IPv6 Forum Will Establish Permanent Secretariat in China to Promote the Deployment of Next-Generation of Internet (NGI)

At the IPv6 Summit held in Hangzhou from May 21st to 22^nd. IPv6 Forum, the most influential and wide-ranging IPv6 industry organization, signed a MOU with BII-CFIEC. The IPv6 Forum will establish a permanent secretariat in China, form a community in many aspects such as industrial upgrading and technical standards, and work together to globalize IPv6 public access, technological innovation, and personnel training to promote the deployment of the NGI.

Figure: IPv6 Forum signed MOU with BII-CFIEC

Latif Ladid, President of IPv6 Forum and Liu Dong, Director of BII-CFIEC attended the signing ceremony. Academician of the CAE Dai Hao, Academician of the CAE Yu Quan, Academician of the CAE Ding Wenhua, Academician of the CAS Yin Hao, National Information and Technology Commission Vice Chairman Zhou Hongren, member of standing committee of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda Qi Xiaohu, member of the Standing Committee of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and deputy mayor Liu Desheng, director of the ZHEJIANG lab Zhu Shiqiang, and deputy director of the Binjiang District Zheng Di, jointly witnessed the occasion.

The IPv6 Forum was launched in Europe in 1999. The vision of the forum is to promote IPv6 from technology, market, deployment, and other aspects, increase the awareness of IPv6 in the entire industry and establish a new type of security-enhanced NGI so that people around the world can have the same access to knowledge and technology. The establishment of a permanent secretariat in China will establish a long-term international exchange and cooperation platform for Chinese enterprises to accelerate the development of global integration. In the future, both the China Future Internet Engineering Center and the Global IPv6 Forum will also cooperate in depth through the formulation of industry standards and the promotion of testing and certification technologies to accelerate the global deployment of the NGI.

After decades of development, China has the largest number of Internet users in the world and has a large number of outstanding Internet application innovations that have gained global recognition and attention. At present, the Internet industry has moved from extensive development to global competition and cooperation based on core technology R&D and basic research.

With the issuance of the“Action Plan on Promoting the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-based Network into Large-scale Use” issued by the Central Government Office and General Office of the CPC Central Committee and General Office of the State Council the at the end of 2017, China will build the world's largest IPv6 commercial application network in the future and support the all-round development of the society and economy. China will surely become one of the major leading forces in the global NGI.

Speaking of this signing, Liu Dong, director of the BII-CFIEC, said, “The China’s Internet has been booming in recent years, and China has played an increasingly important role in the global Internet. With the advent of era of the NGI and the Internet of Everything, China is bound to enter a new period of unimaginable high-speed development and seize this golden historical opportunity to move from large country with Internet access to an Internet power.

Global IPv6 Summit 2018 Convened ---Technology Iteration Brought New Opportunities for Digital Economy Development

HANGZHOU, May 21-22, 2018 -- "Global IPv6 Summit 2018" (IPv6.conference.cn) was held in Hangzhou, China. This summit was hosted by the Global IPv6 Forum, BII-CFIEC and ZHEJIANG Lab, co-hosted by the CHINA INFO 100, WASU Group and Binjiang District Government.

At present, the development of the global NGI is facing a major turning point. The large-scale deployment of the future Internet based on IPv6 will bring a rare historical opportunity for the innovation of Internet system and support the rapid development of cutting-edge technologies and industries, such as mobile Internet, Internet of Things, industrial Internet and 5G. Therefore, it will help the global digital economy flourish.

In this context, “Global IPv6 Summit 2018” focuses on the subjects of industrial development, standard evolution, applications, cutting-edge technologies, and digital integration and innovation. During the two-day summit, over 70 top industry experts from around the world have shared their keen insights through keynote speeches, panel discussion and workshops. The next-generation Internet will be advanced through continuous exchanges and cooperation.

