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The IPv6 Forum Launches the IPv6 Education Certification Logo Program
TOKYO and BEIJING and PENANG, MALAYISIA and DURHAM, NH and LUXEMBOURG, Sep 06, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
The IPv6 Forum Ready Logo Program Committee releases a new program:
the IPv6 Education Certification Logo Program. This program defines
and certifies courses, engineers and trainers with Silver & Gold Logo
levels and requires IPv6 implementation on the web site of the
education program.
A recent survey on IPv6 training and studies at universities and
vendors has demonstrated that IPv6 training and courses are way too
embryonic to have any critical impact. It is estimated that some 20
million engineers are working on the current Internet worldwide at
ISPs, corporate and all other public and private organizations and
they will need quality training on IPv6. This is a gigantic task
since it's the first upgrade of the Internet and most probably the
last one for decades to come. The web site of the study can be seen
here: http://www.training4ipv6.eu/
The IPv6 Forum Education Logo Program's prime objective is to
encourage and accelerate the education on IPv6 and promote thereby
swifter adoption of IPv6 in the education curriculum and programs of
the universities, research institutes, vendors and training
specialists. This program is designed to increase practical
engineering expertise and hands-on knowledge to tackle this large
undertaking ahead of us extending thereby user confidence by
demonstrating that IPv6 will be deployed by qualified engineers.
"This program has been designed to prepare a wide range of players
for the implementation and use of IPv6. It is intended as an aid to
capacity building and a way to promote IPv6 awareness," states Dr.
Vint Cerf, Honorary Chair, IPv6 Forum.
"The IPv6 Forum wishes to recognize the IPv6 training experts for
their pioneering work to be used as a precursor model encouraging the
education sector in the universities and vendor training programs to
adopt their quality training courses to win time and train qualified
engineers to deploy IPv6 with expertise and quality," states Latif
Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum, Senior Researcher at University of
Luxembourg, Security and Trust (SnT) Center. Emeritus Trustee,
Internet Society (ISOC).
"The IPv6 Curriculum study has abundantly demonstrated that hands-on
IPv6 skills and field experience are dearly missing. Achieving parity
between IPv4 and IPv6 deployment, quality expertise is the one pillar
to focus on. This program is very welcome as it takes on this task
globally," states Jacques Babot, IPv6 Team leader, European
Commission - DG INFSO, Unit F4 New infrastructure paradigms and
experimental facilities FIRE (Future Internet Research and
Experiments).
"The industry needs highly skilled IPv6 engineers and professionals
to ensure IPv6 is deployed universally. It is very important to be
able to identify experts in IPv6. This IPv6 Forum Education Logo
Program will provide the industry with a trusted, industry neutral
program for IPv6 certified professional, trainer and training
programs. The IPv6 Forum Education Logo program is simply in the
continuity of the IPv6 ready Logo program and IPv6 Enabled program
and will serve the community well," states Yanick Pouffary, NAv6TF
Technology Director, IPv6 Forum Fellow and IPv6 Forum (Ready &
Enabled) Logo Programs Chairperson.
"Highly skilled engineers and operators are the key component to
deploy the professional and business IPv6 system. It must be same
quality among all the countries on the globe, since the Internet is
global. The role of this program shall be strategic and the same as
IPv6 Ready logo Program and IPv6 Enabled Program, I recognize,"
states Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Esaki, Executive Director of Japan IPv6
Council, Chair of IPv6 Ready Logo program, Emeritus Trustee, ISOC.
"As the IPv6 transition continues, keeping the engineering pipeline
primed and ready is of critical importance. Ensuring that these
systems will work and work well together will require IT specialists
and network engineers with in-depth, hands-on experience," states
Erica Johnson, IPv6 Ready Logo Regional Officer, IPv6 Forum Fellow,
USA.
"We believe IPv6 Training will be quite necessary for the whole
Internet industry and its users. There is huge demand in China, where
IPv6 Internet is now considered as a national strategy," states Liu
Dong, Chair China IPv6 Council.
"To build up the dependable IPv6 environment, we need highly skilled
engineers as well as high quality products throughout the world. This
program will improve the IPv6 educational programs and the IPv6
engineers in the world. I believe this is one of the essential
activities, which supports the stable Internet," states Hiroshi
Miyata, IPv6 Ready Logo Regional Officer, IPv6 Forum Fellow, Japan.
"Future Internet will be managed by current students and engineers in
industry. It is highly required to provide IPv6 education to make
them improve their knowledge and skill in IPv6 technology. In this
way, this IPv6 Forum Education Logo Program will contribute in
ensuring high quality and interoperable IPv6 products managed by
people that naturally work, think and speak IPv6," states Viho Cesar,
IPv6 Ready Logo Regional Officer, IPv6 Forum Fellow, France.
"Global certification and recognition is an important requirement in
the education field. By ensuring the course (and thus, the student)
is IPv6 Forum Certified, we are ensuring the quality of the future
IPv6 Engineers. And that such Engineers will now have globally
recognized certification," states Professor Dr Sureswaran Ramadass
Director of NAV6 Center of Excellence, Univ Sains Malaysia, Chair
IPv6 Education Certification Program.
"IPv4 address space is now down to 5% and the world must move to IPv6
now more than ever. One of the most important elements to ensure a
successful deployment of IPv6 is Capacity building. IPv6 Forum's
Education Program provides a holistic training program in addressing
the scarcity of IPv6-skilled engineers worldwide," Selvakumar
Manickam of NAV6 Center of Excellence, Univ Sains Malaysia, IPv6
Education Certification Program.
"Since the skills required for a smooth deployment of IPv6 are so
critical for success, I plan to evolve my freely-distributed book
('The Second Internet') to track the emerging official IPv6-Forum
training curriculum. This should help both trainers and engineers to
master the new concepts and become certified in IPv6 operation in a
timely and cost-effective manner," states Lawrence Hughes, IPv6 Ready
Logo Regional Officer, Philippines.
"This program provides an opportunity for networking professionals to
understand the technical intricacies and acquire hands-on experience
in order to integrate IPv6 in their networks," Salman Asadullah, CCIE
No. 2240, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems, IPv6 Forum Fellow,
co-Chair IPv6 Education Certification Program, USA.
"The IPv6 Curriculum study, funded by the European Commission, has
identified some critical roadblocks endangering a smooth transition
to IPv6. The main ones are: severe lack of a large amount of skilled
workforce, lack of well documented courses, lack of IPv6-trained
professors and trainers, lack of IPv6-ready engineers coming soon out
of universities. Our study will contribute to make some very relevant
recommendations in this regard," states Franck le Gall, Coordinator
of the IPv6 Curriculum Study at Inno, France.
http://www.training4ipv6.eu/
To obtain the IPv6 Education Certification Logo, please visit the
following web site:
http://www.ipv6forum.com/ipv6_enabled/ipv6_education.php
About the IPv6 Forum
The IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of
leading vendors, Internet service vendors, National research &
Education Networks (NRENs) and international ISPs, with a clear
mission to promote IPv6 by improving market and user awareness,
creating a quality and secure Next Generation Internet and allowing
world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology. The key
focus of the IPv6 Forum today is to provide technical guidance for
the deployment of interoperability thru its IPv6 Ready & Enabled Logo
Programs: www.ipv6ready.org & http://www.ipv6forum.com/ipv6_enabled/
http://www.ipv6forum.com
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For further information, please contact:
Latif Ladid
President
IPv6 FORUM
Tel: + 352 - 30 71 35
Email Contact
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