Vitual Private Network service
Version
1.0, Nov. 5th, 1998
Experiment leader
Victor Reijs, SURFnet bv, The Netherlands
Participants:
DE, ES, FR, NL, ???
Goals
- Get knowledge on the standardization/
implementation status of VPN's in IP networks.
- Get an idea what the effects of VPN's are on the wide area IP networks
(are VPN's going to influence WAN's [like due to IP protocol bits] or only access to LAN/MAN's)
- Study the security issues (identifaction, autorisation,
accounting and encryption) that are particular to VPN's.
- Determine the use of and policies on VPN's in national networks.
- Get some idea about possible policies that float around in
NRN's on VPN's.
- If WAN issues are invloved in VPN's, initial testing VPN's in the TF-TANT
network environment.
Description
Virtual Private Networks are becoming more and more important (like
extranets over WAN, working at home, Qbone realted services). First of all it is important to
know what the features are of IP VPN's and how they will effect the IP
wide area networks. Also the interaction on generic services like
identification/autorization and accouting is important, so that these
generic services can be placed at the correct logical location in the WAN and/or LAN.
The generic services are NOT the main isssue, it is the use of these
generic services within the VPN concept.
Pre-requisites
Perhaps some generic services.
Dates en phases
- 1Q -2Q 1999
Study the protcol issues around VPN's
- 2Q - 4Q 1999
Test on MBS, to check what issues around VPN's (like the
protocol influences and the logical location of generic services)
will effect the WAN IP network.
- ongoing
gather information how NRN's look at the provision of VPN's
Network Infrastructure
Some low bandwidth (say 1 Mbit/s) starting from 2Q - 4Q 1999.
Hard- and software
Routers en servers that can support VPN's, including the generic services.
Related works
References
To be filled in in future
Last major content related changes: Nov. 5th, 1998