[kictanet] World IP V6 Day Press Release

[Barrack Otieno]

*World IPv6 launch Breakfast organized by the Internet Society Kenya Chapter
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*Press Release*

*31st May 2012***

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The Internet Society Kenya Chapter is organizing the World IPv6 Launch
breakfast at the I Hub on June 6 2012 from 8 am. to 11 am.

This is a global launch date for IPv6 supported by the Internet Society,
all the major technology players like Google, Microsoft, and Cisco, as well
as governments and companies like Face book, Yahoo, and many more who are
adding support for this new technology.  Obviously this is something that
has been in the making for many years, and last year there was a 24 hour
global IPv6 test flight with quite a number of top 1000 websites that
clearly showed that the switch will be perfectly safe.  With IPv6 being the
'new normal,' and now that IPv4 address supplies have run out globally,
there is real economic need.

The specific requirements for participation in the various categories of
access networks, home routers, and websites are as follows:

For access networks a commitment to make IPv6 part of their regular
business is required. This means new subscribers get IPv6 on by default
from June 6th 2012 and no special user configuration required to access the
IPv6 Internet. To enable verification of progress towards this goal, access
networks are also required to be delivering 1% of visits to major
IPv6-enabled websites over IPv6 by 6th June. The level of IPv6 usage
depends on the IPv6 capabilities and configuration of home networks, so the
enabled customer base needed to be greater than 1% to reach this target.
Measurements are being made by the major website participants to verify
meaningful participation.

The second category of participant is home router vendors. Again the
requirement is that IPv6 become part of regular business. This means a
majority of products shipping with IPv6 on by default, meaning no user
configuration is required to use IPv6. The University of New Hampshire
Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) provides independent verification of IPv6
interoperability.

Finally, websites wishing to participate are required to permanently enable
IPv6 access to their main website, meaning IPv6-enabled users can now
access their content over IPv6 without any additional configuration.

Registration will be required since there are limited slots, to register
kindly send an email to register at isoc.or.ke before Monday 4th June 2012.
For more details please visit http://www.worldipv6launch.org/form/, all
inquiries to info at isoc.or.ke.



Issued by the Internet Society Kenya Chapter


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