May, 2001 : Web Conference Sees Europe As Setting Internet Standard
📅 - On Wednesday, the organizer of a canadian conference on Web technology said that North America should be following Europe's example when it comes to considering financial incentives to accelerate the adoption of new standards to upgrade the Internet.
A European task force designed to study the means to a smooth transition to newer high-capacity Internet standards by 2005 will review funding measures including tax breaks and training, as well as test networks and market studies.
Latif Ladid, president of the industry-led Ipv6 Forum task force meeting in Ottawa this week, says the task force hopes to see the same thing happening in larger countries like Canada and the US. Laidid thinks Europe could be a good model for other countries to look to in the interest of creating initiatives to support deployment.
Advocates of Internet Protocol version 6 warn that the world is expected to run out of addresses in 2002 using the current Ipv4 standard, which could result in massive traffic jams on the Web. They say a global push is important to advancing the technology, which would support an almost endless supply of Web addresses.
And the availability of new addresses is needed for the success of third-generation networks that are under development in Europe and Asia.
The European task force will submit its report in December, and will possibly suggest that financing be split between the public and private sectors. According to Ladid, the rest of the world should consider similar measures. Countries have to pay attention to the issue, he says. The deploying of IPv6 is an enormous, unavoidable task that can not be ignored.
But analysts say there is little incentive among North American telecommunications companies and corporations to switch to the new technology, mostly because customers are not demanding the upgrade. While North America controls 74 percent of the world's Web addresses, it is years away from adopting the third-generation networks that require ?always-on? access to the web.
Analysts say that the US and Canadian governments don?t tend to get involved in technology policy on a level that detailed. They say the governments are more likely to leave the decisions on standards to the private sector.
A European task force designed to study the means to a smooth transition to newer high-capacity Internet standards by 2005 will review funding measures including tax breaks and training, as well as test networks and market studies.
Latif Ladid, president of the industry-led Ipv6 Forum task force meeting in Ottawa this week, says the task force hopes to see the same thing happening in larger countries like Canada and the US. Laidid thinks Europe could be a good model for other countries to look to in the interest of creating initiatives to support deployment.
Advocates of Internet Protocol version 6 warn that the world is expected to run out of addresses in 2002 using the current Ipv4 standard, which could result in massive traffic jams on the Web. They say a global push is important to advancing the technology, which would support an almost endless supply of Web addresses.
And the availability of new addresses is needed for the success of third-generation networks that are under development in Europe and Asia.
The European task force will submit its report in December, and will possibly suggest that financing be split between the public and private sectors. According to Ladid, the rest of the world should consider similar measures. Countries have to pay attention to the issue, he says. The deploying of IPv6 is an enormous, unavoidable task that can not be ignored.
But analysts say there is little incentive among North American telecommunications companies and corporations to switch to the new technology, mostly because customers are not demanding the upgrade. While North America controls 74 percent of the world's Web addresses, it is years away from adopting the third-generation networks that require ?always-on? access to the web.
Analysts say that the US and Canadian governments don?t tend to get involved in technology policy on a level that detailed. They say the governments are more likely to leave the decisions on standards to the private sector.
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