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Executive Summary: The purpose of this planning guide is to provide United States (U.S.) Federal Government agency leaders with practical and actionable guidance on how to successfully integrate Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) throughout their enterprise. This guide has been updated from the original guide published in 2009 to aid in understanding the Federal Government’s Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) history, vision, current goals, and deadlines. Based on the information found in this document, the Agency Chief Information Officer (CIO), IPv6 Transition Managers, Chief Enterprise Architects, and Chief Acquisition Officers (CAO) can assess their own agency’s current IPv6 implementation progress and develop an agency-specific plan with detailed milestones to achieve the defined IPv6 goals for FY2012 and FY2014. Download the USGv6Roadmap: USGv6Roadmap.pdf Peter Tseronis Chairperson of the Federal IPv6 Task Force Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Department of Energy

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Christian Kaufmann, Director Network Architecture at Akamai, Chairman of the AMS-IX, Executive Board Member at the RIPE NCC

March 26, Akamai carries between 20% and 30% of the Internet's Web traffic on any given day, Akamai is the world's largest content delivery network (CDN). Akamai's engineering team has been working for two years to upgrade its more than 100,000 servers in 78 countries connected by 1,900 networks to support IPv6.

Read here: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/network-wifi/3347048/big-news-for-ipv6-akamai-launch-service-in-april/

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Date: June 6, 2012
Location: Worldwide
Website: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/

Major websites, ISPs and Content providors are permanently enabling IPv6 starting 6 June 2012 at 0000 UTC on their main websites: www.facebook.com,www.google.com, www.bing.com, and www.yahoo.com will all be reachable over IPv6 from that time. Please join us for this launch and help accelerate the momentum of IPv6 deployment. Dr. Vint Cerf, Founder of Internet Society (ISOC) & Honorary Chair of IPv6 Forum

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http://www.arabadvisors.com/Convergence/detailedschedule.htm/ Under the patronage of HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, President of El Hassan Science City and the Royal Scientific Society. The convergence of media, telecom and information technology pushes the hitherto disconnected players in the three sectors towards operating in an increasingly merged segment. This convergence carries threats to existing revenue and business models, but also bears new opportunities for new models. Arab Advisors Group’s 9th Convergence Summit 2012 is the ideal forum for networking, discussions and debates on the convergence trends underway in the Arab media and telecom markets. An IPv6 Panel session will be held by the IPv6 Forum with contribution from Vint Cerf in view of the World IPv6 Launch. For more details, please contact arabadvisors@arabadvisors.com

organised by Jawad J. Abbassi, Founder and General Manager, Arab Advisors Group

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Exploring IPv6 Industry Issues & Challenges at IEE ICC 2012 June 10-15 in Ottawa, Canada

On Thursday, June 14, The Canadian IPv6 Task Force will have the extreme privilege of addressing the latest issues surrounding IPv6’s global deployment at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) to be held from June 10 – 15 at the newly-opened, $17 million Ottawa Convention Centre. During this session titled the “The IPv6 Internet: Impact on ISPs, Enterprise Networking & Cloud Computing,” I will join several noted, international colleagues in a lively, provocative forum designed to foster the ongoing stability and growth of Internet Protocol–based ICT within every mobile, office and home environment.

http://bit.ly/ieee-wdd-blog

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Informa Telecoms & Media’s IPv6 World Congress will take place on 26th-27th June 2012, Hotel Husa President Park, Brussels, Belgium

The time for IPv6 transition is now – the only option for the continued evolution and development of the internet. The transition brings key challenges to every corner of the industry and nobody can afford to be left behind. Major ISP’s and web companies will be permanently enabling IPv6 on 6th June 2012 and once again the IPv6 World Congress is perfectly timed to analyse the early results and findings from this launch day. The event will explore the drivers for upgrading to IPv6, current state of readiness within the industry, strategic challenges and obstacles on the road to IPv6 deployment, transition techniques, practical issues and the evolution of consumer devices towards IPv6. Join us in Brussels on 26th-27th June to find out more and network with senior professionals from the industry.

http://www.ipv6event.com/

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Conference Moderators: Stan Hodges, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading & Carol Wilson, Chief Editor, Events, Light Reading

The Hilton New York | New York City, NY | Thursday, July 12, 2012

Light Reading's IPv6 conference returns after a hugely successful debut last year. This year's theme, IPv6: The Rubber Meets the Road, speaks to the fact that service providers and enterprises are no longer pondering when to deploy IPv6 but are focused on how to manage this transition in a manner that is cost-effective and efficient in the short term but takes into account long-term needs and opportunities. This conference will inform the critical decisions that service providers and their customers need to make, bringing global IPv6 experts together to discuss the significant challenges inherent in this transition period, when IPv4 and IPv6 are coexisting in the network.

Register for IPv6 2012: The Rubber Meets the Road

http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?event_id=29896

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Yanick Pouffary is HP Distinguished Technologist; Chief Architect, HP Technology Services Office of the CTO; and HP IPv6 Global Leader.

March 2nd marked the anniversary of Jim Bound's early death. On this third year since his passing at just 58 years old, I want to remember him and his contributions to HP, to the global technology community and to the evolution of the Internet.

As “IPv6 lead plumber”, CTO of the IPv6 Forum, Chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force, and a Senior Fellow with HP (he came to HP by way of DEC and Compaq), Jim worked passionately and tirelessly on IPv6 (see the IPv6 Forum memorial notice: http://www.ipv6forum.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=58/).

