Charlie Lewis
speaks at IEC 21st Century World Forum
27th March 2006
IEC 21st Century Communications World Forum – London 27-30 March 2006
The IPv6 UK Task Force has been invited to speak at this
prestigious event organised by the International Engineering Consortium.
Charlie Lewis of IP426.COM serves on
the steering committee of the UK IPv6 Task Force, and will be presenting a talk
on the businesses issues surrounding IPv6.
Conference URL: http://www.iec.org/events/2006/21/index.html
Charlie Lewis of IP426.COM speaks at Barcelona Summit
IPv6 Global Summit Barcelona June 6-10 2005
Charlie Lewis of IP426.COM spoke on the subject of “How Can Business
Get on Board?” at the Global IPv6 Summit in Barcelona on 7th June 2005. IPv6
often seems to be restricted to the domain of technologists and academics.
Charlie challenged this blinkered approach. He described the current
perception of IPv6 adoption in the business market, and issued a “call to
arms”, inviting businesses to define and benefit from the opportunities offered
by IPv6.
Conference agenda URL: http://www.ipv6-es.com/05/in/i-agenda.php
Conference document URL: http://www.ipv6-es.com/05/in/i-documentos.php
UK
IPv6 Deployment Conference (September 2004)
Ian Cunningham of
IP426.COM delivered a talk on the subject of “Opening the IPv6 Awareness Door”
at the UK IPv6 Deployment Conference in which he stressed the need for
academics and researchers to stop talking to each other and start talking to
the business community. http://www.uk.ipv6tf.org/events/manchester.html#slides
Charlie Lewis joins UK
IPv6 Task Force Steering Committee (May 2004)
Charlie Lewis of IP426.COM has been invited to join the UK’s IPv6 Task
Forces steering committee. Charlie’s experience in training and marketing &
promoting of skills transfer as well as his long term enthusiasm for IPv6 made
him a good fit for the team. You can find out more about the task force, its
steering committee and its activities at http://www.uk.ipv6tf.org/contact.html
TechEd (July 2003)
IP426.COM associate, Rafal Luckawiecki delivered an IPv6 overview at the Microsoft's
European TechEd in Barcelona. The presentation was very well
attended and highly evaluated by the over 600 attendees.
San Diego Summit (June 2003)
The US IPv6 task force held its conference in San Diego. IP426 team
members attended. http://www.usipv6.com
The big "news" was that the US Department of Defense
had announced its immediate adoption of IPv6. At the conference, John Osterholz, Chief Information Officer for the DOD, made a
keynote speech http://www.usipv6.com/ppt/ipv6keynotesummit.pdf
which clearly set out the DOD's reasons for urgently
moving to IPv6. In particular, he made a strong indication that those who had
looked at the target completion date of 2008 and assumed this meant IPv6 was
still very much in the future had missed the point. Vendors were clearly told
that IPv6 started today - from October the DOD does not plan to purchase any IT
services that do not support IPv6. The military had chosen IPv6 because of the
flexibility, easy configuration, mobility and point to point security for which
it was designed (Interestingly, the US defense
department does not have the same address exhaustion issues that plague most of
the rest of the world).
Said Ian Cunningham, IP426.COM CEO,
"I was very struck by the parallels between the needs of the DOD and the
businesses I work with every day. Mr Osterholz
referred to the soldiers on the ground as his customers. They require flexible
easily adjusted networking which scales well and provides end to end security.
The only real difference was that for most of my customers, the nonsense that
is NATs and private addressing results only in wasted
time, money, user frustration and loss of opportunity. Talking to Mr Osterholz all of these were issues for his team as well but
he said that his ultimate concern was saving lives - if you are on the ground
and need to connect you don't want to put in a helpdesk call to get someone to
find out which NAT is blocking your access."
Microsoft was also at the conference in force. They were
demonstrating one of their test bed products, 3 degrees http://www.3degrees.com.
It is a bit of fun aimed at the youth users but it provides a good illustration
of the use of IPv6 with Teredo (IPv4 NAT bridging) technology and, more
importantly, Microsoft's commitment to IPv6.
There were many interesting presentations but one that
really underlined the future for IPv6 was given by Margaret Wasserman of Wind River who make a wide range
of embedded operating systems ("any computer-based system that isn't a
computer"). http://www.usipv6.com/ppt/Embedding-IPv6-Jun03.ppt
She underlined just how much of a problem it is to get IPv4 into embedded
devices which often have no configuration interface and are going to be used by
consumers. Simple tasks like allocating an IP address and making sure that
address can access other systems both local and remote don't seem at all simple
without a GUI and a technically competent user. Wind River
and other manufacturers have hundreds of applications that will make connected
devices ubiquitous as soon as IPv6 provides them with freely usable addresses
and auto-configuration. In the very near future, just about every electronic
device sold will have IPv6 in it. Sony announced as early as 2001 "In
anticipation of IPv6, Sony has recently decided to build an IP address into
every new product -- both professional and consumer." http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/800
Consistence in Excellence (June 2003)
Just a note to say that IP426.COM's Ian
Cunningham, was awarded the "Consistence in
Excellence" award by Microsoft's internal Global Learning Services for
achieving the highest average instructor rating over the year (delivering
Advanced TCP/IP and Advanced Directory Services Troubleshooting courses to
Microsoft engineers around the world). He also picked up a Highest Rating award
for his virtual training courses which he delivers around the world without
leaving his desk. Ian has delivered internal training courses for Microsoft for
over 15 years.
Madrid IPv6 Summit (May 2003)
Three members of the IP426.COM joined 300 hundred delegates
at the IPv6 summit. http://www.ipv6-es.com/03/in/i-intro.php
It was a great opportunity to meet with colleagues from around the world and
discuss the real implementation of IPv6. IP426.COM's Sales Director, Charlie
Lewis (charliel@ip426.com) said, "The most
remarkable thing about the conference was the large number of real commercial
projects already running in Asia. There were
lots of commercial applications that relied entirely on the large numbers of
self-configuring, mobile IP addresses with point to point connectivity that
only IPv6 can provide. Far from using IPv6 to simply solve Asia's
address shortage problems, the guys there were already looking forward to a
whole raft of new technologies they can now adopt.
