organised by Victor Tang, President, Singapore IPv6 Forum

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PENANG, MALAYSIA – SAN JOSE, USA - LUXEMBOURG, May 25, 2012 – The IPv6 Forum Education Logo Program Committee releases a new program: The IPv6 Education Security Certification Logo Program. This program will certify Security Courses, Trainers and Engineers with the Gold Logo level.

Download the press release: v6-sec.pdf

Download the Certification Requirements: v6-Sec- Requirements.pdf

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Minister Allawi ., Chair, IPv6 Council Iraq

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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.

Professor Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass

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Paris V6 World Congress 2013: GOING MOBILE

BROADBAND FORUM AND IPv6 FORUM WORK TOGETHER

P&T Pioneers an IPv6 Pilot Service in Luxembourg

IPv6 Forum Italia Has Been Formed

The IPv6 Forum IPsec Ready Logo Program