Read here: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Transforming-IT-Blog/Remembering-a-pioneer-of-the-next-generation-Internet-and-IPv6/ba-p/110097/

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Eric Vyncke & Carl Wuyts

April 17, 2012 – Dear all,

Both myself and Olivier realize that the Belgian IPv6 Council has been driven by motivated people to make the Internet within Belgium a better place with future aspirations of a knowledge culture into a new technology area.

If our government would realize the potential political and technology impact of IPv6 leadership, then hopefully after IPv6 World Launch 2012, Belgium can have the visibility of a world leading knowledge worker leadership country.

Eric Vyncke has been from the beginning the Belgian Council IPv6 CTO and served as the webmaster/statistics-master, while Carl Wuyts is responsible for the IPv6 implementation for home CPE's leading towards nearly 0.5 billion devices world-wide going forward.

I am very happy to announce that both Carl Wuyts and Eric Vyncke accepted the role of "Belgian IPv6 Council Chair" and will take responsibility as the Chair of the Belgian IPv6 Council. Olivier and myself decided to step down and serve as the leads of the Belgian IPv6 Council team for "Promotion and Technical Advisory" and will serve a role as Belgian IPv6 Council Founding Member and Belgian IPv6 Council Fellow.

Kind Regards, Gunter and Olivier Former Belgian IPv6 Council Co-Chairs.
Website: http://www.ipv6council.be/

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Erica Johnson, Director, UNH InterOperability Lab (IOL)

Durham, N.H., March 19, 2012 – The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, today announced the lab will provide home system integrators an opportunity to test the interoperability of their IPv6 implementations and satisfy the requirements for participation in World IPv6 Launch, during the fourth IPv6 CE (Home Router) Test Event, April 16 – April 20, 2012, at the UNH-IOL. The deadline for companies to register for the test event is April 9, 2012.
Download the press release: UNH.pdf

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Athanassios Liakopoulos, GRNET Coordinator and Hellenic IPv6 Task Force Founding Member

April 6, 2012 –“It was demonstrated that the various public and commercial stakeholders in Greece are taking the right steps ahead”, stressed Athanassios Liakopoulos,

“ Always-on access technologies (BB, 3G-LTE,..) need globally routable IP address space provided now only by IPv6. Greece has been a pioneering nation with Thanassis and the HTFv6 members contributing to the world efforts for innovative IPv6 services“ states Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President.
Website: http://www.ipv6-taskforce.gr/

Download the press release: Greece.pdf

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Now is the Time for IPv6 http://www.rmv6tf.org/IPv6Summit.htm Organised by Scott Hogg, Chair RMv6TF April 9-11, 2012 Grand Hyatt Denver Colorado

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http://www.conference.cn/ipv6/2012/en/ Date: April 10-11, 2012 Venue: Hotel Nikko New Century Beijing Endorsed by CNGI (China Next Generation Internet) Expert Committee, China three major carriers & CERNET, and co-hosted by IPv6 Forum & BII Group

organised by Liu Dong, Chair IPv6 Forum China

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Adiel A. Akplogan, CEO, AFRINIC

21st March 2012 –As the Regional Internet Registry for Africa, AfriNIC, the African Network Information Centre, is proud to announce the launch of the African IPv6 Taskforce (AF6TF). This community driven initiative is dedicated to encourage IPv6 deployment in the African region and to serve as a regional consolidated platform for knowledge and best practice exchange. Website: http://www.af6tf.net/ Contact: Secretariat@af6tf.net/

Download the press release: AF6.pdf

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Date: March 2, 2012
Website: http://www.tec.gov.in/ipv6activities.php/

Shri R. M. Agarwal, DDG(NT) is an Indian Telecommunication Services officer presently working as Deputy Director General (Networks and Technologies) in the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. He has also been designated as the Central Coordinating Officer from the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, to coordinate with Government and Industry for transition from IPv4 to IPv6 in the country. He has also been nominated as Convener of recently formed India IPv6 Task Force for implementation of IPV6 in India including pilot projects across various sectors. He has brought out IPv6 policy document “National IPv6 Deployment Roadmap” for India in July, 2010 and a Compendium on IPv6 activities in March, 2011. R. M. Agarwal, DDG(Networks and Technologies), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India

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Birzeit/Luxembourg, March 19, 2012 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes Palestine as its newest country member with the establishment of the IPv6 Forum Palestine under the leadership of Dr. Iyad Tumar as its president.
Dr. Iyad Tumar is assistant professor at the Faculty of information Technology at Birzeit University, Palestine. The kick-off of the IPv6 Forum Palestine will be done in the IPv6 workshop planned for April 22-23, 2012.
Download the press release: Palestine.pdf

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Remi Scavanius, Upperside

The second edition of V6 World will take place in Paris next 7 to 10 February, 2012.

The objectives set for the 2012 edition is to confirm the 2011 success. Upperside Conferences expects more than 500 delegates to attend.