During the summit, a total of 863 spectators have registered for attending, and hundreds of thousands of people know about the summit through media coverage. Three professional medias (C114, IT168 and the Communications World) have conducted simultaneous broadcasting, besides, more than 60 medias have devoted significant coverage to the summit, such as China Central Television (CCTV), Xinhua News Agency, Zhejiang Satellite TV, Zhejiang Daily, People’s Daily Online, Sina, Netease, Tencent, Sohu.com, cctime.com, CNR (China National Radio), which has drawn wide attention inside and outside the industry. It can be said that this summit has achieved great success in terms of the number of guests and spectators, presentation and industry response.

In picture: Global IPv6 Summit site

NGI Has Laid a Solid Foundation for the Development of China's Digital Economy

At the summit, academician of CAE Dai Hao, academician of CAE Yu Quan, academician of CAE Ding Wenhua, Academician of CAS Yin Hao and other experts conducted round-table discussions on the topic of "NGI Contributes to China's Digital Economy."

In picture: Academician Forum of Global IPv6 Summit

Academician Dai Hao emphasized that during the development of the NGI, China should highlight the development of network security and master core technologies. Academician Ding Wenhua said that the NGI would bring greater social and economic effects and it would promote the internationalization of Chinese enterprises. All industries and industries should actively and rapidly promote IPv6 deployment at the nodes of the network technology iteration. Academician Yu Quan believed that in the era of interconnection of all things, a clear identification system and massive data would inevitably bring about revolutionary changes to everyone's production and life. Academician Yin Hao analyzed the development trend of the network from the network and application level and stated that the development of the NGI was not only about technology iteration, but far-reaching social and economic effects. It would lay a solid foundation for the development of China’s digital economy. .

NGI Brings New Opportunities for the Development in Asia-Pacific Region

At the Global IPv6 Summit, near 10 regional Internet IPv6 NGI leaders from APNIC, China, Japan, India, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Central Asia Education and Research Network also gathered in Hangzhou to discuss the industrial development and opportunities of IPv6 in Asia-Pacific Region and share practical experience in innovation and development.

In picture: Roundtable Forum of "NGI development opportunities and challenges in Asia Pacific"

Liu Dong, director of the BII-CFIEC, said that we were more than users of the Internet, but contributors, participants, and leaders of the Internet. Other representatives of the conference also expressed that the promotion of the scale deployment of IPv6 NGI would inevitably bring rare historical opportunities and challenges to the Internet architecture and innovation. In terms of business applications, security management and domain name resolution, there were great opportunities for innovation and development in the Asia-Pacific region. Utilizing the NGI to enhance the transformation of traditional industries would comprehensively increase industrial efficiency, promote industrial innovation and drive the overall development of society. The NGI can accelerate the informatization in the Asia-Pacific region and realize leap-forward development in data, knowledge, technology, education and technology.

IPv6 is Just the Starting Point. NGI is the Platform for the Integration and Development of new Technologies.

Latif Ladid, chairman of the IPv6 Forum, said at the meeting that the TCP/IP protocol was the cornerstone of the development of the Internet. IPv6 fundamentally solved the problem of insufficient network addresses and was the basic protocol of the NGI. However, IPv6 is just the starting point. The NGI is an open, inclusive, and innovative technology system and a platform for the development of new technologies. Zhou Hongren, executive deputy director of Advisory Committee for State Informatization, firmly believed that the development of global information technology would emerge a new major turning point and formed a new stage of development of global information technology.

At this summit, many technical experts from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, China UnionPay shared their opinion on the NGI key infrastructure and SDN/NFV, 5G and blockchain technologies and the NGI integration aspect. The NGI is constantly breaking new ground and developing in integrated ways. In addition, at the same time, the summit also hosts several special events, such as the signing ceremony of the IPv6 Forum and BII Group, IPv6 Distinguished Youth Award Ceremony, they received widespread attention from the industry.

As Liu Dong, the chairman of the conference and director of BII-CFIEC, said in his speech, “Today, we gather in Hangzhou in the name of the NGI. It is because we have clearly realized that the IPv6-based global Internet change, great development, great integration, and great governance have become irreversible development trends. We are witnessing, experiencing and promoting the advent of the NGI era."

