The IPv6 Forum (http://www.ipv6forum.com) is a world-wide consortium of leading Internet vendors, Industry, and Research & Education Networks, with a clear mission to promote IPv6 by dramatically improving market and user awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure new Generation Internet, and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology,embracing a moral responsibility to the world.

The IPv6 Forum was created by the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF http://www.ietf.org/)IPv6 Working Group and the Deployment WG, led then by Jim Bound who supported Dr Latif Ladid's proposal at the IETF IPv6 WGinterim meeting on Feb 5th, 1999 in Grenoble, France, and then at the IETF meeting in Minneapolis in April 1999 which was adopted andlaunched in May 1999. The IPv6 Forum is the only body which has an endorsement from the IAB (Internet Architecture Board), the IETFIPv6 WG, and the Internet Society (ISOC) to promote IPv6 worldwide. Dr. Vint Cerf has joined this initiative as its Honorary Chairman to strengthen its mission.

Mr Latif Ladid, President of Global IPv6 Forum

The IPv6 FORUM has:

• Established an open, international FORUM of IPv6 expertise on a voluntary basis

• Shared IPv6 knowledge and experience among members and non-members

• Promoted new Internet models and global solutions based on IPv6

•Promoted interoperable testing thru the IPv6 Ready Logo program: http://www.ipv6ready.org

• Created IPv6 Forum Chapters (10) and IPv6 Task Forces (25) around the world

• Addressed worldwide issues that create barriers to IPv6 deployment

• Organized over 50 highly successful IPv6 Summits educating over 25,000 engineers per year

The IETF has sole authority for IPv6 protocol standards development. The IPv6 Forum reserves the right to develop IPv6 Deployment Guides to foster the operational use of IPv6. The IPv6 Forum has among its ranks the original designers of IPv6 from the IETF, the best IPv6 technologists from industry, and the best researchers on planet. The IPv6 Forum is a worldwide recognized authority consulting with leaders in government and industry to support their new Internet promotion and adoption plans.The IPv6 Forum worldwide leadership recommends this document as a base of a brief strategic roadmap for each organization to understand the impact of the new Internet Protocol version 6 from a business perspective, supported by a simplified technical outlined is tilling the benefits and way forward on how and where to use IPv6. The IPv6 Forum publishes this document for information purposes, and is in no way binding for any business or other purposes.

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