The program is online at:

"http://www.uppersideconferences.com/v6world2012/v6world2012program_day_one.html

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Grenada/Luxembourg, March 12, 2012 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes Grenada as its newest country member with the establishment of the IPv6 Forum Grenada under the leadership of Brent McIntosh as its founding president. Brent is Regional Manager-Network Services at Columbus Communications Grenada Ltd and recently certified as an IPv6 Gold engineer by the IPv6 Forum Education program.
Download the press release: Grenada.pdf

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Budapest/Luxembourg, February, 2012 - The IPv6 Forum is pleased to announce the establishment of the Hungary IPv6 Forum under the leadership of Dr. Sandor IMRE as its President. Prof. Imre is the Head of the Department of Telecommunications at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Download the press release: Hungary.pdf

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Stockholm/Luxembourg, January 15, 2012 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes Sweden as its newest country member with the establishment of the IPv6 Forum Sweden under the leadership of Mr. Olle E Johansson as President.
Download the press release: Sweden.pdf

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Teheran/Luxembourg, January 10, 2012 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes Iran as its newest country member with the establishment of the IPv6 Forum Iran under the leadership of Mr. Behrouz Abbas Zadeh as President.
Download the press release: Iran.pdf

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SmartGRID IPv6 Liaison paper by IPv6 Subject Matter Expert & IPv6 Forum Liaison Representative : Patrick Grossetete, IPv6 Forum Fellow
Download the paper: SmartGrid.pdf

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On December 1st and 2nd, 2011 the 4th German IPv6 Summit will be held at the Hasso-Plattner-Institute in Potsdam according to the motto "Online on the Road - the new IPv6 Standard as driving forces for mobile communication". The German IPv6 Summit provides a forum in which overseas, European, and German experts are addressing current development of IPv6 deployment with a focus on automobile networking.
http://www.ipv6council.de/events/4th_german_ipv6_summit.html

The German IPv6 Council invites applications for the
International IPv6 Application Contest 2011

http://www.ipv6council.de/contest2011/vertikal_menu/contest_at_a_glance.html

Prizes: Applications and Implementations: three major awards Deadline: Submission deadline for Applications and Ideas: October 31, 2011 Award Ceremony: December 1, 2011 during the Gala Diner

Christoph Meinel, Chair, German IPv6 Council

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Accelerating adoption of the NEW INTERNET

NEW HAMPSHIRE- USA - TOKYO – BEIJING - LUXEMBOURG, September 7, 2011– The IPv6 Forum launches the son of Moonv6 www.moonv6.org/ which was initiated by Jim Bound († 2009) back in 2004 as the largest permanently deployed multi-vendor IPv6 network in the world led by the North American IPv6 Task Force and the University of New Hampshire - InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), Internet2, vendors, service providers and regional IPv6 Forum Task Force network pilots worldwide.

In the memory of Jim Bound, this project will be called BOUNDv6. Jim in his interview with NetworkWorld back in 2004 had the vision and the audacity to make big things happen: www.networkworld.com/news/2004/092704ipv6qa.html?nl/

The goal of the Boundv6 network is to create a permanent multi-vendor network environment connecting initially IPv6 Ready Logo approved labs and USG approved labs where the community can test IPv6 enabled applications and devices in meaningful test scenarios which will form the base of the NEW INTERNET.

Boundv6 is targeted at Government and critical networks, Enterprise, ISPs and Apps Developers. The biggest challenge will be that all implementations will be encouraged to have security built-in on all tested cases.

Boundv6 is supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the US Government Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN).

"The Boundv6 effort will form an important adjunct to the USGv6 product testing program in helping Government agencies achieve their 2012 and 2014 IPv6 deployment mandates. NIST hopes to facilitate broader USG participation and use of the BoundV6 network to perform vital integration testing of the IPv6 enabled services necessary to achieve these goals." states Doug Montgomery, Manager Internet and Scalable Systems Research and USGv6 Project Lead, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

“IPv6 is ready for prime time, but some business models and applications are not ready for IPv6. Boundv6 presents a great opportunity for validation and testing for the next phase of implementations.” states Ron Broersma, Chief Engineer, Defence Research and Engineering Network (DREN) “IPv6 should be deployed “native” to sustain the current Internet business models worldwide. Boundv6 will lay a permanent ground for parity check of the current business models.” states Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum, Senior Researcher at University of Luxembourg, Security and Trust (SnT) Center. Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society (ISOC)

“Moonv6 was about vendor interoperability. Boundv6 is about validating applications ensuring service parity.” Says Yanick Pouffary General Chairperson for the IPv6 Logo Programs (Ready & Enabled & Education), IPv6 Forum Fellow and NAv6TF Technology Director.

"Creating opportunities and discovering new ways to test IPv6 is important to the progression and transition process. The Boundv6 Network will enable the IPv6 industry to collaborate with labs and other participating vendors in order to ensure high quality of services and connectivity. " states Erica Johnson, Lead of the Boundv6 Project, Director, UNH-IOL, IPv6 Ready Logo Regional Officer, IPv6 Forum Fellow, USA

Full press release can bee seen here: www.marketwire.com/press-release/The-IPv6-Forum-Launches-BOUNDv6-World-IPv6-Internet-1557716.htm/

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LUXEMBOURG, June 30, 2011– The IPv6 Forum has introduced the ISP Enabled Program which has attracted about 100 ISPs over the last 12 months. Now is the time to light up IPv6 service massively to end-users. Those ISPs offering IPv6 Service will be listed on the ISP Hall of Fame in this contest which will last until December 6, 2011.

From the 8700 organisations worldwide that have received IPv6 prefixes from the IP registries, some 50% have announced their prefixes on the routing table. However only a fraction of these have offered IPv6 service to their customers.

The World IPv6 Day has demonstrated that with IPv6 enabled service, the expected great impact could have happened. It is quite normal that ISPs would need more time to enable IPv6 service after the central IANA IP address pool depletion in February 2011.

