Grant of Use Rights 

IPv6 Test Specifications 

 

WHEREAS, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), on behalf of 

the United States Government (USG), wishes to create a Testing Program for IPv6;

WHEREAS, The parties to this grant recognize the benefit of and wish to enable and 

participate in the creation of a Testing Program for IPv6;

WHEREAS, One of the needs in creating a Testing Program for IPv6 is having abstract 

test specifications freely available for use in testing laboratories; 

WHEREAS, The IPv6 Forum publishes test specifications for both conformance and 

interoperability testing;

WHEREAS, The IPv6 Forum test specifications are copyrighted by various member 

organizations;

WHEREAS, The IPv6 Forum, its constituents, and the parties to this Grant wish to make 

the IPv6 test specifications available for use by NIST on an unrestricted royalty free basis;

WHEREAS, The IPv6 Forum, its constituents, the parties to this Grant and NIST wish to 

make the IPv6 test specifications widely available to any interested party on a royalty free 

basis;

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing recitals and for the purpose of 

operating a testing program in association with a USG IPv6 profile as published by NIST, 

the Interoperability Laboratory of New Hampshire, Yokogawa Electric Corporation of 

Japan, NTT Corporation of Japan, NTT Advanced Technology Corporation of Japan, 

Yaskawa Information Systems Corporation of Japan, the IPv6 Forum, Institut National de 

Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (“INRIA”) and University of Rennes 1 

(INRIA and University of Rennes 1 are members of the joint research unit called IRISA), 

to the extent the Interoperability Laboratory, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, IPv6 

Forum, INRIA, University of Rennes 1, NTT Corporation, NTT Advanced Technology 

Corporation and Yaskawa Information Systems Corporation retain such rights) hereby 

grant the non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, paid-up right to use, copy, modify, 

create derivative works, distribute, publish, sublicense and make available to any 

interested party in any format the Conformance Test Specifications from version 3.8.10 

and Interoperability Test Specifications from version 2.8.4 provided for the IPv6 Forum 

Logo program, including the abstract test specifications relating to Internet RFCs (as 

published by the IPv6 Forum web site at www.ipv6ready.org) comprising: IPv6 Core 

Protocols; Internet Security Protocols; MIPv6; Network Mobility; DHCPv6; Session 

Initiation Protocol; Multicast Listener Discover and IPv4 to IPv6 Transition Protocols.

NIST shall include the appropriate copyright annotation in the original works and in 

derivate works.

For the portion of tests which overlap between the IPv6 Logo and any USG IPv6 profile, 

the form of each test and its interpretation shall remain identical.
The parties to this agreement disclaim all liabilities for any damages caused by usage of 

the IPv6 test specifications in a Testing Program operated by NIST.

This agreement shall not apply to any executable test realizations or test devices 

associated with the signatory organizations.

Any disagreements between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter herein 

shall be resolved through amicable discussions.

The parties making this Grant represent and warrant that they have the right to make the 

grants described herein. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed 

by their duly authorized officers:

For the U.S. National Institute of For the IPv6 Forum 

Standards and Technology www.ipv6forum.com

Name Hiroshi Esaki 

 (Title and Date) Chair, IPv6 Ready Logo Committee, 

 IPv6 Forum

 Professor, the University of Tokyo

 April 14, 2008

Name Jim Bound

 (Title and Date) CTO, IPv6 Forum

 Member IPv6 Forum Board of 

 Directors

 April 14, 2008