<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; ">EIF Dinner Debate</span></h1><p align="justify"><strong>Date: Tuesday 15 May 2012<br>Time: 19.30-21.30<br>Venue: Members Restaurant, European Parliament in Brussels </strong><strong style="color: rgb(21, 89, 145); font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; "><a target="_blank" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=european+parliament+rue+wiertz+60+bruxelles&aq=&sll=50.839918,4.375219&sspn=0.008957,0.022724&ie=UTF8&hq=european+parliament&hnear=Rue+Wiertz+60,+1047+Bruxelles,+Belgium&ll=50.838617,4.375305&spn=0.008957,0.022724&t=h&z=16" style="COLOR: rgb(21,89,145); FONT-SIZE: 12px; TEXT-DECORATION: none">(see map)</a></strong></p><p align="justify"><strong>IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6)</strong>
is a version of the Internet Protocol (IP) intended to succeed IPv4,
which is the protocol currently used to direct almost all Internet
traffic. </p><p align="justify">In February 2011, the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA), responsible for the global coordination of the
DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources, <b>ran out of IPv4 addresses</b>. Currently, while each Regional Internet Registry has still some IPv4 addresses to allocate, <b>it is impossible to predict when they will also run out of them</b>.</p><p align="justify"><b>The depletion of IP addresses will endanger the development of Internet and ICT services as we know it</b>.
Therefore, it is high time IPv6 to be adopted for continued Internet
growth. Also, there are major technical challenges to the deployment of
IPv6 in regard to its compatibility to IPv4 and the interaction between
IPv4 and IPv6 users. </p><h2 align="justify">Programme</h2><p align="justify"><em>Welcome and introduction:<br></em><strong>Ivailo Kalfin, MEP and EIF Political Member</strong></p><p align="justify"><em>Special Guest:<br></em><strong>Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google</strong></p><p align="justify">Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "<strong>the fathers of the Internet</strong>".</p><p align="justify">Since
September 2005, Cerf has worked for Google as a Vice President and
Chief Internet Evangelist. In this function he has become well known for
his predictions on how technology will affect future society,
encompassing such areas as artificial intelligence, environmentalism, <strong>the advent of IPv6</strong> and the transformation of the television industry and its delivery model.</p><p align="justify">Since
2010, Cerf has served as a Commissioner for the Broadband Commission
for Digital Development, a UN body which aims to make broadband internet
technologies more widely available.</p><div>
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