Applying and Diffusing IPv6 the Key to Success
Applying and Diffusing IPv6 the Key to Success
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Not a new technology anymore, but a part of our everyday lives I am a senior member of research staff in Mobile Convergence Laboratory at SAMSUNG Electronics, in Korea. Since 2000, I have been engaged in several research fields on Internet Engineering Task Force as well as IPv6 International Forum. I was also responsible for IPv6 Convergence Working Group in IPv6 Forum Korea as well as IETF Mobility Working Group in Wireless Internet Forum as a chairman. Since 2004, I have been researching at the IEEE 802.21 Working Group (Media Independent Handover) and IEEE 802.11u Task Group (Wireless Interworking with External Networks) to develop fast handover solutions between IEEE 802 family and Cellular. In 64th and 65th IETF, I was a co-chair of 16ng BOF: IPv6 over IEEE 802.16(e) Networks. By Soohong Daniel Park
It is difficult to believe that 15 years have already passed since discussions began on the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6) through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). At first, IPv6 began as BOF (Birds of a Feather) meetings with the name "IPNG (Internet Protocol Next Generation) at the 30th IETF conference, held on 1994. Since then, the IPNG Working Group was approved and IPNG Working Group had proceeded till the 51th IETF conference on 2001. Officially in Salt Lake City, on Dec. 2001, IPv6 clarified that it is a next-generation technology to substitute IPv4 technology as it commenced its activities as the IPv6 Working Group instead of IPNG terminology which has been used as a pronoun of IPv6 in the meanwhile. Since then, numerous IPv6 technologies were standardized and researched through the IPv6 Working Group and IPv6 Working Group activity concluded with the 64th IETF conference, held in Vancouver, Canada in Nov. 2005. IPv6 Working Group's activity conclusion contains several significances. Namely key technologies necessary for IPv6 were mostly standardized and completed and it is dominant that IPv6 is not a subject to be dealt in one Working Group within IETF anymore. Accordingly, success or failure of IPv6 does not depend on current technical issues, but on actual application as well as its diffusion. IPv6's application is being attained in a number of fields already through V6OPS (IPv6 Operations) and the movement in diverse environment, which made the most of IPv6 such as IPv6 over Low Power WPAN, and IPv6 over IEEE 802.16(e), begins in earnest. The 6LoWPAN Working Group (IPv6 over Low Power WPAN) has concentrated on Adaptation Layer technology standardization for IPv6 during the past year. Also, 6LoWPAN has studied how to apply IPv6 to IEEE 802.15.4-based Low-Rate WPAN and carried out functions such as IPv6 Header Compression, UDP/TCP/ICMPv6 Header Compression, Mesh Routing through Adaptation Layer and IPv6 address automatic formation method that used IEEE 802.15.4's 16 bit & 64 bit address. IEEE 802.15.4 that technology 6LoWPAN is using, is a technology, which is being used by being adapted already in ZigBee. Since 6LoWPAN's technologies are being developed to cope with ZigBee's Network Layer, it comes to be possible for users to communicate through IPv6 anywhere by 6LoWPAN technology. At this 65th IETT International Standardization Conference, new matters such as IPv6 Bootstrapping and 6LoWPAN Neighbor Discovery Otpimization, Stateful Header Compression (ROHC), Transport/Application Analysis, Mesh (Ahhoc) Routing, and Security Analysis were selected. IPv6 over IEEE 802.16(e) Networks (16ng BOF) held the second BOF meeting since it began the first BOF in last 64th IETF conference. 16ng BOF is studying how to apply IPv6 function on IEEE 802.16(e) Broadband Wireless technology which is well known as WiBro at home and as WiMAX abroad. 16ng BOF is in the stage for a formal Working Group approval and the next 66th IEFT conference is anticipated to hold the first 16ng Working Group meeting. Already IPv6 is being studied as it is applied in diverse environments. IPv6 must be regarded not as a new technology anymore, but rather a part of our lives. IPv6's success depends on its actual application and dissemination.

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