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Report on the IGF Hyderabad Workshop42 IPv6: The solution for the future Internet (Workshop Nr. 42, 4th Dec. 2008, 09.00 – 10.30, Room 4) Organisers and Contacts ERNET, India: Dr. Dipak Singh,
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Telscom, Switzerland: Dr. Sathya Rao,
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6CHOICE: The Organisation of this workshop was facilitated by active participation of European funded project ‘India-Europe cooperation in promoting IPv6 deployment’ (www.6choice.eu). The project have assembled different stakeholders of future Internet in India and Europe to promote IPv6 through interconnecting ERNET and GEANT networks with native IPv6 and doing multiple experiments across and through organizing workshops and training events. Contact:
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Partner Organisations ERNET, India European Commission Telscom, Switzerland IPv6 Forum, Luxembourg, ISOC, Geneva SIFY; India Panelists The following were invited to participate as panelists to the workshop: Dr. Mario Campolargo, Director, European Commissin, Brussels Dr. Sathya Rao, Director, Telscom, Switzerland Dr. Govind, Director, Dept. Of Telecommunications, Govt. Of India Mr. Philippe Cousin, ETSI, Sophia Antipolis, France Mr. Martin Potts, Director, Martel, Switzerland Mr. P.K. Saji, Vice President, SIFY; India Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi, ISOC Moderator: Dr. Sathya Rao, Telscom, Switzerland Topic Background WSIS has to build the international policies (with the support of all nations involved) to make the future Internet an essential part of governance through participation of the citizens. At present the Internet is dominated by the developed world who invented the Internet and associated protocols (IP version 4) . With the limited address space of IPv4, the emerging economies and developing world has no Internet resources with the present Internet. The system is also built up with complex NATs to develop the security, which however creates problem of privacy protection. The IPv6 protocol developed over last 10 years with large address space (128 bits) and improved functionalities (QoS, security and privacy) has the potential for balanced address distribution across all nations and citizens will allow the development of future Internet, as the platform for all communication infrastructure (quadplay) in creating a balanced information society of the future. Goal of the Panel The goal of the panel was to discuss different perspectives of IPv6 with respect to the Internet technology, its impact on social, economic and policy issues and the impact of IPv6 for the Internet Governance with distribution of resources equitably and in a non-discriminatory manner at the international level. The panelists were expected to bring the main issues in discussion to the forefront, to the notice of public-private partnership in promoting IPv6 adoption at international level and to promote its deployment and operation through policy guidelines, pilot projects, awareness creation and training. Summary of Discussion: More than 120 participants from across the globe participated very actively in this workshop. Dr. Sathya Rao introduced the main issue of current IPv4 network and constraints for growth, due to depleting address space. He emphasized more on the need to adopt IPv6 in the emerging economies and developing world, to meet the challenges of future society at par with the developed world. The time is ripe with the maturity of IPv6 technology, and the plans of number of countries to promote the networked society for improved Governance, social coherence and economical development. He provided an overview of IPv6 activities in Europe and European Commission’s directive to promote IPv6 deployment with a goal of reaching 25% Internet Users with IPv6 until end of 2010, and co-operation with Indian stakeholders with 6CHOICE Project, for international promotion. He showed the technical issues involved with a video so as to create awareness of new technology to the common man. He introduced panelists to the audience. Dr. Govind of Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India provided the plans of Indian Government in promoting IPv6 through policy declaration. The Education and Research Network of India ‘ERNET’ connecting more than 1300 universities and research institutes has been made IPv6 enabled and the connectivity has been extended to the European GEANT network with native IPv6 connection. All 15 nodes of ERNET are also implemented as dual stack PoPs and number of experiments are being carried out. National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) has been implemented so that all national Internet traffic can be better managed. The Indian GRID network GARUDA has also been IPv6 enabled recently. Thus India is at par with international activities in the academic world. However, the commercial business cases not being so clear the IPv6 take up is slow in the commercial world. Dr. Mario Campolargo from the European Commission citing the EC directive to promote IPv6, explained the reasons for which European Commission sees a bright future for the IPv6 based future Internet to address scalability of network and services addressing the Internet of things with the extended address space, quality of service, improved security and privacy protection etc… He also emphasized the importance of IPv6 in international Internet Governance for social, economic and security reasons. Dr. Mario Campolargo called upon the nations to look seriously at IPv6 adoption in their respective country through policy guidelines for skills development by appropriate awareness creation and training. He said the need of the hour is to create IPv6 content, so that users can be also included in the IPv6 promotion. Mr. Martin Potts from Switzerland, who is leading the European project 6DEPLOY, which has created the IPv6 training modules. He presented different ongoing activities with IPv6 deployment around the world, and recommended the IGF participants to promote IPv6 in their respective countries through policy guidelines and take appropriate actions. Mr. Philippe Cousin of ETSI, representing IPv6 system conformance programme presented the audience with open source tool kits and applications for IPv6 development and deployment. Mr. Asraf Ali, on behalf of Mr. Saji and SIFY provided the business case of IPv6 in India and explained their plans to introduce commercial IPv6 services in India. He said already some pilots are working with their clients and the network during the IGF event in Hyderabad sponsored by SIFY is IPv6 enabled. Mr. Alaa Al-Din Al-Radhi of ISOC brough perspective of IPv6 in Arabic region to highlight how serious IPv6 is and how the developing countries who do not have much Internet penetration so far has given more attention to IPv6, so that future Internet in this region can be at the same level as developed world in the future. Participants from the audience participated very actively in discussions and the organizers were very happy with the results achieved in this 90 minutes workshop with eminent panelists. The results were reflected later in the IGF plenary during the discussion on IPv4/IP6 transition issues.
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