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This is simply awesome spotlight with key questions to Latif Ladid and responses, we should captures these as our mantra answers to these questions. Latif will be participating in the Executive Biz March 30th New Internet see URL below click on New Internet. Also when you go there you will also see other NAv6TF members Brett Thorson, Chris Gunderson, and Cynthia Martin. Great job Latif and thanks to Brett, Chris, and Cynthia for participation.

Thank You to these volunteers,

/jim
CTO IPv6 Forum www.nav6tf.org
Chair NAv6TF www.nav6tf.org

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Executive Spotlight with Latif Ladid

Latif Ladid
President
IPv6 Forum <http://www.ipv6forum.com/>

In the 03/09/2006 edition of ExecutiveBiz we had a chance to catch up with Latif Ladid, President of IPv6 Forum.

As President of the IPv6 Forum, Latif Ladid is globally considered one of the foremost authorities on IPv6. In this exclusive interview, Latif discusses the impacts IPv6 will have on the IT Industry, what impact China's early adoption will have on the United States, and more. Latif has a uniquely global perspective on the internet in general and will bring to light the potential for this area's leadership in IPv6 adoption and the subsequent economic gains at an ExecutiveBiz event "The New, New Internet"
<https://www.execbizevents.com/ExecutiveBiz/events/event.php?event_id=17
> on March 30, 2006.

ExecutiveBiz: On a relative order of magnitude, how important is IPv6 compared to Y2K?

Latif Ladid: Y2K was a flag-day process while IPv6 will be largely driven by technology refresh and technology/business case. The perception that IPv6 will replace IPv4 is incorrect since IPv6 was designed to cater for many deployment scenarios, starting with extension of the packet technology and therefore supporting IPv4 with transition models to keep IPv4 working even for ever and then to cater for new uses and new models that require a combination of features that were not tightly designed or scalable in IPv4 like IP mobility, end to end connectivity, end to end services, ad hoc services; to the extreme scenario where IP becomes a commodity service enabling lowest cost deployment of large scale sensor networks, RFID, IP in the car, to any imaginable scenario where networking adds value to commodity. This is called progress while Y2K was just a "monumental" bug to fix.

ExecutiveBiz: If my business does not become IPv6 compliant, what are the expected repercussions?

Latif Ladid: IPv6 readiness is the lowest cost option as it's part of the technology refresh and would make the network future-proof, though a careful review of the firewall security is called for. There's an educational process involved. Again, the scenarios are quite wide and there's no size that fits all. The geopolitical dimension is crucial for a country like the US to stay or remain the most advance IT nation in the world. The simplest scenario is that International companies that deal with Asia would be asked to support the new protocol. So, you can deduct the impact of rest of the scenarios from here.

ExecutiveBiz: What will IPv6 do for me as an end-user?

Latif Ladid: IPv4 was designed unintentionally to share the complexity with the end-user while IPv6 will try to take away that complexity from the end-user. This is the goal of the design and the deployment of IPv6 will have to make this vision happen and it will happen. IPv6 should not be even a concern to the end-user as it's part of the plumbing and should be transparent to the end-user and make his new internet experience an easier one.

ExecutiveBiz: What are the economic and security related impacts of China being ahead of the US in their adoption of IPv6?

Latif Ladid: The US has missed recently a few "deployment" leadership milestones, ironically not listening to its best engineers who have helped the world to move forward: The cell phone leadership went to Europe and broadband went to Asia. IPv6 is the next victim. Thanks to the tireless work of the North American IPv6 task Force led by Jim Bound, CTO IPv6 Forum, the DOD adoption of IPv6 has restored the leadership of the US as it validated IPv6 deployment to the rest of the world. Again, the message was rather heard by Asia and to a certain extend by Europe and has confirmed the beginning of the race to leadership while the US industry remained deaf to that message, with the exception of international vendors. But I am confident the US industry can pick up the ball fast and recover the lost space if they are well consulted and this is where ExecutiveBiz could lend a hand in distilling key messages and multiply awareness at senior level at Corporate America and political level. But the task remains a huge undertaking.

ExecutiveBiz: What is the overall goal of the IPv6 Forum in the US and in Europe?

Latif Ladid: The IPv6 Forum has a worldwide mission and a moral responsibility and would encourage any country or continent with the same objectives and goals. To make this happen, The IPv6 Forum has established 35 IPv6 Forum chapters around the world with 5 new chapters under formation in Africa and Asia. The IPv6 Forum trains over 25000 engineers worldwide per year. The prime goal is to accelerate massive deployment of IPv6 to become the dominant protocol to benefit from its many features designed to move the Internet from an elitarian space with just 15% penetration worldwide and make the 6 B people potentially use the Internet enabling a digital lift so that every kid on planet will be a resident on the Internet and not just a simple sporadic tourist . Added to this, the new end-user experience based on IPv6 will be dramatically enhanced.

ExecutiveBiz: Why do you think Western countries have been so slow to adopt IPv6?

Latif Ladid: Without mentioning 9/11, the US was hit by the Internet bubble (Y2K too!) and Europe by the 3G spectrum disaster that depleted industries from investment potential and had to go thru a period of restructuring back to core business which is a repellent process to new innovation. So, the 21st century did not have a good start at all but the worldwide economy survived these massive hacks which is very promising for the future. It would help to have entrepreneurs that built the US economy to come back to leadership as beancounters are running the US industry today and innovation is a very fragile process that can only flourish in the hands of passionate people about new technologies, extending patience and care until the innovation becomes a profit source. Today's gratification in instant money making is anti-progress.

ExecutiveBiz: How does and will IPv6 most impact the IT industry, and IT professionals?

Latif Ladid: The Department of Commerce released the first independent study of the fast emerging IPv6 market space, with focus on the ROI when transitioning to IPv6. The reports concludes that IPv6 will create a services market of 25 Billion dollars over the next quarter century generating 10 Billion dollars of cost savings EVERY YEAR. Every dollar invested, returns 10 dollars in cost savings. The press however went ranting with sensational headlines that the move to v6 will cost 25 M$ over the next 25 years. Either people cannot do the math or some people do not want to take strong stances. In both cases, an excellent report got wasted missing a major opportunity to show leadership.

Again, the IT industry is called for action. IT professionals are always seduced in the end by simplicity when they have pushed complexity to its extreme and the last code line won't make it. The return to end to end will blow fresh oxygen into design of new superior networks and end to end applications.

For more information about Latif Ladid and IPv6 Forum, visit the IPv6 Forum web site at www.ipv6forum.com <http://www.ipv6forum.com/> .

Interview with Latif Ladid conducted by JD Kathuria.

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