ETSI TR 102 235 V1.1.1 (2003-07) Technical Report Methods for Testing and Specification (MTS); Internet Protocol Testing (IPT); Pre-normative Study for IPv6 Testing 2 ETSI TR 102 235 V1.1.1 (2003-07) Reference DTR/MTS-00083 Keywords IP, methodology, testing ETSI 650 Route des Lucioles F-06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - FRANCE Tel.: +33 4 92 94 42 00 Fax: +33 4 93 65 47 16 Siret N° 348 623 562 00017 - NAF 742 C Association à but non lucratif enregistrée à la Sous-Préfecture de Grasse (06) N° 7803/88 Important notice Individual copies of the present document can be downloaded from: http://www.etsi.org The present document may be made available in more than one electronic version or in print. In any case of existing or perceived difference in contents between such versions, the reference version is the Portable Document Format (PDF). In case of dispute, the reference shall be the printing on ETSI printers of the PDF version kept on a specific network drive within ETSI Secretariat. 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ETSI 3 ETSI TR 102 235 V1.1.1 (2003-07) Contents Intellectual Property Rights................................................................................................................................5 Foreword.............................................................................................................................................................5 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................5 1 Scope ........................................................................................................................................................7 2 References ................................................................................................................................................7 3 Abbreviations .........................................................................................................................................10 4 Void........................................................................................................................................................11 5 Needs and aims of the EC for IPv6 ........................................................................................................11 5.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................11 5.2 EC policy..........................................................................................................................................................11 5.3 EC IPv6 priorities.............................................................................................................................................12 5.4 eEurope 2005 guidance ....................................................................................................................................13 5.5 How testing supports these needs and aims......................................................................................................13 6 Potential users of TC-MTS IPv6 test specifications...............................................................................15 6.1 IPv6 Task Force Label Committee...................................................................................................................15 6.1.1 Introduction.................................................................................................................................................15 6.1.2 Proposed ETSI Support of the Logo Programme .......................................................................................16 6.2 3GPP ................................................................................................................................................................16 6.3 ETSI Technical Bodies and members ..............................................................................................................17 6.4 ETSI PlugtestsTM service..................................................................................................................................17 6.5 The IETF ..........................................................................................................................................................17 6.6 SMEs and other European interests..................................................................................................................17 7 IPv6 Areas of Interest for testing ...........................................................................................................18 8 The IETF and testing..............................................................................................................................18 8.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................18 8.2 Optional requirements ......................................................................................................................................18 8.3 The Internet draft-test suite cycle .....................................................................................................................19 9 Elements of IPv6 test specifications.......................................................................................................19 9.1 Types of test specifications ..............................................................................................................................19 9.2 Minimum sets of requirements.........................................................................................................................20 9.3 Test methods and architecture ..........................................................................................................................20 9.4 Test Purposes (TPs)..........................................................................................................................................21 9.4.1 Feasibility of test purpose compilation and synthesis.................................................................................21 9.5 Test Suites (TSs) ..............................................................................................................................................22 9.6 Implementation Conformance Statements (ICS)..............................................................................................22 9.7 IPv6 test specification toolkit ...........................................................................................................................22 9.8 Option selection switches.................................................................................................................................23 10 Proposed work packages for each Area of Interest ................................................................................23 10.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................23 10.2 The minimum set of documents .......................................................................................................................24 10.3 Task development and analysis........................................................................................................................26 11 WP0: The IPv6 test specification toolkit package..................................................................................27 11.1 Test methodologies...........................................................................................................................................27 11.1.1 Methodologies for conformance and interoperability testing .....................................................................27 11.1.2 Integration with current 3GPP test suites....................................................................................................27 11.1.3 Scheduling the production of test specifications.........................................................................................27 11.2 Toolkit components..........................................................................................................................................27 11.3 Identification of tasks and resource estimate....................................................................................................28 ETSI 4 ETSI TR 102 235 V1.1.1 (2003-07) 12 WP1: The Core package.........................................................................................................................28