To register your IPv6 Service in the IPv6 Service Hall of Fame, please go to the IPv6 Enabled Program to get your ISP Logo, then a proof of service deployment to your customer on your web site offering IPv6 service to your customers would be needed: http://www.ipv6forum.com/ipv6_Hall-of-fame/

“ISPs have now the opportunity to demonstrate their pioneering work and be the first on the IPv6 Service Hall of Fame” states Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President Senior Researcher at University of Luxembourg, Security and Trust (SnT) Center. Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society.

“The World IPv6 day has demonstrated that the ISPs are the missing link in this evolution” states Yanick Pouffary, NAv6TF Technology Director, IPv6 Forum Fellow and IPv6 Forum (Ready & Enabled) Logo Programs Chairperson.

“The ISP Enable Program has seen steady growth. However, there is still a lot of work ahead of us to get IPv6 service around the world on equal footing, This program will give the IPv6 pioneers a chance to make immediate impact." states Liu Dong, Chair China IPv6 Council, Chair, IPv6 Enable Program.

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The Norwegian IPv6 Forum invites to its second IPv6 conference: IKT-Norge IPv6 konferanse 22. og 23. November 2011

"The ICT-Norway IPv6 forums main focus is speeding up the knowledge of and transition to IPv6 as IPv4 becomes unavailable. One of our mayor concerns is that the public sector seems to be failing behind in making its massive amount of online content and services available over IPv6 at the appropriate time - now.” stated Torgeir Waterhouse Venue: Stavanger Quality Airport Hotel

Torgeir Waterhouse, President, IPv6 Forum Norway

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Presented by gogo6, the IPv6 Forum and the California IPv6 Task Force

Join us November 1-3 at San Jose State University to be part of the movement to IPv6. The theme of this year’s conference is “Trials & Tribulations”. With the question of IPv4 depletion behind us gogoNET LIVE! 2 will focus is on the technical details of how to do an IPv6 trial. Day 1 will consist of technical hands-on workshops. Days 2 and 3 will consist of case studies from those who have successfully completed IPv6 trials and functional presentations on the steps required to do an IPv6 field trial.

www.gogonetlive.com/

For questions please email: info(at)gogonetlive.com

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Melbourne October 17 – 19 October, 2011 The 2011 theme is IPv6: Learning from Experience www.ipv6.org.au/summit/ Tony Hill, President ISOC Australia Contact: Martin Lack martin.lack[at]conferenceit.com.au

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BEIJING, CHINA – PENANG, MALAYSIA – SAN JOSE, USA - LUXEMBOURG, July 4, 2011– The IPv6 Forum Education Logo Program Committee releases a new program; The IPv6 Education Certified Certification Logo Program. This program will certify vendor certifications that assess IPv6 expertise per IPv6 Forum’s specification with Silver & Gold Logo levels and also requires IPv6 enabled in the Certification program website.

In order to be certified, the required exams must cover all mandatory exam topics outlined in section 3.4 in the requirement specifications document. Two levels of certification are provided by the IPv6 Forum Certified Certification program: Silver certifications will include beginner and intermediate IPv6 topics; Gold certification will include topics of all skill levels including advanced IPv6 topics.

“The large number of requests from successfully tested engineers to have their exams recognized by the IPv6 Forum Education Logo program has led us to take this program to the next level and formalize the steps to recognize the successful engineers. The IPv6 transition will happen thru these engineers.” states Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum, Senior Researcher at University of Luxembourg, Security and Trust (SnT) Center. Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society (ISOC)

“The demand for IPv6 trained engineers has changed significantly in just the past 3-6 months. The industry needs IPv6 trained certified engineers, NOW. This next level of IPv6 Education Logo Program is absolutely needed as it is designed to certify vendors certification programs uniformly across the industry. Thus allowing more network engineers to be certified. These IPv6 certified engineers will help ensure a seamless growth of the Internet based on IPv6.” states Yanick Pouffary General Chairperson for the IPv6 Logo Programs (Ready & Enabled & Education), IPv6 Forum Fellow and NAv6TF Technology Director.

“It is obvious now that well-trained IPv6 network engineers are necessary for successful IPv6 integration and transition. The new “certified certification” initiative from IPv6 Forum Education Logo program will further promote IPv6 adoption by providing an opportunity for networking vendors to enable their certification programs “IPv6 Ready” and officially recognized.” states Liu Dong, Chair China IPv6 Council and Chair IPv6 enabled Program

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The core objectiveof the conference is to bring together the different stakeholders in industry, research, politics, and administration in the IPv6 field in region with a clear missionto advocate IPv6 by improving technology, market, deployment, and raise user and industry awareness of IPv6.

Supported by The National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6)was established by the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communication (MEWC), Malaysia in March 2005 . It serves as the National Centre for IPv6 research, human resource development and monitoring of IPv6 development for Malaysia. The Malaysian government has entrusted NAv6 to develop the National IPv6 Rollout Roadmap and please visit http://nav6.org/

Professor Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass

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Luxembourg, June 1st 2011 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes and congratulates the Luxembourg main Telecom Operator P&T for its IPv6 service pilot in view of the World IPv6 Day event. This initiative has been on the agenda since the creation of the Luxembourg IPv6 Council with its vice-chair Mr. Jean-Marie Spaus, CTO of the Luxembourg P&T.Telematics of CNR.