China’s First IPv6 Public DNS Makes its Official Debut

Recently, BII Group has officially announced the introduction of the public DNS: 240c::6666/240c::6644 of IPv6. Through free public DNS service with excellent performance, it aims to provide safe, stable, high-speed and intelligent Internet experience for the majority of IPv6 Internet users and boost the full implementation of the Action Plan for Promoting Scale Deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). Meanwhile, BII has also launched a global promotion plan for IPv6 Public DNS jointly with the Global IPv6 Forum to provide better online resolution services for users worldwide.

At present, the IPv6 network has become the forerunner for countries to promote the new technological industry revolution and reshape the long-term national competitiveness, and countries in the world have accelerated the pace of transition to IPv6. At the same time, the number of IPv6 users has also exploded in the recent two years, and the development of IPv6 which has been quite for all these years has been significantly improved. However, the introduction of the IPv6 action plan will undoubtedly add a powerful impetus to the IPv6 industry which has been well prepared, and will speed up the pace of overall deployment for China’s future Internet in every aspect.

As an important part of network infrastructure, the Domain Name System (DNS) has been frequently attacked in the past three decades due to its “particularity”, and top-level domain failure, DNS hijacking and large-scale DNS attack happen occasionally, greatly affecting the global Internet industry. At present, most public DNSs that enhance user experience and ensure network security support IPv4 only, which is one of the problems constantly criticized by IPv6 users. To fully facilitate the development of IPv6, BII relies on the self-developed high-performance IPv6 DNS system to provide the public free DNS services, during which DNS: 240c :: 6666 is the first choice and DNS: 240c :: 6644 is the alternate.

BII is the only state-level engineering research center in the field of China’s future Internet and it has been always devoted to the research and promotion of IPv6 future Internet and other industrial fundamental and key technologies of IPv6 over the years. However, the introduction of the IPv6 Public DNS will undoubtedly provide global IPv6 users an excellent choice for optimizing the Internet experience, and the three major characteristics, namely, precision and rapidness, security and stability and DNS64, will fully guarantee the efficiency and stability of IPv6 network.

BII has deployed recursive nodes in many places around the world, such as Beijing, Guangzhou, Lanzhou, Wuhan, Chicago, Fremont, London and Frankfurt. It applies the IPv6 BGP Anycast method to deployment, so that the users can have nearby access and the access delay of domain names resolved to the root server is significantly reduced, as a result of which the speed can be greatly protected. Not only that, IPv6 Public DNS will take the initiative to synchronize the com/ net domain name, cache hotspot domain name and so on to reduce the recursive process to maximize the rapid response.

With regard to security, IPv6 Public DNS supports single-IP resolution speed limit, and security restrictions can be used to effectively prevent malicious attacks, so that users’ access security will be protected in real time. Meanwhile, IPv6 Public DNS also supports DNSSEC security resolution and verification, so that the users will not be hijacked in the access process, and neither malicious jumps nor mandatory advertisements will appear.

At the same time, IPv6 Public DNS specifically provides DNS64 resolution service to facilitate the real needs of IPv6 users to access IPv4-related services, that is, the resolution system can also respond to the request for pure IPv4 network resource resolution by pure IPv6 users, which can also avoid the trouble to some extent that the content has not be fully transformed and upgraded during the transition period from IPv4 to IPv6.

President of BII Liu Dong revealed, “The early and rapid development of IPv6 network is a key measure for China to seize the initiative of the global Internet. The construction and promotion of public infrastructure is not only a prerequisite for the large-scale deployment of IPv6, but the vision and direction of the Center over the years. The global free services provided by IPv6 Public DNS not only provide global IPv6 users a faster and more secure choice, but hope to facilitate the full promotion of the deployment of IPv6 future Internet in China.”

6DNS System Makes its Official Debut to Boost the Scale Deployment of IPv6

The BII Group (www.biigroup.com) announced in Beijing the official launch of the upgraded solution of recursive service IPv6 “6DNS system” today. The system is an upgraded overall solution of DNS recursive service system for enterprises and operators, which is designed to get through the key link of IPv6 network and application to provide users with safe, reliable, swift and easy-to-operate recursive services and boost the full implementation of the Action Plan for Promoting Scale Deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6).

