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Workshop on IPv6 |
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Geneva, Switzerland 4 — 5 September 2008 |
Contact: tsbworkshops@itu.int |
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Abstracts
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Session 1: Factual introduction: Current
situation |
Session Chair: Detlef Eckert, Advisor, European Commission (EC)
Objectives: This session will provide the status of
the current assignment of IPv4 and IPv6, including
an overview of real figures, such as the status of
current regulatory and policy regimes, and the
situation in developing countries. |
The 6DEPLOY Project for IPv6 Training and
Support for Deployments, Martin Potts,
IPv6 Forum
The Internet is now the main telecommunications
technology that underpins all aspects of business
and leisure, and as such is central to the economic
growth of a country. Awareness of the evolution of
the Internet, and providing support for the
introduction of IPv6 is therefore crucial as ICT
becomes a major theme for all nations.
The project 6DEPLOY (2008-2010) in the European
Commission’s 7th Framework programme (FP7) has a
specific goal to support the deployment of IPv6
within Africa, Latin America, Asia and Eastern
Europe, in order that the take-up of Internet-based
services in these countries is not hindered by the
lack of IPv4 Internet addresses. Training workshops,
access to experimental testbeds and practical
on-site assistance are the main tools used. Both
research organisations and commercial companies can
take advantage of this service, for the purpose of
improving the use of existing communication
infrastructures for all fields of research and
business.
This presentation describes what the project offers
and how to contact the members for arranging IPv6
training or support for IPv6 deployment in end
systems or the network. |
IPv6 in Bulgaria: New Opportunities for
Latecomers, Krasimir Simonski, SAITC
(Bulgaria)
This presentation provides the IPv6 vision of the
latecomers to Internet, or the countries who joined
Internet when IP addresses had already become a
limited resource. As a result of their late start,
they have to utilize now sets of addresses not
enough to meet their needs for addresses to be
assigned to the exponentially growing number of
servers and active Internet computers. They have to
use technologies like NAT (Network Address
Translation) which, however, hide vast information
hold on computers behind it. In this respect, IPv6
provides a solution to this challenge but on the
other hand, it is a serious challenge itself which
is to be addressed in a specific manner. The
presentation discusses the Bulgarian approach for
IPv6 deployment in a country which joined Internet
late and is already challenged by the shortage of IP
addresses. Government is to play a critical role for
introduction of IPv6 as well as for security and
stability of Internet in the country. |
Growing the Internet through the 21st
Century: Views on IP addressing, Eliot Lear,
CISCO
As the Internet is the heart of our business, Cisco
takes quite seriously the economic and policy
implications of the manner in which IPv4 and IPv6
addresses are managed as well as the transition to
IPv6. In March Cisco held a well attended workshop
on the topic of the economics of IP addressing and
routing. Many people from many countries,
representing many aspects of society, have worked
diligently over the last few years to evolve the way
in which the Internet grows, demonstrating the
fundamental resiliency of the existing RIR
framework. This presentation will provide an
overview of both past and ongoing work. |
IPv6 in China, New Olympics, New Internet
Economy and New Opportunities, Liu Dong,
BII Group
The presentation will share you the current progress
of IPv6 deployment in China and the way forward in
the future. As you know, in 2008, the IPv6
applications project has been listed in the national
strategic plans. China plays an important role in
IPv6 and hopes to become an engine to contribute to
the acceleration of deployment of IPv6 around the
world.
Also it will show you some exciting applications in
this Beijing Olympics 2008, which is the milestone
for China IPv6 development, and will be the
accelerator for deployment of the IPv6 networks. As
the world largest internet user country, China will
become one of the engines and flagships to deploy
IPv6. |
IPv6 – Challenges towards Transition, Akhil Verma, Tiscali International Network
Tiscali International Network (TINet) will be presenting a view on the take up of IPv6 as observed from a carrier prospective. Being a wholesale service provider puts TINet in a unique position to observe telcos/service providers on one side and end users on the other.
