# This is the third try since the previously posted message have not # delivered. Sorry if you receive duplicated messages. Hello IPv6 folks, "The Global IPv6 Summit in Japan" will be held in the next week of IETF San Diego at Osaka city, Japan. Most presentations/panels are spoken in Japanese but we prepare translators between Japanese and English. So, we would like to call for your participation. Also you have a chance to appeal your IPv6 business in a session. We would also like to call for your presentations. // Steering Group of the Global IPv6 Summit in Japan ---- Call for participation and presentations for "the Global IPv6 Summit in Japan" <<Abstract>> The Global IPv6 Summit, under the organization of the IPv6 Forum, is held regularly around the world to accelerate the deployment of IPv6. We are happy to announce that this conference will be held in Japan, one of the leading countries in the areas of IPv6 development and deployment. The Internet is built on the foundations of the Internet Protocol (IP). The current version of IP is named IPv4 after its version number. The total number of devices that IPv4 can identify is limited to about 4.3 billion. It's hard to see the Internet becoming the foundation of a true, universal communications infrastructure when this number is compared to the human population. In fact, it is expected that the entire address space of IPv4 will be exhausted by around 2008. So, address assignment/allocation is currently being carried out under a very restrictive policy. NAT (Network Address Translator) was introduced as a temporary solution, resulting in the loss of some of the original functionality of the Internet. The principles of the Internet are end-to-end and bidirectional communication. This means every node can communicate with every other freely without any restrictions caused by intermediate nodes. Since NAT broke these principles, it became difficult for unexpected novel applications to appear in the current environment of the Internet. To resolve the exhaustion of IP addresses, extending its address space is a straightforward solution. IPv6, the next generation of IP, provides a huge number of IP addresses and makes NAT obsolete allowing the Internet to recover its original principles. IPv6 is a paradigm recovery for applications. After deploying IPv6 and recovering end-to-end/bidirectional communication, we cannot imagine what kind of applications will appear. This conference will introduce the current deployment status of IPv6 throughout the world. Also, panel discussions are planned, both on "How IPv6 will Change Business" and on "Case Studies: Making the Change to IPv6". Getting Internet people together, including those who are involved in IPv6 activities and IPv4 business and management, we intend to discuss the future of Internet business and the direction of engineering. This conference will be beneficial for everyone including, but not limited to, engineers, researchers, network managers and business people. We would like to invite each of you to participate. <<The Host>> Steering Group of the Global IPv6 Summit in Japan (Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) <<Logistics>> Date: December 18 - 19, 2000 (As a part of Internet Week 2000) Venue: Grand Cube Osaka (Osaka International Convention Center) 5-3-51, Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0005, JAPAN Phone: +81-6-4803-5555 Fax: +81-6-4803-5620 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gco.co.jp/index.html (The same place as Internet Week 2000) <<Registration Fee>> <Conference Fee> Early registration Regular/ discount On-site registration (until Oct 31) Non-student 10,000 JPY 15,000 JPY Student 2,000 JPY 2,000 JPY <Reception Fee> Non-student 5,000 JPY Student 3,000 JPY <<Program>> December 18 (Mon) Keynote Speech 1: Dr. Jun Murai, WIDE Project Session 1: Business report on IPv6 in Japan Session 2: Status report from Asian countries Session 3: Panel on how IPv6 will change business Reception December 19 (Tue) Keynote Speech 2: Dr. Steve Deering, Cisco Systems Session 4: Business report on IPv6 around the world Session 5: Case Studies: Making the Change to IPv6 <<Participation>> This conference will be held as a part of Internet Week 2000. Please refer to the following page for registration: http://www.jp.ipv6forum.com/ <<Presentation Proposals>> The program committee calls for presentation proposal for "Session 4: Business report of IPv6 around the world". Candidates are sTLA holders and IPv6 vendors. Please propose a "10 minutes" presentation on your IPv6 business. If you would like to give a presentation, please send an e-mail message in the following form. Please note that we may not accept all proposals due to the time limitations of the program. Format: See below Deadline: September 30, 2000 Notification date: October 6, 2000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: presentation proposal Name : Title : Email : Telephone number: Organization : Department : Your proposal in plain text (no more than 250 words) explaining as concretely as possible your point of view and what kind of presentation can be expected. ---- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------