"I am very pleased to be the first user of the P&T IPv6 service over DSL which took me just a few clicks to light up IPv6 on my PC. This is indeed a historical moment for me personally and for Luxembourg " stated Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President. "We have done the necessary and careful steps to make IPv6 work. We are indeed very proud of our achievement and we will encourage the Luxembourg IPv6 community to test IPv6 with us” stated Mr Jean-Marie Spaus, CTO, P&T and vice-chair Luxembourg IPv6 Council Come to listen to his speech at the 2nd future internet Summit June 7th. http://www.future-internet.uni.lu/

Mr Jean-Marie Spaus,CTO, P&T and vice-chair Luxembourg IPv6 Council

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Baghdad/Luxembourg, May 10, 2011 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes Iraq as its newest country member with the establishment of the IPv6 Council Iraq under the leadership of his excellency Minister Allawi, Minister of Communications, as the Chairman of the IPv6 Council Iraq and Mrs. Itidal Hasoon as the co-chair.

“Modernising the national Internet and Communication critical infrastructure is a vital political next step to sustain the growth and stability of the Internet at this juncture as the IPv4 address space has been completely depleted. IPv6 should be our strategic base platform for all networks as it provides the necessary resources and features to build superior states Minister Allawi Chair, IPv6 Council Iraq.networks”.

Minister Allawi ., Chair, IPv6 Council Iraq

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European Commission Call to Action on IPv6 orchestrated by Jacques Babot European Commission communication on IPv6 dated 27 May 2008 IPv6 Video Clip European IPv6 Workshop - Brussels 17 June 2011 IPv6 Research projects, from action to R&D

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Harold de Dios Tovar, Secretary, Task Force IPv6 México ac.

The Ministry of Communications and Transportation through the Coordination of the Information and Knowledge Society and the Organization of Task Force IPv6 Mexico A.C, are pleased to invite you to participate as a panelist of the Third International Congress, Global IPv6 Summit Mexico 2011, to be held from 6 to 10 June 2011 in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico, at the Software Center Building and the Hilton Hotel of Guadalajara.

The Third edition of Global IPv6 Summit Mexico 2011 is addressed to all private or public organizations using Internet integrally in their daily activities and have as target, to promote and diffuse the recognition, the unfolding and application of IPv6 among the internet actors in Mexico, in order to undertake the necessary actions for the adoption of this Internet Protocol. Moreover it shows the local, national and regional strategies being developed and impels the transition to IPv6 in Mexico.

"http://www.2011.ipv6summit.mx

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For Internet Sustained growth and Future Innovation

LUXEMBOURG, February 04, 2011– The IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority- www.iana.org ) has allocated the last IP address blocks from the global IPv4 central address pool, ending all debates over when this would happen.

”The Internet has become the global communication network, now is the time to sustain its growth and stability by integrating IPv6. IPv6 adds great value to IPv4" states Dr. Vint Cerf, Honorary Chair, IPv6 Forum.

”The Internet is for Everyone. IPv6 represents the next stage of the Internet's evolution and will help make this vision a reality" states Lynn St.Amour, President & CEO, Internet Society

“The time is now! And resistance is futile” states Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President Senior Researcher at University of Luxembourg, Security and Trust (SnT) Center. Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society.

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/The-IPv6-Forum-Worldwide-Chapters-Leaders-Experts-Call-for-Swifter-Move-to-IPv6-1390629.htm

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June 2, 2011, Atlanta – The Broadband Forum and the IPv6 Forum announced their cooperative effort to empower the successful adoption of IPv6 in broadband deployments worldwide, creating the ecosystem that will ensure the continued success of the Internet as new applications and user expectations grow beyond the bounds of the IPv4 protocol. The two organizations are collaborating to incorporate Broadband Forum network and testing specifications into the IPv6 Forum’s Certification Program..


“BroadbandSuite™ 4.0 is already becoming a globally accepted reference on IPv6, ensuring that the industry can address the exponentially growing device and smart gateway requirements of next generation broadband,” said Christophe Alter, Broadband Forum’s Technical Chair. “The work delivered through BroadbandSuite 4.0 allows service providers to activate IPv6 in their networks today. The IPv6 Forum’s Certification Program will ensure interoperability, allowing the industry to deploy with confidence.”.

“IPv6 represents the future of the Internet and the Broadband Forum’s work on standards and specifications is a great enabler. Working with the Broadband Forum allows us to ensure that our Certification Program meets the needs of the industry,” said Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President and Senior Researcher at University of Luxembourg, Security and Trust (SnT) Center, chairman of the EU IPv6 Task Force and Emeritus Trustee of the Internet Society, the organization that is running World IPv6 Day.

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Pisa/Luxembourg, May 28, 2011 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes Italy as its newest country member with the establishment of the Italian chapter of the IPv6 Forum, aimed at favoring IPv6 deployment in the country and chaired by Marco Sommani from the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of CNR.

"The IPv6 Italia group should re-ignite the efforts undertaken by the Italian IPv6 Task Force targeted at stimulating IPv6 adoption and intends to become the focal point where Italian speaking people will find useful information and advice" stated Marco Sommani, Chair of IPv6 Italia. "IPv6 is central to the continued growth and stability of the Internet and the Internet Society of Italy is pleased to promote its deployment through the support of the Italian chapter of the IPV6 Forum" stated Stefano Trumpy President of the Internet Society of Italy.

Marco Sommani, Chair, IPv6 Italia

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The IPv6 Forum Launches the IPv6 Education Certification Logo Program Accelerating adoption and integration of IPv6 in the Education Curriculum Worldwide

TOKYO - BEIJING - Penang - Malayisia - New Hampshire - USA - LUXEMBOURG, September 06, 2010 - The IPv6 Forum Ready Logo Program Committee releases a new program: the IPv6 Education Certification Logo Program. This program defines and certifies courses, engineers and trainers with Silver & Gold Logo levels and requires IPv6 implementation on the web site of the education program.

