Dear IPv6 folks,

The Global IPv6 Summit in Korea 2006 sponsored by MIC (The Ministry of Information and Communication), IPv6 Forum Korea and IPv6 Forum International will be held on June 14~15 at the Lotte Hotel World, Jamsil in Seoul, Korea.

The Internet already has grown and changed into an essential factor of our life. These changes also make us to change our way of thinking about communication into ubiquitous way. Now IPv6 is being considered as the core protocol in implementing the ubiquitous network. Korea is driving the IT 839 Strategy, which is a master plan for the IT industry, in an effort to gain more growth momentum from the IT sector in Korea. IPv6 will play a key role in realizing Ubiquitous Network, new IT services and growth enginesin Korea. (Eight New Services: WiBro, DMB, Telematics, W-CDMA, etc; three Infrastructures: BcN, USN, Soft Infraware and nine IT New Growth Engines: NG Mobile Comm., Digital TV, and so on.)

The Global IPv6 Summit in Korea 2006 will consist of keynote speeches, technical and business sessions. At this summit, many of world-wide experts including the Chairman of IPv6 Forum International, telecommunication operators, IPv6 equipment vendors, IPv6 application developers will report on their current status and the IPv6 based Convergence, Deployment and Business Cases. During the conference, there will be exhibitions showing the recent achievements of equipments, services and applications in the IPv6 industry.Especially, this summit will focus on the emerging issues such as IPv6 over IEEE 802.16/WiBro, IPv6 home networking and USN technologies. Furthermore, there will be several presentations related to IPv6 based business model from the view point of ISPs, IPv6 equipment vendors and service provides.  

As the president of IPv6 Forum Korea, I would like to welcome all of you to come to this 6th Global IPv6 Summit Event in Korea. Please come and join us in Seoul.