The SNMP standard was mainly used for the monitoring and fault management. Some other standards were defined to satisfy the need of configuration and AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) [RFC3539]. Those standards are COPS [RFC2748], WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Manager) [WBEM] for the configuration point of view, RADIUS [RFC3162] and Kerberos V [RFC1510] for the AAA.

COPS and WBEM are available for IPv6 networks. The protocols themselves and their data models or policies are already defined to be able to manage such networks. But it seems that no implementation of those standards exist.

RADIUS was defined upon IPv6 in 2001 (RFC 3162). But as experience has shown that it cannot be used in large scale network, a new protocol was defined by the IETF called DIAMETER. However, there is IPv6 support in the RADIUS implementations ‘Radiator’ and ‘FreeRadius’.

DIAMETER has been published as RFC 3588 [RFC3588]. An implementation already exists, from SUN Microsystems, based on the 7th version of the draft. A new one is under development within the IST Moby Dick project, defined upon the 10th version of the draft. An open source DIAMETER implementation project has also been started at SourceForge (for more information visit
http://sourceforge.net/projects/diameter/), which aims to produce a reference implementation of the DIAMETER protocol.

KERBEROS V was partly implemented upon IPv6 since its 1.2 version, by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.