A recent survey on IPv6 training and studies at universities and vendors has demonstrated that IPv6 training and courses are way too embryonic to have any critical impact. It is estimated that some 20 million engineers are working on the current Internet worldwide at ISPs, corporate and all other public and private organizations and they will need quality training on IPv6. This is a gigantic task since it’s the first upgrade of the Internet and most probably the last one for decades to come. The web site of the study can be seen here: http://www.training4ipv6.eu/

The IPv6 Forum Education Logo Program’s prime objective is to encourage and accelerate the education on IPv6 and promote thereby swifter adoption of IPv6 in the education curriculum and programs of the universities, research institutes, vendors and training specialists. This program is designed to increase practical engineering expertise and hands-on knowledge to tackle this large undertaking ahead of us extending thereby user confidence by demonstrating that IPv6 will be deployed by qualified engineers.

”This program has been designed to prepare a wide range of players for the implementation and use of IPv6. It is intended as an aid to capacity building and a way to promote IPv6 awareness." states Dr. Vint Cerf, Honorary Chair, IPv6 Forum

”The IPv6 Forum wishes to recognize the IPv6 training experts for their pioneering work to be used as a precursor model encouraging the education sector in the universities and vendor training programs to adopt their quality training courses to win time and train qualified engineers to deploy IPv6 with expertise and quality." states Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum, Senior Researcher at University of Luxembourg, Security and Trust (SnT) Center. Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society (ISOC)

"The IPv6 Curriculum study has abundantly demonstrated that hands-on IPv6 skills and field experience are dearly missing. Achieving parity between IPv4 and IPv6 deployment, quality expertise is the one pillar to focus on. This program is very welcome as it takes on this task globally" states Jacques Babot, IPv6 Team leader, European Commission - DG INFSO, Unit F4 New infrastructure paradigms and experimental facilities FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experiments)

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The IPv6 Forum Releases The IPv6 Security (IPsec) Ready Logo Program Accelerating adoption and integration of IPsec and IPv6 technology solutions worldwide

TOKYO - NEW HAMPSHIRE - LUXEMBOURG, September 15th , 2010- The IPv6 Forum Ready Logo Program Committee releases the IPv6 IPsec Logo Program to promote the adoption of IPv6 to the Security Community.

A recent study on IPv6 security funded by the European Commission has determined that IPv6 and IPv4 are using the same IPsec-based security protocols and mechanisms. However, IPv6 mandates built-in IPsec making IPv6 security deployment more efficient. IPv6 provides end-to-end (e2e) transparency facilitating thereby e2e security models (i.e. using IPsec/IKE end-to-end) without NAT traversal issues, more fine grained security policies and filtering rules can be applied due to the unique end system addresses, and IPv6 offers the possibility of end-to-end identification and authentication. The summary of the European Commission white paper on the IPv6 security study can be downloaded here: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6/docs/studies/executive_summary_v1.3_en.pdf

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently published the “Guidelines for the secure deployment of IPv6” written by Sheila Frankel, Richard Graveman and John Pearce, security experts and authorities on this topic. As of July 2010, U.S. Government agencies require IPv6 compliant products in IT acquisitions. The document can be viewed here: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-119/draft-sp800-119_feb2010.pdf

IPsec was designed at the beginning for IPv6 to benefit from the e2e restoration. However, IPsec was adapted to IPv4 and was quite successfully deployed where NAT was not in the middle. IPv6 requires changing of firewall policies, i.e. multicast and ICMP traffic should not be blocked by default. Moreover, several operating systems enable IPv6 by default but users/administrators may not be aware of this, leaving temporarily room for IPv6 attacks. This requires training of network administrators now in order to get appropriate protection in place.

"The IPv6 deployment should be undertaken with upfront security consideration. Some 40 IPsec implementations have passed the IPv6 Ready Logo program. This program wishes to scale up understanding and use of IPsec in all network security scenarios with greater security benefit" states Latif Ladid, President of the IPv6 Forum, Senior Researcher at University of Luxembourg Security & trust (SnT) center, Emeritus Trustee Internet Society.

"IPv6 will facilitate and accelerate the deployment of e2e services (i.e. e-government services), requiring user-friendly security mechanisms (i.e. user authentication via certificates). Moreover, peer-to-peer based services (between unknown parties) require globally unique addressing and identification in order to support a global credential service using certificates." states Wolfgang Fritsche, IPv6 security Study Coordinator and Expert on IPv6 Security at IABG

"IPsec is a fundamental core building block of the communication puzzle. IPsec with IPv4 has been difficult to deploy due, in part, to the lack of globally routable IPv4 addresses and the wide use of NATs. IPsec is a mandatory part of an IPv6 implementation. This Logo recognizes implementations that have implemented IPsec. It will allow the industry to further secure its communication and infrastructure components.” states Yanick Pouffary, IPv6 Forum (Ready & Enabled) Logo programs chairperson, IPv6 Forum Fellow & NAv6TF Technology Director.

