2003.12.31
Kilnam Chon
Chair, Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium(APAN)


        Position Paper for Global IPv6 Service Launch Event

IPv6 has been under development for 10 years or more with much research
and development effort so far.  Numerous testbeds have been deployed, but
little production service deployment has taken place with little traffic.
The IPv6 deployment turns out to need substantial inertia to snowball.

Asia Pacific Advanced Network Consortium(APAN) decided to form IPv6 Task Force
to deploy production service of native gigabit IPv6 networks in Asia-Pacific
research and education community during its meeting in August 2003.
Its purpose is to promote the production service of IPv6 based on the past
technology buildup in Japan and elsewhere in Asia, and the major deployment
commitment made in China including its research and education community.
Our initial goal is to deploy the IPv6 service up to 10% of the research and
education networks in Asia-Pacific.

Through the deployment effort, we expect the following;

(1) IPv6 service will be ubiquitous in APAN community.
(2) We will develop engineering know-how on deployment of IPv6 services.
(3) We will produce large number of network and application engineers with
    working knowledge of IPv6 services.

With the above effort, we would contribute to the Internet community on
IPv6 service deployment.

APAN Task Force is formed with initial members from China, Japan and Korea
with native gigabit IPv6 networks, and is headed by Prof. Jianping Wu(Chair),
Prof. Hiroshi Esaki(Co-Chair), and Dr. Kisik Park(Co-Chair).
There are three groups in the task force; Technology, Operation and Application
headed by co-chairs from three countries.  We expect more APAN member countries
will join the task force to deploy native gigabit IPv6 networks for production
service later as they become ready.

APAN is also looking for collaboration with research and education networks
in other continents including DANTE and Internet 2, and had the first
global coordination meeting during Internet 2 Meeting in October 2003 with
further meetings during Global IPv6 Service Launch Event in Brussels and
APAN Meetings in Honolulu in January 2004.