The following actions on applications and the like in the area of IPv6 are being or have been undertaken:

• The anonymous-FTP archive of SURFnet and NLUUG was enabled for IPv6 in the second quarter of 2002. See Figure 12-5 for the IPv6 volume transferred by this server.
• Four of SURFnet’s Stratum 1 Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers are up and running and serving time over IPv6.
• All of SURFnet’s three DNS server and three DNS resolvers are IPv6 aware as well as reachable over IPv6.
• Two Net News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) production feeders and three test feeders run IPv6 and have external peerings with Switch and Funet and other smaller peerings. In the test bed two news reader machines are used with IPv6 connectivity..
• The main web site of SURFnet1 is enabled for IPv6.
• Several experimental services like video streaming (unicast, multicast) and internet telephony (SIP) run over IPv6 today.
• All SURFnet services are available over IPv6, either native or through a tunnel.

For new application services that are being developed and for which equipment or software is procured, we asked the potential suppliers on their readiness for IPv6.