Introduction
by
Alex Lightman, Publisher
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2005 is shaping up as the Year of International
Collaboration for IPv6, as well as the year that IPv6
and a select few other technologies become widely
known as The New Internet. As I write this, I am preparing
to travel to New Zealand for an IPv6 seminar sponsored
in part by the New Zealand government, and to the
consortium meeting for HITLab NZ. HITLab stands for
Human Interface Technology Laboratory, which is
directed by Prof. Mark Billinghurst, who earned his
doctorate at the University of Washington in Seattle. He
is now helping to create novel possibilities for government,
industry and academia to collaborate in countries
around the world. The IPv6 community needs people
like Prof. Billinghurst, who integrate IPv6 directly
into their work. Once it's part of a research institute,
the invisible advantages of IPv6 can be made more
tangible and comprehensible to others, and diffused
to other countries and societies.
In the spirit of collaboration, I am very proud to
announce that the team that brings you this 6Sense
newsletter and that organized the IPv6 Summits in
San Diego, Arlington, Santa Monica, and Reston, will
soon be presenting The Coalition Summit for IPv6.
As with our most recent Summit last December,
this event will also be held at the Hyatt Regency
Hotel in Reston, Virginia, in cooperation with the
Dept. of Defense IPv6 Transition Office. This time
we will be honored to host representatives from the
militaries, homeland defense forces, governments,
industry, and academia from a number of countries
(both large and standard-setting as well as small,
smart and nimble) that are on friendly and constructive
terms with the US government. Our focus will be on
international collaboration, and our intention
is to give participants both inspiration and
new possibilities from the people that they will meet.
We are honored that both of our grand sponsors, Spirent
Federal and Juniper, will be returning as grand sponsors,
as will several gold sponsors, including Lucent. We
welcome your inquiries about participation to info@usipv6.com.
Web information can be found at www.coalitionsummit.com.
In this issue, we are please to present an exciting
article on IPv6 for Consumer Electronics
by Theodore Tanner of Microsoft, an enlightening
Overview of the Ubiquitous Internet
by Jean-Francois Tremblay of Hexago, and an
important Perspective on Why the DoD
Needs IPv6 Right Now from David Goodwin
of Houston Associates. I've also written an article
on IPv6 as an Instrument of Freedom
Amplification, in response to and consonant with
President Bush's Inauguration Speech. We hope these
articles are both informative and stimulating for
our readers, and invite feedback and comment. We look
forward to a constructive and fruitful year, and to
an IPv6 community that is rapidly growing both in
size and cohesiveness.
Sincerely,
Alex Lightman
CEO, IPv6 Summit, Inc.
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The Ubiquitous Internet
Jean-Francois
Tremblay
Hexago
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Internet based networking is no longer only a matter
of connecting computers together. Consumer devices
using the Internet Protocol are invading our houses
right now, competing with the traditional telephone
and TV networks, creating a communications and entertainment
revolution. In the not-so-distant future, every single
device and appliance able to exchange data will be
connected in a network. The flurry of new IP-based
devices presented at CES 2005 is an indication of
this trend.
However, the current generation of the Internet Protocol
introduced in 1981 is not adapted to this new world
of numerous, always-on and smaller mobile devices.
One of the requirements for this new Ubiquitous Internet
is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Using IPv6
today, along with some innovative technologies from
Hexago, can improve the customer experience and simplify
the deployment of IP-based applications.
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IPv6 for Consumer Electronics
Theodore
C. Tanner
Microsoft Corporation
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Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is a critical
enabling technology that will help ensure the Internet
can support a growing user base and the increasingly
large number of IP-enabled consumer electronics devices.
The current Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) has
served as the underlying protocol for the Internet
for almost 30 years and is showing its limitations.
Its robustness, scalability, and limited feature set
is now challenged by the growing need for millions
of new unique IP addresses, spurred in large part
by the rapid growth of new IP broadband network-aware
consumer devices. Thus the need for the more comprehensive
IPv6 protocol.
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A Perspective on IPv6 and DoD Transformation - Why
does the DoD NEED IPv6 Right Now?
David
N. Goodwin
Houston Associates
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IPv6 will create a military advantage. While
many technology advocates have stressed that adoption
of IPv6 will improve infrastructure, extend addressing
and a host of other technical improvements, the single
biggest DoD impetus is the shift to NETWORK-CENTRIC
operations. DoD requirements have historically been
technology accelerators, from aviation to dial tones,
but it is the ability to successfully execute military
strategy and tactics that is still the number one
mission.
The shift to true network-centricity allows for a
host of capabilities: dynamic situational awareness;
flexible, mobile, and secure “infostructure;”
holistic information assurance (Defense in Depth);
use of COTS; collaboration; standards-based protocols;
bandwidth on demand; converged communications; and
converged voice/ video/ data/ graphic 2D & 3D
as well as auto-configuration that will allow the
use of many new devices without detailed technical
support – for instance, sensor webs that can
be deployed by ordinary soldiers or air-dropped with
an absolute minimum of manual configuration.
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IPv6 as an Instrument of Freedom Amplification
Alex
Lightman
CEO, IPv6 Summit, Inc.
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On January 20, 2005, President George W. Bush was
sworn
in for his second term, and gave a speech that
sent shock waves around the world, because many leaders
could infer that it announced a crusade against non-democracies.
Since Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Russia are
more or less allied with the US against Al-Qaeda and
other terrorist organizations, and China and Tibet
are not free by American definitions, not to mention
Iran, North Korea, and a host of other nations, the
speech seemed to set the bar for America’s goal
– a world without un-free countries – well
beyond the grasp of a nation that is running half
trillion dollar trade deficits and half trillion dollar
federal budget deficits.
After this speech, the US seems faced with a difficult
choice: either spend hundreds of billions or even
trillions of dollars (that give no return on investment)
in an attempt to improve the lives of others that
might just get many of them killed, or don’t
spend the money or the time, and fall short of the
promised support, a globalized version of the call
on Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Hussein that was
met with inadequate support and was crushed. I say
“seems” because there is a new approach
that the Bush administration might take which could
help it meet its stated objectives (some of which
I will quote below from the speech transcript), while
at the same time not running the same risks as the
Iraq war.
The new approach is to provide Internet-enabled communications
devices over the next five years to people who would
not get them otherwise. If the US is budgeting for
the entire world what it is spending on Iraq plus
other aid programs and subsidies, it would have about
$200 billion to put towards helping other nations.
I believe that an IPv6-enabled device – if designed
to be produced for minimum cost and manufactured in
the billions – could be made for as little as
$20. At $20 each, with $200 billion annually, the
US could provide 10 billion devices a year. This is
more than the number of people on earth (about 6.3
billion), so we could spend less, say $20 billion
per year, and still give one billion IPv6-enabled
communicators (herein called v6 Communicators) out
annually, and by 2010 have every single human being
have an Internet device.
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