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ETSI Teams with IPv6 for Next Generation Internet (to build wired/lees networks to consumer and industrial devices like mobile phones, fridges and toasters. This is no fairytail anymore, but the most accurate bussiness-issue.)
(IP=internet protocol, which carries the packet adress. If every not only cellphone, but toaster and car-radio is web-connected you need more adresses, that's the point here)
By Vanessa Clark (http://www.totaltele.com) 25 November 1999
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the IPv6 Forum yesterday joined forces to promote the next generation of Internet Protocol numbering, known as IPv6.
The move was prompted by "the strong desire of wireless operators to get IP into 3G," said Bridget Cosgrove, deputy director general at ETSI.
IPv6 is a new Internet numbering protocol being developed by the Internet Engineering Taskforce to provide almost unlimited IP numbers once the existing protocol, IPv4, runs out.
This will allow networking to extend to consumer and industrial devices like mobile phones, fridges and toasters.
"We will need around 100 IP numbers each in 20 years time," said Latif Ladid, president of IPv6 Forum.
As well as addressing space issues, IPv6 will add security and quality of service to the IP world, he said.
Mobile devices become more suited to accessing the Internet with increased wireless bandwidth in the offing and the emergence of wireless application protocol devices (WAP). Traditionally ETSI members with IP experience come from the fixed world, said Cosgrove. Now wireless operators are seeing the need to work more closely with Internet standards bodies.
The IPv6 Forum has also partnered the UMTS Forum and GSM Association, and is in discussion with the 3GPP (led by ETSI), the WAP Forum and the Bluetooth consortium.
The two organizations have teamed to promote IPv6 to the telecoms industry by hosting a series of conferences starting this year. They also plan so-called interoperability "bake-offs" to test how different IPv6 products work together.
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