Industry Experts discuss the Vital Significance and Critical Issues Highlighted in a Newly-Released IPv6 Report Surrounding the Future of the Internet
Washington, DC- March 19, 2009- A panel of experts from industry and other Internet thought leaders will convene next week to discuss the pressing need to adopt Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) to ensure the continued growth of the Internet as a platform for innovation. The Internet Society, a nonprofit organization that provides leadership, vision and valued expertise in addressing issues that impact the future of the Internet, is sponsoring the panel in conjunction with a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet’s premier technical standards body.
Currently, most Internet services are based on IPv4 which, due to the Internet’s continued rapid growth, is expected to run out of available addresses in the next two to three years.
The panel builds on findings released today by the Internet Society from a study of the operational characteristics of IPv6 among its organization members. Internet Society organization members include various Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet Exchange Point Operators, (IXPs), enterprises, national research and education networks (NRENs) and network equipment and software vendors. The study was conducted to gain a better grasp on the need to implement IPv6, the usefulness of IPv6 and to learn about their experience in adopting IPv6. The full Report and its findings may be found at: http://www.isoc.org/pubs/2009-IPv6-OrgMember-Report.pdf
With the growing need for Internet users to understand the urgency for IPv6 adoption, the primary goal of the panel discussion is to discuss current progress, issues, and options regarding the imminent need for deployment of IPv6, critical for the continued growth and use of the Internet by individuals, businesses, and organizations worldwide.
The panel will be moderated by Leslie Daigle, the Chief Internet Technology Officer at the Internet Society. Each panelist will have a few minutes to provide initial remarks on different topics relating to IPv6. The panelists for this event include:
* Lorenzo Colitti, Google
* Alain Durand, Comcast
* Jari Arkko, Ericsson Research
* Kurtis Lindqvist, Netnod (an IXP, netnod.se)
* Richard Jimmerson, American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
* Sebastian Bellagamba, Internet Society
The panel discussion will be part of a luncheon that will take place on Tuesday, March 24 at 11:30 a.m. in Grand Ballroom A of the Hilton San Francisco Hotel in conjunction with a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). For more information about the IPv6 panel, contact Kate Russell at krussell@rmr.com.
About the Internet Society
The Internet Society (ISOC) is an independent international non-profit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education and policy around the world. With offices in Washington, D.C. and Geneva, Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Kate Russell
RMR & Associates, Inc.
+1-301-230-0045 ext. 19
Greg Wood
Internet Society
+1-703-439-2145
1 comment:
The problem that we are facing, making promotion of IPv6 an ‘Internet Emergency’ , is that it will actually take years to properly “operationalize” secure IPv6 capabilities in most carrier’s networks and enterprise infrastructure - - and we’re only 3-5 years from needing it to be operational. Taking too long to activate IPv6 as IPv4 resources dwindle could leave us with a gap in services that will affect Internet availability. That makes IPv6 deployment a business continuity issue for companies that use networked computers for operations, and ecommerce, email, VOIP, etc… and plan to operate past the next decade. Its not like Y2K - its more of an “end of oil” problem where the operating expenses get high - especially for companies trying to grow, compete, and launch new services past 2012. We suggest these as a few sensible steps for all companies and govt institutions:
*2009 - Pilot IPv6 security - don’t ignore it - its likely IPv6 is running on parts of your network already
*2010 - Pilot your “outward facing infrastructure” (www servers, DNS, VOIP, email gateways, ecommerce server, etc) working on IPv6 - Google is doing this already!
*2011 - Pilot (secure!) connections from your desktops/laptops out to other companies “outward facing infrastructure”
*2012 - Start working on your internal apps and infrastructure to eventually wean them off IPv4 - to lower your operational costs. It costs as much as +15% OPEX for your network to operate a dual stack…
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