Section: Dissemination
Standardization activities
Participants : Jean-Marie Bonnin, Bernard Cousin, Gilles Guette, Laurent Toutain, César Viho.
The Armor team dedicates a significant effort toward standardization and certification in the telecommunications area. We participate in several working groups of the main telecommunication standardization institutes like the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), ETSI (European Telecommunication Standardization Institute), 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), etc. We are also very active in the main mailing-lists treating new generation networks and protocols. Several proposals of drafts and contributions to the definition of standards and RFCs (Request For Comments) have been published. Our research concerns mainly the IPv6 related protocols, IPv6 mobility (MIPv6), IPv4–IPv6 transition mechanisms such as DSTM (Dual Stack Transition Mechanism), small group multicasting [107] , [106] and ``Universal Mobile Telecommunications System''(UMTS). We have a long term activity on security issues of network layer mobility: security mechanisms of mobile IPv6, interactions between mobile IPv6 and IPsec/IKE, modern network access control (based on AAA) in a mobile environment, security of the DNS (DNSSEC) and its usage as a large scope PKI, secure two-space solutions for mobility and multi-homing, etc.
We also participated to the RFC 4033 on DNS security (see [9] ).
IPv6 Ready Logo Programme
The Armor team has also a major role in the world-wide certification process for IPv6 products launched by the IPv6 Forum, the ``IPv6 Ready Logo Programme''. For details, see http://www.ipv6ready.org . This project aims to provide the means needed to test existing IPv6 products to be deployed in the market. The Armor team leads the technical part of this Programme by defining the certification process itself, specifying required tests, and developing some of the interoperability tests needed. This work is done together with the IPv6 Forum, the ETSI in Europe, the WIDE-project in Japan and the TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association) in Korea.
