Re: [IPsec] [Nav6tf] Announcing the USGv6 Testing Meeting at NIST

["Davis, Terry L" <[e-mail]>]

Sheila

Like Latif said, THANK YOU!

As you know from the Seattle meeting with aviation industry representatives and the vendor community last fall, the Internet security protocols' interoperability is a key lynchpin in being able to ensure that the next generation of Internet enabled aircraft can establish secure communications in the global aviation environment.  Aviation continues to be concerned that current IPv4 versions of IPsec, IKE, and IKEv2 still have  vendor-to-vendor compatibility issues that would be difficult for us to overcome in a fully heterogeneous global environment.  In our environment, an aircraft is continually making and breaking security associations between different service providers and air traffic management entities as it transverses from country to country and continent to continent.  Thus our environment requires a very high degree of confidence in the ability of our systems to dynamically re-establish secure links with these new entities.

We would encourage that interoperability testing fully include versions of IPSec, IKE, and IKEv2 to ensure these issues do not continue with IPv6 on which the next generations of global air traffic management will reply on (ICAO Document 9896).  The testing ideally should demonstrate a vendor's system's ability to establish links with other vendors systems with minimal time and effort for setup and link customization as the ease-of-use and ease-of-deployment will be critical for a global aviation infrastructure.

Unfortunately I will be unable to attend as I will in ICAO meetings that week, part of which will focus on these same issues.

Take care

Terry L Davis, P.E
Boeing Technical Fellow

Aircraft Network and Security, Architecture & Strategy
Engineering Core - Avionics
Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Phone:  [phone]
Email:   [e-mail]

PS:  It would also seem likely that the other CI sectors would have similar IPv6 security interoperability needs.




> -----Original Message-----
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> LADID ("The New Internet based on IPv6")
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 7:04 AM
> To: 'Frankel, Sheila E.'; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
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> Subject: Re: [Nav6tf] Announcing the USGv6 Testing Meeting at NIST
>
> Thanks Sheila! Good to see you working on IPv6 so vigorously
> recalling our
> days of work on IPsec back in 99.
>
> I have Copied the North American v6 Task Force members and
> the IPv6 Ready
> logo program team.
>
> Cheers
> Latif
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of
> Frankel, Sheila E.
> Sent: 21 April 2010 14:46
> To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: Announcing the USGv6 Testing Meeting at NIST
>
> Announcing the USGv6 Testing Meeting at NIST.
>
> To be held on Thursday May 20th 2010 in the AML Conference Room,
> Building 215 Room C103, from 9am till 5pm.
>
> Following publication of the USG Profile NIST has established
> a testing
> program to determine products' compliance to USGv6
> capabilities. There
> are at present 2 accreditors and 2 accredited test
> laboratories enrolled
> in the program, with more test laboratories in consideration.
>  July 2010
> marks the date when USG Federal Agencies begin to make IT
> acquisitions
> using the USGv6 profile version 1.0.  We wanted to host a
> public meeting
> to give:
>     - a review of how the testing program is operating.
>     - an opportunity for feedback from Stakeholders, including test
> laboratories, product vendors and USG Agencies.
>
> Accordingly we seek discussion inputs to include:
>     - statements from accredited and prospective test laboratories.
>     - statements/questions and issues from Agencies and users.
>     - statements, questions and issues from USGv6 product vendors.
>
> Issues are expected to include:
>     - testing operations and interlaboratory comparisons.
>     - USGv6 capabilities and requirements.
>     - Suppliers Declaration of Conformity.
>
> There will also be some discussion of the forthcoming USGv6 profile
> version 2.  A full Agenda will be posted to signed up
> attendees closer
> to the day of the meeting.  Due to room size limitations
> there can be a
> maximum of about 70 participants at this meeting, and attendance from
> any one company may need to be limited. Reply to
> [e-mail] if you wish to participate, giving full
> name, company affiliation, title, contact details and whether
> you are a
> U.S. citizen. Please also let us know if you have issues you wish to
> present, with a maximum of 2 or 3 slides, and speaking time limited
> depending on the response.
>
> For further information, please contact Stephen Nightingale
> ([e-mail])
>
>
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