At present, the IPv4 addresses in the world have almost been allocated, the commercial use of IPv6 is speeding up, a large number of enterprises and operators in the world have been gradually upgraded to IPv6. All countries in the world have been clearly aware of the fact that IPv6 is not only a possible trend but an inevitable and only choice for the development of future Internet. At the same time, China has stepped up the development of IPv6 future Internet to a state-level strategic deployment with the introduction of IPv6 Action Plan, and IPv6 is imperative. However, IPv6 support on the DNS recursive system in the market is still not enough and difficult to operate, and the deployment cost is extremely high, causing great inconvenience to the enterprise upgrading.

To solve the actual needs of operators and enterprises, BII has officially launched the IPv6 upgrading solution to recursive service 6DNS system after system research and development and long-term practice verification. It helps operators and enterprises meet the challenges brought by IPv6 future Internet upgrading by making a “secure”, “swift” and “easy-to-operate” overall solution to enable them to use the IPv6 future Internet resources in a steady, secure and quick manner.

In terms of “security”, 6DNS system relies on the BII’s years of technical accumulation and professional experience first to ensure that the entire system is anti-hijacking. To use the 6DNS system can return to correct resolution result and prevent the man-in-the-middle from hijacking, tampering, attacking and filtering the global threatening domain name, providing users a green network environment.

In terms of “swiftness”, it is an excellent user experience of 6DNS system. Since most current DNS authoritative servers do not support IPv6 access, the existing dual stack network still borrows IPv4 DNS for resolution. Once the IPv4 network fails, it will affect IPv6 content access, so IPv6 users also need to rely on IPv4 networks and DNS. The 6DNS system does not affect the existing IPv4 network at all, and to supplement 6DNS to form a complete IPv6 network query access can ensure that the global IPv6 resources are accessible to the users. In addition, 6DNS uses load balancing and cache management technology to fully balance the load between servers to support high-capacity input, output and caching, and adopts multiple optimization techniques to greatly improve user query speed.

In terms of “easy-to-operate”, 6DNS system includes access control management, data statistics and domain name blacklist and other functions. The 6DNS system has a simple and clear Web management interface that can control the terminal access, set the blacklist of domains and make data statistics, including intuitively displaying the real-time data of 6DNS with graphics to provide the administrator with valuable information, following the principles of simpleness and swiftness in real sense.

President of BII Group Liu Dong said, “Before the official release of 6DNS system, we have already cooperated with more than 40 organizations in IPv6 DNS such as Renmin University of China, Nanjing University, Henan Education and Research Computer Network and Shanghai University, and deployed the 6DNS system according to the characteristics of users and network environment in different organizations to provide millions of IPv6 users with services. We also hope to work with partners in the industry to jointly drive the global IPv6 development.”

As the only state-level engineering research center in the field of China’s future Internet, BII has always been focusing on the research on the fundamental key technologies and applications for the industrial development of DNS root server and IPv6 future Internet to build the “Internet Base Technology Public Service Platform” and promote global Internet connectivity. In addition, public DNS: 240c::6666 of IPv6 was also released together with 6DNS system this time, which is designed to provide free public DNS services with excellent performance to enable the IPv6 network users to have access to safe, stable, high-speed and intelligent Internet experience.

The World’s Top Experts Kick Off for Internet Infrastructure Forum (IIF)

During Global Network Technology Conference at Beijing on Nov 28th morning, several world’s top Internet experts kick off for Internet Infrastructure Forum (IIF) together, announcing the launch of IIF which is initiated by BII-CFIEC. Meanwhile, experts including Dr. Vinton Cerf proactively speak for the sustainable development of Internet infrastructure during the forum meeting in the afternoon.

The participants of IIF kick off include Wu Hequan (Academician of CAE, Director of ISC),Dr. Paul Mockapetris (Inventor of DNS, Internet Hall of Fame), Dr. Paul Vixie (Inventor of ISC, Internet Hall of Fame), Professor Kilnam Chon (Father of Korea Internet, Internet Hall of Fame), representative of Professor Jun Murai (Founder of WIDE, Internet Hall of Fame), Professor Nick McKeown (Pionner of SDN, Professor of Stanford University), Mr. Phil Robb (Operation VP of Linux Foundation), Dr. Dan Pitt (Senior VP of MEF), Latif Ladid (Global IPv6 Forum President) and Mr. Liu Dong (President of BII-CFIEC). The forum will focus on the advocacy of IPv6 and DNS as the first step, and carry out in all levels to bolster the connectivity of Internet Infrastructure worldwide.

