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Information For Policy Makers and Regulators

The Internet community recognizes the importance of mutual collaboration among the industry, policy makers, and regulators in order to achieve a coherent strategy to sustain the transitional framework between IPv4 and IPv6.

A ministerial meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in June 2008 set a new tone. One of the published outcomes of this meeting, the "Seoul Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy" included the following sentence:

"Encourage the adoption of the new version of the Internet Protocol 6 (IPv6), in particular through its timely adoption by governments as well as large private sector users of IPv4 addresses, in view of the ongoing IPv4 depletion."

Recognition of the approach of the current IPv4 address free pool's exhaustion in a few years' time and concerns about the delay of IPv6 deployment by policy makers and regulators is welcomed: however, simultaneously, we need to understand some caveats with such a call for a regulatory initiative, based on our previous experiences of successes and failures in this industry.

The Internet has been able to achieve its current phenomenal status as an important social infrastructure through the wave of progressive industry deregulation in the communications sector. Vast private investment in new technologies and services has created new markets, and turned innovation into ubiquitous services. Accepting constraints in the form of regulatory impositions may risk stifling the current Internet's virtues, such as fostering creativity, efficiency, and fluidity.

The Internet community consists of various stakeholders, such as industries, consumers, regulators, and public policy makers, and they need to understand the mutually supporting roles during this period of transition. We must create and sustain these transitional frameworks within this deregulated industry so that we can preserve these vital characteristics of the Internet.

Information issued by governmental bodies in the AP region

Australia

China

Hong Kong

Indonesia

Japan

Korea

  • IPv6 deployment in Korea- by Mr. Park, Syung-Kyoo, National Internet Development Agency of Korea (NIDA), September 2008

Malaysia

Singapore

Taiwan

Information issued by governmental bodies in other parts of the world

USA

Information issued by standard-setting bodies in the world

USA

Other useful information



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