KUALA LUMPUR: The Government is expected to fully migrate its computing systems by next year from IPv4 to the new IPv6 version of the Internet protocol.
It is on track with the migration that is being shepherded now by the National IPv6 Council, which comes under the purview of the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture.
Another goal of the council is to provide the vision, mission and strategic plan for IPv6 implementation in the rest of the country.
To ensure a smooth transition, the public and private sectors must have adequate numbers of trained personnel, according to the Universiti Sains Malaysia's (USM) National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6).
Prof Dr Sureswaran Ramadass, the director of NAv6, said some 3,000 engineers from around the world have been trained in Malaysia on IPv6. Of this number, 1,000 are Malaysians.
"Malaysia is a pioneer in the IPv6 movement, and the university through NAv6 is playing a key role in the training of IPv6 network engineers worldwide," he said.
The university was appointed by the Government in 2005 to spearhead R&D and human resource training for its IPv6 initiative.
USM's training module has been adopted by international bodies, including the IPv6 Global Forum.
Every piece of equipment connected to the Internet requires an IP address and the number of available addresses under IPv4 has run out, or is very close to running out. IPv6 will solve this problem.
June 8 is World IPv6 Day, and companies in various parts of the world will be test driving their systems and services on IPv6.
"In IPv4, there is a maximum of 4.2 billion IP addresses," Dr Sureswaran said. "With IPv6, there will easily be enough IP addresses for every man, woman and child in the world."
Gathering
Also, the IPv6 2011 regional conference will be held at the Berjaya Times Square Hotel here, from July 19 to July 21.
The conference, themed The Next Generation Internet, includes workshops and is geared towards driving businesses and government agencies to migrate to IPv6.
It will be attended by top-level management personnel and policy-makers.
There will be a keynote by Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim.
President of the IPv6 Forum, Latif Ladid, will also be there to speaking about the big shift from "Telecom Internet" to the two-way Internet based on IPv6.
Other highlights are NAv6 workshops on IPv6 transition and IPv6 security.
sumber : The Star
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