Dr. Vinton Cerf, Father of Internet, who has been known as the evangelist of IPv6 for decades, prepares a video talk to encourage Internet industry to collectively implement IPv6 for the global good. Other speakers also talk about how emerging network technologies guarantee the development of Internet infrastructure, technologies that include but not limited to IPv6, DNS, access technologies, security and privacy, and so forth.

Mr. Liu Dong, President of BII-CFIEC, advocates prospectively for the sustainable development of Internet infrastructure, and emphasizes that Internet Infrastructure Forum could serve an important role of bolstering innovation and connectivity in the Internet’s infrastructure, worldwide. The sustainable development and evolution of Internet infrastructure is essential to the global cyberspace and digital economy, and IIF will provide a larger scale of innovation platform for the Internet community with more opportunity to contribute to new applications that it enables.

In the future, IIF will represent interests of the industry, developing and sharing best business practices that emerging network technologies implement in support of the need of Internet community to the public, so that they can weigh its outcomes for the digital economy. The forum would also serve as a multistakeholder platform for diverse and innovative players from across the Internet infrastructure industry, academic and user communities to better communicate, and advocate the development of Internet infrastructure for the global good.

Liu Dong, President & CEO of BII Group, was elected the IEEE-SA Standards Board Member

In December 2017, IEEE formally appointed Liu Dong, President & CEO of BII Group as the IEEE-SA Standards Board Member. The term starts on January 1, 2018. He will be responsible for the start-up, approval and review of IEEE international standards. From 2016 to 2017, Liu Dong served as the director of IEEE-SA and fully participated in the strategic decision-making and operation management of the IEEE Standards Association. In the future, Liu Dong will participate in the operation of the IEEE Standards Association and get down to the core development and formulation of IEEE standards, including approving the launch of the IEEE standard project.

IEEE is the world's most famous and largest non-profit multinational standards organization and academic organization in the field of electronic, electrical, computer, communications and automation engineering technology. It has about 420,000 members in 160 countries and regions and marks an important source of innovation drive in information technology field. The IEEE standard-setting content covers many fields such as information technology, communication, power and energy. It has increasingly become the core source of emerging technology standards, especially Internet + international standards. Currently, IEEE Standards Association has developed more than 900 current international standards. Liu Dong’s appointment as the IEEE Standards Board Member, is not only IEEE's recognition of China's technological innovation and international standardization, but also an expression of China's growing influence in the field of international standardization. The IEEE-SA Standards Board is the core management authority of the IEEE Standards Affairs. It coordinates and promotes the formulation and revision of IEEE standards and guides and promotes the proposal submission, start-up review, process negotiation, patent examination and resolution approval of IEEE standard projects. IEEE-SA Standards Board has an important voice and decision-making power.

Liu Dong, President & CEO of BII Group, has long been committed to standard R & D and international promotion. Over the years, he has led BII Group to actively participate in international standardization work and has extensively exchanged and cooperated with international standardization organizations such as IEEE, ISO, IEC, IETF and etc, and created a new standard system and norms in many fields. In addition, Director Liu Dong also actively promoted standard industrialization, made outstanding contributions in testing and certification and commercial deployment, and promoted the actual implementation of standard results and the collaborative innovation of business models.

Liu Dong said, " The standardization strategy is the key for enterprises development and even the development of the industry and plays an important role in leading the trend, deploying products and tackling key technical problems. Numerous engineers are contributing silently in related fields, and forerunners are bound to lead the way.

Figure: Liu Dong, member of IEEE-SA Standards Board, President & CEO of BII Group

GNTC Global Network Technology Conference 2017 Opening in Beijing

On November 28, 2017, “GNTC Global Network Technology Conference 2017” organized by BII -CFIEC prepared a grand opening in Beijing. As one of the world’s largest grand gatherings of network technology, GNTC focused on network reconstruction, Internet infrastructure, SDN, NFV, IPv6, 5G, NB-IoT, network security, cloud and data center, edge network, edge computing and new generation network-related technical hot issues, a
nd held two plenary lectures, one roundtable forum, eight technology summits and several Workshops, presenting more than 2,000 audience on the spot a splendid network technology feast.

