Alex Lightman is the founding CEO and Chairman of IPv6 Summit, Inc., the leading organizer of international IPv6 events and consultants to government and industry on IPv6 applications, training, and promotion. On Dec. 8-10, 2004, in Reston, Virginia he will chair the IPv6 Global Summit in cooperation with the Dept. of Defense. (http://www.usipv6.com), following on the highly successful IPv6 Summits in San Diego, June 2003; Arlington, VA, Dec. 2003, and Santa Monica, CA, June 2004, as well as the first IPv6 Day at the Consumer Electronics Show, Jan. 2003, all chaired by Lightman.
After hearing over 350 presentations on IPv6 from IPv6-related events in the US (seven of them), China, Spain, Japan, and Australia, and having had over 3,000 discussions about IPv6 with over a thousand well-informed people in the IPv6 community, I have come to the conclusion that all parties, particularly the press, have done a terrible job of informing people about the bigger picture of IPv6, over the last decade, and that we need to achieve a new consensus that doesn't include so much common wisdom that is simply mythical. There are many others in a position to do this exercise better than I can, and I invite them to make a better list than mine, which follows. more
The IPv6 Forum, the North American IPv6 Task Force, and Charmed Technology, Inc. today announced that the U.S. IPv6 Summit 2003 will be held December 8 - 11, 2003 in Arlington, VA, at the Doubletree Crystal City. The U.S. IPv6 Summit 2003 will focus on deployment, technical depth of key IPv6 features, and applications or services of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). more