‘’IPsec is a key feature that will be critical for securing the IPv6 network, particularly as the number of active devices and applications increase exponentially. The IPv6 Ready Logo program for IPsec will follow the other successful IPv6 Forum Ready Logo programs in ensuring that these critical features conform to the standards and interoperate in heterogeneous networks” states Erica Johnson, IPv6 Ready Logo Regional Officer, IPv6 Forum Fellow

“IPsec works far better on IPv6 than on IPv4, due to the absence of NAT on IPv6 connections. IPsec is simply incompatible with the NAT found everywhere on the First Internet. NAT traversal can be used, but it complicates the implementation and adds new security issues. VPNs and secure remote access will work better than ever on the Second Internet. The final piece of the IPsec puzzle is to use IKEv2 with IPsec Digital Certificates to automate the mutual authentication process. IPv6 Ready certification of IPsec and IKEv2 will insure that these technologies work as designed.” Lawrence Hughes, IPv6 Ready Logo Regional Officer and Author of “The Second Interne

"The ubiquitous computing environment is now accelerated by the trend of smart grids. In such a society, security is the most important element. It is nice to highlight IPsec, which is the key component for real ubiquitous computing." states Hiroshi Miyata, IPv6 Ready Logo Regional Officer, IPv6 Forum Fellow.

To test and obtain the IPv6 IPsec Ready Logo, please visit the IPsec page: http://www.ipv6ready.org/?page=documents&tag=phase-2-IPsec

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With only 6% of the remaining number of IPv4 addresses available in the global pool, interest in how to effectively migrate networks to IPv6 is steadily growing. Last Friday June 11, John Chambers addressed the third annual Google IPv6 Implementation conference, which was opened by Vint Cerf in Mountain View. John outlined Cisco’s longstanding commitment to helping customers address this issue and build effective plans for migration.

In 2007, Cisco Distinguished Engineer Mark Townsley first issued a challenge to this IPv6 community to eat its own dog food in its own conferences and so, appropriately enough John’s video contribution to the conference was indeed streamed over IPv6:

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/john_chambers_outlines_ciscos_commitment_to_ipv6_at_google_conference/

Clearly IPv4 exhaust is on the horizon, but Cisco sees IPv4 and IPv6 coexisting for quite some time. There are many variables involved, on the social, geographical, and even regional level that are affecting the speed with which customers are approaching the question.

IPv6 is a new IP protocol mandated by the federal government for compliance across all organizations, It is designed to replace IPv4, the Internet protocol currently deployed and used most extensively throughout the world.

The benefits of IPv6 include:
- Simplified packet header for routing efficiency
- Mandatory IP Security (IPSec) implementation for all IPv6 devices
- Improved support for mobile IP and mobile computing devices
- Enhanced multicast support with increased addresses and efficient mechanisms

Cisco has been actively engaged in running IPv6 deployment councils for the last 2 years to provide ‘customer to customer’ forums to encourage discussion about the issue and to nurture an environment where customers can share their ideas and experiences.

Please visit Cisco’s IPv6 page to learn more.

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Authors: Wolfgang Fritsche & Karl Mayer @ IABG This whitepaper outlines the IPv6 security models and dual-stack (IPv6/IPv4) implications, which have been identified and analyzed within a study contracted by the European Commission to IABG and EADS. It expresses the opinions of the authors and not necessarily reflects the views of the European Commission. The scope of the study was to provide an analysis and evaluation of emerging and existing private and business user scenarios regarding new security models and architectures made possible by the use of IPv6 or in the face of IPv6-IPv4 coexistence as well as IPv6 security vulnerabilities, advantages and shortcomings. After having identified vulnerabilities and research gaps, recommendations for future activities were to be identified. During the study, stakeholders and experts from various research and business areas have been involved via direct contacts and via two workshops for enrichment and validation of the study results. Download whitepaper Additional information can be found on the European Commission's official IPv6 website: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6/

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Electronic Design's Bill Wong talks with Chairman Geoff Mulligan about IPSO Alliance, an open, informal and thought-leading association of like-minded organizations and individuals that promote the value of using the Internet Protocol for the networking of Smart Objects. For more information, visit IPSO Alliance.

http://engineeringtv.com/video/IPSO-Alliance-Promoting-the-use/

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Tokyo-Luxembourg-Boston - June 22, 2009 - The IPv6 Forum and its sub-organization, the IPv6 Ready Logo Committee, today announced the introduction of a new IPv6 Enabled Logo Program aimed at testing and validating Internet Service Providers (ISPs) for IPv6 readiness and adoption. 

"IPv6 needs to be integrated and offered as a service by all ISPs to sustain Internet growth and by the same token drive end-to-end innovation" said Dr. Vint Cerf, Internet Evangelist, Google & Honorary Chair, IPv6 Forum

The IPv6 Forum IPv6 Ready Logo program has clearly demonstrated the widespread support of IPv6 in products. The impressive list of vendors indicates the number of potential IPv6 users ready to use IPv6 and represents a real incentive for ISPs to enable IPv6 access for their customers. 

The IPv6 Forum has been tracking the adoption of IPv6 at ISPs and recognized the need for a quality assurance logo program for ISPs. The creation of this new logo program will support IPv6 deployment in networks at ISPs with the goal of sustaining quality IPv6 services.  

"The IPv6 Enabled ISP Logo Program will support ISPs in verifying and validating the integration of IPv6 in their networks when refreshing or building their IPv6 Internet infrastructure" said Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President. 

" The ISPs were the prime drivers of the IPv4 Internet and they are now even more crucial for the IPv6 Internet"  states Yanick Pouffary, Chair v6 Ready/Enabled Programs, NAv6TF Technology Director, IPv6 Forum Fellow. 

"We recognize the fact that the market needs the IPv6 Enabled ISP Logo to accelerate the introduction of IPv6 technology," said Hiroshi Esaki, Chairman of the IPv6 Logo Committee, Executive Director of IPv6 Promotion Council Japan and Board member of the WIDE Project.