TINet presentation will broadly cover topics around:
- Challenges faced by telco’s currently towards IPv6 deployment
- IPv6 needs Vs market demands
- Can/should transition be enforced
- What's next
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IPv6 deployment in the Gulf Region, Mustapha Guirari, Case Technology
The Gulf countries are spending yearly considerable
amounts for the IT and new technologies, they have
implemented sophisticated applications in the public
and private sectors; their networking infrastructure
is up to date and ready for the deployment of IPv6;
however many factors are hindering this transition
and will eventually create a gap difficult to
bridge. This session exposes the various effort
developed for the last 7 years to create IPv6
awareness and tries to explain this status quo. |
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Session 2: Technical issues of IPv6
migration |
Session Chair: Detlef Eckert, Advisor, European Commission (EC)
Objectives: This session will address current
technical debates and key questions to enable
IPv4-IPv6 migration. The proposed technical
scenarios expected in migrating to IPv6 will be
presented, including the technical impediments, the
threats and the opportunities. It will also analyse
how ITU can use its strength as a unique
international SDO and global dialogue platform to
facilitate the process of NGN deployment in relation
with IPv4-Ipv6 migration. In addition, techniques
used to stretch the usage of IPv4, e.g. Network
Address Translation Protocol (NAT), will be
analyzed. This session will see inputs from all
relevant ITU Sectors. |
IPv6, DNS & ICANN’s Role, Leo Vegoda, ICANN and
IANA
DNS records for IPv6 addresses are very similar to
the records for IPv4 addresses. But deployment of
IPv6 records in the DNS needs support from
organisations at a number of different levels in the
DNS hierarchy. This talk will describe what is
needed, the current status and ICANN's role. |
Impact of IPv6 to an NGN and migration strategies,
Gyu Myoung Lee, Electronics and Telecommunications
Research Institute (ETRI)
This presentation introduces recent activities for
developing ITU-T recommendations on IPv6 in NGN and
considerations for IPv6 migration. It presents the
basic concept of IPv6-based NGN and impact of IPv6
to an NGN. Key technical solutions to support IPv6
in NGN are provided. For adopting IPv6 technologies
to an NGN and further standardization, roadmap items
are also presented. Finally, we discuss migration
strategies for successful IPv6 deployment in NGN. |
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IPv6 applications: Business and Technical
challenges from EUv6 Task Force perspective, Tayeb
Ben Meriem, European IPv6 Task Force |
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IPv6 Maturity and Deployment Challenges, Sheng
Jiang, HUAWEI Technologies Co. Ltd |
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Session 3: Economic dimension of
IPv6 adoption. What is at stake? |
Session Chair: Detlef Eckert, Advisor, European Commission (EC)
Objectives: This session will introduce
contributions to ITU-T Study Group 2 (C109 and
report from SG2 CG on IPv6) and Study Group 3 (C30,
C30-add.1, C50, C57) as well as other related
documents submitted to this workshop. |
Scarcity in IPv4 Addresses Transfer Market and the
Regional Internet Address Registries, Milton
Mueller, Professor, Syracuse University School of
Information Studies; XS4All Professor, Delft
University of Technology
We are running out of Internet addresses. This paper evaluates address transfer policies that Internet governance agencies are considering as a response to the depletion of the IPv4 address space. The paper focuses on proposals to allow organizations holding IPv4 addresses to sell address blocks to other organizations willing to buy them. This paper analyzes the economics of the proposed transfer policies, and conducts a systematic comparison of the policies proposed in the three main world Internet regions. It concludes that:
- Address transfer markets offer a pragmatic solution to the problem of reclaiming a substantial amount of unused IP address space and of re-allocating addresses to their most efficient uses
- The risks of instituting well-designed address transfer policies are small when compared to the potential benefits. The change is less radical than it appears.
- A failure to legitimize address transfer markets would create substantial risks of the institutionalization of gray or black markets in IPv4 address resources, leading to a deterioration of accurate registration and administration of the legacy address space. This could have severe negative implications for Internet security.
- If migration to IPv6 is beneficial, a transfer market could only prolong the transition, it could not stop it. Since we do not know how long it will take the global Internet to transition to IPv6, or even whether such a migration will succeed, a longer transition period may turn out to be very helpful.
- The proposed address transfer policies being considered by RIPE and APNIC are more liberal than ARIN’s. RIPE, ARIN and APNIC should strive to harmonize their transfer policies and (in the longer term) make inter-regional transfers possible.
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SG2 Contributions, Didier Le-Moine, Convener,
ITU-T SG2 CG on IPv6 |
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SG3 Contributions, Nabil Kisrawi, Permanent
representative to ITU, S.T.E. (Syria); Chairman of
the Arab Standardization Group |
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