Overall planning, scientific policy making and comprehensive promotion of integration and innovation —— A case study of IPv6 scale deployment and integration and innovation application in Guangdong Ed

I. Overview of the case

1.1 Case background

In November 2017, the General Offices of the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council issued the Action Plan for Promoting the Scale Deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). In August 2018, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Implementing the Action Plan for Promoting the Scale Deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). According to the requirements of the two documents, combined with the actual situation, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education has made overall planning and precise policies to comprehensively promote the scale deployment and innovative application of IPv6 in the education industry in Guangdong Province.

1.2 Case objectives

1. Fully promote the education system network in Guangdong Province to achieve IPv6 coverage.

2. Realize the unification of website logos of colleges and universities in this province and support IPv6 access.

3. Realize the dynamic monitoring and management of IPv6 indicators of the education system in this province.

4. Improve the strategic awareness of IPv6 full coverage in the education system of this province.

5. Cultivate a large number of IPv6 technical support and service talents, and gradually improve the IPv6 ecology.

Second, the specific practices and experiences

2.1 Strengthen organizational leadership

The Guangdong Provincial Department of Education made overall planning, and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education Affairs Center (formerly Guangdong Education Technology Center) took the lead to set up a special working group for IPv6 to promote the orderly deployment of IPv6, report the completion of the work regularly, and adjust the work pace according to the actual situation to ensure that the deployment of IPv6 was completed as required.

2.2 In-depth investigation and demonstration

The Guangdong Provincial Department of Education organized three special seminars and demonstration meetings on IPv6 before and after, invited industry experts to discuss the IPv6 scale deployment of Guangdong’s education system, demonstrated the feasibility of the IPv6 scale deployment work plan, and formed the "Guangdong Education Industry IPv6 Implementation Guidance Plan".

2.3 overall policy promotion

In August 2019, the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Scale Deployment of IPv6 in the Education System of Guangdong Province" was issued, and 18 measures were put forward to comprehensively promote the scale deployment of IPv6 in the education industry. A work notification system and a supervision and assessment mechanism were established, and the scale deployment of IPv6 was included in the information special supervision work of the Education Department of Guangdong Province. In two years, five work supervision notifications were conducted.

2.4 Professional technical guidance

The Guangdong Provincial Department of Education organized the South China Network Center of China Education and Scientific Research Computer Network, technical experts from some universities and related enterprises to set up a technical group for IPv6 special work in Guangdong education industry.

2.5 Accurate dynamic monitoring

In October 2019, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education entrusted the South China Network Center of China Education and Research Computer Network to build an IPv6 reporting and monitoring platform, requiring all educational units in the province to regularly report their own IPv6 upgrades and dynamically monitor their IPv6 access and user activity.

Home Page of Guangdong Education System IPv6 Upgrade Reporting and Monitoring Platform

Contents reported by IPv6 reporting platform

The monitoring platform dynamically monitors the support degree of each index for IPv6 according to the contents reported by each unit, so as to intuitively reflect the upgrading of IPv6 in each unit and provide data support for further promoting the IPv6 scale deployment of the education system in Guangdong Province.

IPv6 monitoring platform

2.6 Multi-dimensional technical verification

According to the latest IPv6 network technology, Guangdong Provincial Department of Education organized different educational institutions to carry out verification deployment. Some units carried out pilot construction according to the pure IPv6 network architecture; According to their own network architecture, some units adopt technologies such as double stack, translation and tunneling to upgrade IPv6.

2.7 Full coverage of website transformation

In April, 2020, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education issued the Work Plan for the Special Renovation of Unified Website Logo of Colleges and Universities in Guangdong Province, which carried out the special rectification of websites, strengthened supervision, paid close attention to implementation, reported the progress of the work three times, cooperated with CERNET South China Network Center, coordinated CERNET National Network Center and Guangdong Communication Administration Bureau, opened a "green channel", provided EDU.CN domain name transition plan and IPv6 transformation plan for all units, ensured that the portal websites of colleges and universities used EDU.CN domain names online and supported IPv6 access.

2.8 Vigorously publicize and promote

The Education Department of Guangdong Province, together with CERNET South China Network Center, organized a series of special conferences such as IPv6 training sessions, seminars and academic conferences to enhance the IPv6 deployment capacity of universities. A total of three special trainings on IPv6 were organized (more than 100 universities and more than 300 teachers participated in the trainings), four regional seminars on IPv6 and two academic conferences.

2.9 personnel training

Encourage all educational institutions to actively participate in the next-generation Internet innovation projects, and encourage colleges and universities to offer IPv6 theory and practice courses in related disciplines. With CERNET Guangdong NOC working group (network operation and maintenance working group), NIC working group (network information technology working group) and work steering committee as the main bodies, IPv6 technical training was carried out to cultivate IPv6 professionals.

Third, the results and highlights

3.1 The indicators of IPv6 in colleges and universities in Guangdong Province rank among the top in China.

As of December 31, 2020, according to the data of the monitoring platform of IPv6 development trend of education system, the percentage of IPv6 opening in universities in Guangdong Province ranks first in the country, and the percentage of IPv6 active addresses ranks second in the country. The number of IPv6 resolutions and the number of IPv6 websites accessible are also in the first place, with the accessible percentage as high as 94.05%.

Percentage of IPv6 development monitoring platform in education system opened.

Percentage of active addresses of IPv6 development monitoring platform in education system

Accessibility percentage of the website of IPv6 development monitoring platform in education system.

By the end of May 2021, the compliance rate of IPv6 websites in Guangdong universities was 82.14%, which was 40.84% higher than the national average, ranking first in the country. In Guangdong universities, the IPv6 inflow is 224.75T, and the outflow is 52.62T, ranking second in the whole country. The number of IPv6 active users in Guangdong universities is 817,238, ranking second in the country, with an average of 5,172 active users, ranking sixth in the country.

Monthly Report on Monitoring the Development Trend of IPv6 in Education System

3.2 Realize the unification of website logos of colleges and universities in Guangdong Province and the full coverage of IPv6.

By July 30, 2020, all the websites of 154 universities in Guangdong and 7 universities outside Guangdong had used EDU.CN domain name, taking the lead in unifying the website logos of ordinary universities in China.

By December 31st, 2020, the portals of colleges and universities in Guangdong Province had achieved full coverage of IPv6, and the comprehensive index of IPv6 scale deployment of education system in Guangdong Province ranked among the top in China.

3.3 Established a perfect IPv6 monitoring and supervision mechanism for the education system.

According to the actual situation of IPv6 scale deployment of education system in Guangdong Province, the first reporting and monitoring platform for IPv6 scale deployment of education system in Guangdong Province was established to dynamically monitor the progress of IPv6 scale deployment of education system in Guangdong Province, providing data support for timely adjusting the direction of IPv6 scale deployment of education system in Guangdong Province. Through the combination of platform construction, unit self-inspection and document notification, an IPv6 monitoring system of education system with Guangdong characteristics has been formed.