such as KAME/USAGI/TAHI/Nautikus6 projects.