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[ISOC] NEWS RELEASE: World IPv6 Launch Unites Industry Leaders to Redefine
the Global Internet

As leading websites, ISPs, and home router equipment manufacturers 
support IPv6 by default, it becomes the new normal for the Internet

[WASHINGTON, D.C. and GENEVA, Switzerland, --  5 June 2012] 

To ensure the Internet can continue to grow and connect billions
more people and devices around the world, thousands of
companies and millions of websites have now permanently
enabled the next generation of Internet Protocol (IPv6) for
their products and services. Participants in World IPv6
Launch include the four most visited websites in the world“  
Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Yahoo! as well as
home router manufacturers and Internet Service Providers
in more than 100 countries. By making IPv6 the new
normal, these companies are enabling millions of end
users to enjoy its benefits without having to do anything
themselves. 

World IPv6 Launch is organized by the
Internet Society as part of its mission to ensure that the
Internet remains open and accessible for everyone –
including the other five billion people not yet connected to the
Internet. "The support of IPv6 from these thousands of
organizations delivers a critical message to the world:
IPv6 is not just a 'nice to have'; it is ready for business
today and will very soon be a 'must have,'" said Leslie
Daigle, Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet
Society. "We believe that the commitment of these companies to
deploy IPv6 will ensure that they remain industry
leaders. Any company wishing to be effective in the new Internet
should do the same."

The World IPv6 Day in 2011 was a
24-hour test that focused on websites. This year, World
IPv6 Launch is a permanent commitment across the Internet
industry, including ISPs and home networking equipment
manufacturers around the world, laying the foundation to
accelerate the deployment of IPv6 across the global
Internet. Major websites are permanently enabling IPv6 starting 6
June 2012 at 0000 UTC on their main websites. ISPs will
permanently enable IPv6 across a significant portion of
their current and all new residential wireline
subscribers. Home networking equipment manufacturers will enable
IPv6 by default through their range of home router products,
and recent commitments to IPv6 by companies beyond
websites demonstrates a broader support of the new Internet Protocol.

This is imperative as the last blocks of the 4.3
billion IP addresses enabled by the current Internet
Protocol (IPv4) were assigned to the Regional Internet
Registries in February 2011. Already there is no remaining
IPv4 address space to be distributed in the Asia Pacific
region, and very soon the rest of the globe will follow.
IPv4 address space is expected to run out in Europe this
year, in the U.S. next year, and in Latin America and Africa
in 2014. IPv6 provides more than 340 trillion, trillion,
trillion addresses (an essentially unlimited number),
which will help connect the billions of people that are not
connected today, allow a wide range of devices to
connect directly with one another, and help ensure the Internet
can continue its current growth rate indefinitely. 

For more information about World IPv6 Launch and the
participating companies, as well as links to useful information
for users and how other companies can participate in the
continued deployment of IPv6, visit: http://www.worldipv6launch.org 

About the need for IPv6
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. 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.

About the Internet Society
The Internet Society is the trusted independent source for Internet
information and thought leadership from around the
world. With its principled vision and substantial
technological foundation, the Internet Society promotes open dialogue
on Internet policy, technology, and future development
among users, companies, governments, and other
organizations. Working with its members and Chapters around the
world, the Internet Society enables the continued evolution
and growth of the Internet for everyone. For more
information, visit www.internetsociety.org.


Supporting Quotes
from World IPv6 Launch Participants:

Akamai
IPv6 is
critical to the future of the Internet's underlying
architecture, and to supporting the billions of devices that
will connect to the Internet over the coming years,”
said Tom Leighton, chief scientist and co-founder, Akamai. 
“Having expanded our global IPv6 footprint to over 50
countries, Akamai enables Web sites to reach a growing
audience over IPv6 with the performance and reliability that
they have come to expect, and demand, from IPv4.  We
applaud the work of The Internet Society and so many of
today's businesses that have prepared for this important
transition“ ensuring the Internet remains a robust,
collaborative, and infinitely accessible platform.

AT&T
"With ubiquitous IP connectivity becoming a reality, IPv6
is critical to ensuring applications and services can
reach users anywhere they live and work. AT&T has been a
leader in the transition to IPv6 for many years, and we're
excited to participate in World IPv6 Launch by enabling
IPv6 by default for nearly one million of our broadband
subscribers and dual-stack enabling our enterprise,
consumer, and corporate websites and portals." Krish Prabhu,
President of AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer for AT&T

Bing for Microsoft 
World IPv6 Launch is a
significant milestone in achieving the next generation of the
Internet, and Bing is proud to have worked alongside so many
dedicated industry leaders to make this day possible,
said Derrick Connell, corporate vice president of Bing for
Microsoft.  All of us at Microsoft who have worked
together with our industry partners to make World IPv6
Launch a reality look forward to advancing our work and
support as IPv6 becomes adopted on a broader scale.

Cisco
Cisco SVP Engineering and General Manager Service
Provider Business, Pankaj Patel, says, "The Internet has fueled
remarkable economic growth and innovation that would have
never happened without a network.  Today, we face an
explosion of connected devices moving data and content,
especially video, and of applications and services coming
from the Cloud.  IPv6 enables the network -- the platform on
which innovation is built -- to scale and make more
growth more possible, today and into the future."

Comcast
We at Comcast take great pride in being an innovator and
technical leader. As a result of our team’s hard work,
enabling IPv6 in over a third of our network, I am happy
to report that by today we have exceeded our goal of 1%
of our customer base being enabled with IPv6 for World
IPv6 Launch! Thank you to the Internet Society and others
for organizing and participating in this important
event! - John Schanz, Chief Network Officer, Comcast

Facebook
"As more and more people and devices connect to the
web, supporting IPv6 has become crucial to the future
scalability of the Internet," said Jay Parikh, Vice President
of Infrastructure at Facebook. "It's awesome to see so
many people and companies working together across the world
to make progress on this transition."

Google
"IPv6 is
key to preserving the health and openness of the Internet
for decades to come," said Stephen Stuart, Distinguished
Engineer at Google. "We're proud to be one of the founding
participants in World IPv6 Launch, and we look forward
to the day when IPv6 is available to Internet users
everywhere."

Internode
At Internode we are already using
IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) to deliver Internet
access to more than two per cent of our customers. During the
past five years, Internode has acquired a great deal of
understanding from deploying IPv6 on our national and
international broadband networks, thereby providing a
risk-free pathway for our customers when they use IPv6 and it
is now ready for prime time,” said Internode founder and
managing director Simon Hackett. “The most important
lesson for Internode is that done right, customers will
not even notice the change to IPv6. Internode commends the
World IPv6 Launch as the time that website publishers,
other Internet Service Providers and all companies
manufacturing equipment for Internet access should also enable
IPv6 access by default.

Yahoo!
Yahoo! is proud to be
part of this historic effort to transition to the next
generation Internet Protocol.  Together, we are helping
ensure the long-term health and growth of the Internet,
which has become a critical part of people’s lives around
the globe. - Jason Fesler, Distinguished Architect and
IPv6 Evangelist, Yahoo!


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Cheers,
Stphen