Liu Dong, Chair v6 Enabled Program, China IPv6 Council, commented, "We deployed this IPv6 ISP logo program to foster deployment of IPv6 for the ISP world and we are looking forward to a positive response."

About the IPv6 Forum

The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of leading Internet service vendors, National Research & Education Networks (NRENs) and international ISPs, with a clear mission to promote IPv6 by improving market and user awareness, creating a quality and secure New Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology. The key focus of the IPv6 Forum today is to provide technical guidance for the deployment of IPv6. IPv6 Summits are organized by the IPv6 Forum and staged in various locations around the world to provide industry and market with the best available information on this rapidly advancing technology.  

For further information, please visit the IPv6 ISP Logo Program website: http://www.ipv6forum.com/ipv6_enabled  

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Tokyo-Luxembourg-Boston - June 8, 2009 - The IPv6 Forum and its sub-organization, the IPv6 Ready Logo Committee, today announced the introduction of a new IPv6 Enabled Logo Program aimed at testing and validating Web sites (WWW) for IPv6 readiness and adoption.

"This program is a good step in the right direction. IPv6 needs to be integrated in all web sites:" states Dr. Vint Cerf, Internet Evangelist, Google & Honorary Chair, IPv6 Forum

The IPv6 Forum IPv6 Ready Logo program has clearly demonstrated the widespread support of IPv6 in products. The impressive list of vendors indicates the number of potential IPv6 users ready to use IPv6 and represents a real incentive for web site owners to enable IPv6 access for their customers.

The IPv6 Forum has been tracking the adoption of IPv6 by Web sites and recognized the need for a quality assurance logo program for the Web world. The creation of the new logo program will support IPv6 deployment on Web sites with the goal of sustaining quality IPv6 solutions.

"The launch of the IPv6 Enabled WWW Logo Program is another strategic milestone that signals good integration of IPv6 for Web sites must be sustained to build the new Internet infrastructure" states Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President.

"The Web was the first killer app of the IPv4 Internet and no doubt it will be one of them for the IPv6 Internet" states Yanick Pouffary, NAv6TF Technology Director, IPv6 Forum Fellow and advisor to the IPv6 ready Logo program.

"We recognize the fact that the market needs the IPv6 Enabled WWW Logo to accelerate the introduction of IPv6 technology," states Hiroshi Esaki, Chairman of the IPv6 Logo Committee, Executive Director of IPv6 Promotion Council Japan and Board member of the WIDE Project.

Liu Dong, Chair China IPv6 Council, commented, "We deployed this IPv6 logo program to foster deployment of IPv6 for the Web world and we are looking forward to a positive response."

For "free" testing and registering your web site, please visit the IPv6 Enabled WWW Logo Program website: http://www.ipv6forum.com/ipv6_enabled

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The authors bring the necessary technology expertise and experience to identify the challenges and propose recommendations and solutions of great value to a world made of heterogeneous and widely un-interoperable networks designed with private addressing schemes that inhibit end to end applications and end 2 end services. Their extensive involvement in the standardisation bodies such as the IETF and knowledge spread at customer level in the design and deployment of networks especially using the new Internet Protocol are of paramount value to the reader as he can resource himself with first class knowledge to empower him to tackle the transition to IPv6 in great confidence.

Welcome to the New Two-Way Internet based on IPv6 supported by a solid first or last mile broadband access!

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IPv6 Security
by Scott Hogg (Author) and Eric Vyncke (Author)

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Executive Summary: The purpose of this planning guide is to provide United States (U.S.) Federal Government agency leaders with practical and actionable guidance on how to successfully integrate Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) throughout their enterprise. This guide has been updated from the original guide published in 2009 to aid in understanding the Federal Government’s Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) history, vision, current goals, and deadlines. Based on the information found in this document, the Agency Chief Information Officer (CIO), IPv6 Transition Managers, Chief Enterprise Architects, and Chief Acquisition Officers (CAO) can assess their own agency’s current IPv6 implementation progress and develop an agency-specific plan with detailed milestones to achieve the defined IPv6 goals for FY2012 and FY2014. Download the USGv6Roadmap: USGv6Roadmap.pdf Peter Tseronis Chairperson of the Federal IPv6 Task Force Chief Techology Officer, U.S. Department of Energy

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Under the patronage of Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media

Future Trends of the Internet The day-long event is organized by Jean-Louis Schiltz, Minister of Communications, and Luxembourg for ICT*, in close cooperation with Prof. Thomas Engel and Latif Ladid of the University of Luxembourg. In the course of the conference the Luxembourg IPv6 Council will be officially launched. The event takes place at the Centre culturel de rencontre - Neumünster Abbey (Salle Robert Krieps) in Luxembourg-Grund on 28 January 2009. Website: http://www.ipv6council.lu

Thomas Engel, Chair, Luxembourg IPv6 Council, Professor for Computer Networks and Telecommunications, University of Luxembourg

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The main objective of this present document is to describe the IPv6 Forum IPv6 Ready Logo Program, to describe the IPv6 Ready Test Specifications and IPv6 Ready Logo Phase Series and to provide a FAQ. The IPv6 Ready ( http://www.ipv6ready.org/) Logo Program provides conformance and interoperability test specifications based on open standards to support IPv6 deployment across the globe. Effective testing of IPv6 products is of critical importance in ensuring the deployment, interoperability, security and reliability of the IPv6 infrastructure. Authors: Yanick Pouffary, Erica Johnson and Hiroshi Miyata More information can be found here.

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