Description:

FREENET6's TSP is a new initiative launched by Viagenie, a private company
in Canada involved in IPv6 since 1996, to facilitate a faster deployment
of an IPv6 Internet. The Internet is deployed worldwide over IPv4 so this
project's goal is large scale deployment of IPv6 by using configured
tunnels.

Configured tunneling is a transition method standardized by IETF to use
IPv6 in coexistence with IPv4 by encapsulating IPv6 packets over IPv4. Any
host already connected to Internet with IPv4 which has an IPv6 stack can
establish a link to the Internet IPv6.

Freenet6, developed by Viagenie in 1999/2000, was the first public tunnel
server service and one of the most used in the world to automatically
delegate one single IPv6 address to any host already connected to an IPv4
network over configured tunnel simply by filling a web form and running a
script. FREENET6's TSP represents another very important step to
accelerate the large scale deployment of IPv6 to everyone on the net.

Instead of a web interface to request configured tunnels and IPv6
addresses, FREENET6's TSP is a new model based on a client/server
approach. A protocol is used to request a single IPv6 address to a full
IPv6 prefix from a clien to a tunnel server according to the IPv6 broker
model. The protocol could be integrated directly into the operating system
to provide a service like DHCP but for requesting IPv6 addresses or
prefixes over an IPv4 network (Internet).

This package is part of PLF as it is released under
the Hexago Public License 1.0.