DOST-7, internet society support adaptation of new internet protocol
CEBU CITY, April 26 (PIA) -- To prepare the local information technology community for the worldwide launching of internet protocol version 6 (PIv6) on June 6, 2012, the Department of Science and Technology held a media briefing on April 23 for IT stakeholders in Cebu City. DOST said that the shift in protocol standard is an important global IT event for the Philippines.
DOST-7 Regional Director Rene Burt Llanto said orientation activities held by the agency encourages state universities to embrace new technology.
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) according to DOST-ASTI is the next generation of internet addresses that support longer and vast amount of IP addresses than its predecessor, IPv4.
Llanto added the Philippines can adopt this technology and start competing on a higher level. IPv6 is more on labor and knowledge.
InfoWeapons Chairman and CTO Lawrence Hughes said that Asia is kind of left out when it comes to internet access. With IPv6, it will be easier for access to information and education.
“Countries like Malaysia, Japan, China and Korea have been widely using IPv6 in their broadcast, educational institution, work/office and home internet access, access to information and knowledge,” Huges continued.
People often misunderstood that it is expensive to access IPv6. Hughes emphasized that it is inexpensive and it is easy to get it now and people can even began working on it today.
Malaysia is the only country in Asia that is fully in IPv6 stage 1 access making it the third in world at 37.11 % in penetration and this made Malaysia move faster, noted Hughes.
The global internet society felt that as IPv4 addresses depleted it become increasingly scarce that there is a need of transition.
Raymond Nunez of UP Diliman in Manila said it was UP Diliman that first access the IPv6 in the country and is providing IPv6 services to about 15,000 devices.
Nunez urged universities to use this new technology for the easy access of everything and for the comfort especially of the students. He emphasized that there is no reason for these universities not to have access of it.
The evolution of IPv6 from IPv4 won’t be easy and would create a big impact in the society, but to have IPv6 means to get away from the limitations of IPv4, said Nunez.
According to Hughes, the struggles in promoting this technology are that it is expensive to have an access, highly the lack of knowledge and training, and the migration problem of how to tell people about IPv6.
“Filipino can create this kind of technology if you train them. IPv6 is a journey, we need to go there all of us at the same time,” Hughes said.
Ray Networks Inc., (RNI) a Cagayan de Oro based- IT company said, IPv4 was globally exhausted on February 3, 2011 and it would be totally gone by 2013-2014. IPv4 can no longer contain the rapid expansion of the Internet.
Each device that connects to the Internet requires a unique IP address, under IPv4, there are not enough IP addresses to accommodate the growing demand for internet connectivity, RNI added.
“There are very limited addresses compared to the population,” RNI noted.
According to a description from www.worldipv6launch.org, “IPv4 has approximately four billion IP addresses (the sequence of numbers assigned to each internet-connected device). The explosion in the number of people, devices, and web services on the Internet means that IPv4 is running out of space.”
The article continued that “IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol which provides more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses will connect the billions of people not connected today and will help ensure the Internet can continue its current growth rate indefinitely.”
DOST-ASTI in cooperation with DOST-7, DOST – Information and Communication Technology Office (ICTO), the National Computer Center (NCC), and Central Visayas Information Sharing Network(CVISNET) conducted the press conference on April 23, 2012 was a way of informing the public about this new wave of technology.
According to DOST-7 regional director Burt Llanto, government agencies or institutions can approach DOST-7 in cooperation with DOST – ASTI and Globe Telecom to coordinate with them for the access of IPv6. (mbcn/PIA-7 & Darling May Deita/CNU Intern)