1. V1. 0 IPv6 Global Summit Taiwan Taipei – 25-02-2003 IPv6 Rise in Europe Pascal Drabik DG Information Society – Research Networking European Commission “The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission”

2. V1. 0 Contents ● Introduction ● IPv6 in Framework Programme 5 ● Potential Benefits from IPv6 ● Conclusion

3. V1. 0 Contents ● Introduction ● IPv6 in Framework Programme 5 ● Potential Benefits from IPv6 ● Conclusion

4. V1. 0 Introduction ● RTD at European level provides a unique opportunity – To aggregate fragmented effort in the context of the European Research Area (ERA) – Build consensus and provide a “global approach” ● Framework Programme (e.g. FP5, FP6) ● Specific Programme – Strengthening the ERA ● Priority 2: Information Society Technologies (IST) ●... – Structuring the ERA ● Research Infrastructures ●...

5. V1. 0 Vision statement “Start creating the ambient intelligence landscape for seamless delivery of services and applications in Europe relying also upon test-beds and open source software, develop user- friendliness, and develop and converge the networking infrastructure in Europe to world-class” George Orwell: 1984 URL: ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/istag-99- final.pdf URL: ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/istagscenarios2010.pdf

6. V1. 0 Contents ● Introduction ● IPv6 in Framework Programme 5 ● Potential Benefits from IPv6 ● Conclusion

7. V1. 0 IPv6 projects financial overview ● Interest at European level since 1999 ● Global situation at the end of 2002: – Total budget:156 M€ – Total EU funding:85 M€ ● In particular, 2 experimentation platforms – Euro6IX and 6NET – Total budget:34 M€ - 22% of global situation – Total EU funding:18 M€ - 21% of global situation

8. V1. 0 IPv6 in FP5 ● Deployment – 6NET – Euro6IX ● Promotion – Eurov6 – IPv6TF-SC ● Clustering – 6Link ● Others – more specific

9. V1. 0 Projects Life since 01-01-2000 TORRENT NGN LAB GN1 WIRELESSCABIN MOBY DICK MIND INTERMON FUTURE HOME NGN-INITIATIVE MESCAL HARMONICS ANDROID @HOM MIND DRIVE EMOTION CRUMPET LONG IPV6TF-SC EUROV6 Euro6IX 6WINIT 6QM 6NET 6LINK SATIP6 OVERDRIVE GCAP 6POWER 6INIT 6HOP 010203040506070 FP6FP5 Total cost: nearly 156 M€ Total EU funding: nearly 85 M€

10. V1. 0 6NET – Overview ● One of the largest IST project – 18.4 M€ (10.3 M€ EU funding ) ● About 35 partners ● 3 years, from 01-01-2002 to 31-12-2004 ● About 1237 PM URL: http://www.6net.org

11. V1. 0 Network Overview URL: http://www.6net.org

12. V1. 0 Euro6IX – Overview ● One of the largest IST project – 15.5 M€ (7.8 M€ EU funding) ● 17 partners ● 3 years, from 01-01-2002 to 31-12-2004 ● About 1300 PM URL: http://www.euro6ix.org

13. V1. 0 Network Overview Torino Paris Zurich Berlin London Lisbon Madrid Murcia Bern Bretigny Lannio n Aveiro Issy Cae n Southampto n Viby IPv6 IX Nodes IPv6 Networks Link Sponsors TEF TEF/TI PT/TEF TI FT DT 34 Mbps IPv6 Native Links Peerings to Japan Peering to 6NET Peerings to US URL: http://www.euro6ix.org

14. V1. 0 Contents ● Introduction ● IPv6 in Framework Programme 5 ● Potential Benefits from IPv6 ● Conclusion

15. V1. 0 Potential Benefits from IPv6 (1/3) ● Human beings need to communicate – e.g. Day to day life – Evolution: Voice, Paper, Telephone, Internet,... – Success of the telephone, GSM, mobile telephone with video,... ● Critical factors to enable communications: – Network access – Bandwidth – Trust –...

16. V1. 0 Potential Benefits from IPv6 (2/3) ● IPv6, “always-on”, allows network access ● IPv6 contributes to address “trust” issues ● IPv6 does not address bandwidth issue

17. V1. 0 Potential Benefits from IPv6 (3/3) ● Potential to reduce the digital divide ● Potential to improve our social environment – e-government – Education – Healthcare – etc... ● Huge spectrum of innovative applications – e.g. “Internet fridge” – e.g. Virtual Reality, Navigation Systems – etc...

18. V1. 0 Contents ● Introduction ● IPv6 in Framework Programme 5 ● Potential Benefits from IPv6 ● Conclusion

19. V1. 0 Conclusion (1/2) ● IPv6: door to a new world of applications and services to be explored ● IPv6 is a corner stone for eEurope and ERA and European Union is supporting IPv6 ● Need to study the societal impact o the opportunities provided by IPv6

20. V1. 0 Conclusion (2/2) ● Need to explore the new world ● Need to prepare the deployment – Infrastructure – Management – etc... ● Need to think about the societal impact

21. V1. 0 Pascal Drabik European Commission DG Information Society F2 Rue de la Loi, 200 B-1049 Brussels Belgium E-mail: Pascal.Drabik@cec.eu.int URL: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/rn/home.html Phone: +32 2/295-48-24 Fax: +32 2/299-31-27 IPv6 Global Summit Taiwan