[Chapter-delegates] REGULATORY, FINANCING AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS FOR THE IPV6 WITH SPECIAL GUEST VINT CERF

[Rudi Vansnick]

EIF Dinner Debate

Date: Tuesday 15 May 2012
Time: 19.30-21.30
Venue: Members Restaurant, European Parliament in Brussels (see map)

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is a version of the Internet Protocol (IP) intended to succeed IPv4, which is the protocol currently used to direct almost all Internet traffic.

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, ran out of IPv4 addresses. Currently, while each Regional Internet Registry has still some IPv4 addresses to allocate, it is impossible to predict when they will also run out of them.

The depletion of IP addresses will endanger the development of Internet and ICT services as we know it. 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.

Programme

Welcome and introduction:
Ivailo Kalfin, MEP and EIF Political Member

Special Guest:
Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google

Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet".

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, the advent of IPv6 and the transformation of the television industry and its delivery model.

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.

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