Forum Organizer and Chair: Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum
ABSTRACT
The chips are down! The IPv4 address space has melt down to just 4%. The 180 Million IP addresses are expected to be fully assigned by March 2011. Just 2 years to go to make the transition to IPv6. Is the entire Internet community aware of this? Are they getting ready for it? Should the users be involved? So what's at stake? Is Asia ahead of Europe and the US? What needs to be done? What is the easiest way? Who is doing what? Why is the US not taking leadership? What's the ROI needed for this? Questions after questions and any answer trigger other questions and the opinions are diverse. This panel has invited the best experts on IPv6 to share with us their best practices and the way forward to reap best benefits from this gigantic first time upgrade of the Internet. Maybe the last one for decades to come.
IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of international Internet service providers (ISPs) and National Research & Education Networks (NRENs), with a 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. Please visit http://www.ipv6forum.com.