Photo: Site of 2017 GNTC Global Network Technology Conference

The digital economy has become the core strength of a new round of global industrial transformation and it is deeply affecting every aspect of social development. Meanwhile, the era of Internet of Everything comes with higher speed with the fundamental change in the demand for the connection of “human beings” to “things”. However, many problems have been found with the increasing number of network users, the rapid expansion of application fields, insufficient flexibility of the existing network architecture, difficulty in new business development, outdated infrastructure and network security.

To cope with the disadvantages of the current network, innovative technologies such as IPv6, SDN, NFV, 5G and edge computing have emerged at the right moment as a new vitality to the network, contributing unprecedented strength to building a softer, cloudized, functionally virtualized and hardware-unitized new generation network. In addition, the network technology is moving toward a turning point of updating development and the network will be redefined.


Network is redefined to boost network reconstruction in the name of technology

In the tide of global network transformation, actions have been taken in succession along the industry chain and parties of the industry are moving ahead hand in hand. After 120 speeches in three days of the GNTC, many innovative technologies continue to break through, and the vertical industry solutions emerge in endlessly. In addition, global operators, solution and equipment providers and large enterprises are making great efforts to deploy their own new network solutions, and actively participate in open source development and standardization of related technologies, boosting network transformation in the name of technology.

When it comes to the development trends of new generation network, many experts including Stanford Professor Nick McKeown and VP of Linux foundation Phil Robb mentioned open source and technological innovation in their speeches. The development of network technology has never stopped innovation, and the future network will also constantly upgrade and transform with the development of cloud, SDN, 5G, artificial intelligence and other technologies.

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of H3C Group You Xuejun said when speaking of the network reform, “The future network will move toward software-oriented, intelligent and scenarized development. Software definition will be ubiquitous and will accelerate the evolution toward intelligent network, and the era of intelligent network will come”.


With the comprehensive promotion of IPv6, the Internet Infrastructure Forum (IIF) issues a global initiative

The Internet with rapid growth carries the people’s increasing expectations, while the sustainable evolution of the Internet infrastructure has become more and more important. To further promote the upgrading and updating of the Internet infrastructure, the “Internet Infrastructure Forum (IIF)” was officially launched at the GNTC site with the aim of providing the Internet community with a larger innovative platform to contribute to the development of new generation applications. It is understood that the Forum will carry out its work successively with its first step focusing on driving IPv6 and DNS, and will pay special attention to promoting the connectivity development of global network infrastructure.

Photo: Opening Ceremony of Internet Infrastructure Forum (IIF)

Liu Dong, Director of BII-CFIEC, expressed, “The emerging network technology is fundamental for the development of Internet infrastructure It’s just two days since the Action Plan for Promoting the Scale Deployment of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) issued by the General Office of the Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council, undoubtedly giving confidence to the Internet industry. In addition, the widespread application of the new generation network technology will give birth to a greater era.”

Academician Wu Hequan also said on the spot, “The Chinese government has clearly specified the strategy and goals for the development of IPv6 as well as the schedule, takes multiple measures and makes use of industry-university-research cooperation to jointly promote the comprehensive deployment of IPv6. It also guides the development toward industrial Internet and promotes the deep integration of the Internet and entity economy, opening up a bigger market for the development of the Internet. In addition, it shall seize the opportunities for the development of information technology, meet the development needs of an intelligent society, strengthen innovation-driven development and develop the digital economy.”

Under the dual drive of market and technology, new technologies, architectures and networks are rapidly forming a new generation network, which is characterized by software, network cloud and virtualization. In this context, the GNTC Global Network Technology Conference will be devoted to building a network technology communication platform, bringing together global network technology authoritative organizations, Internet enterprises, manufacturers and application organizations and seizing the core of industry and technology to create a more benign ecological environment, contributing to the development and innovation of the global network.