Mobile Broadband and IPv6 in Slovenia

Abstract

The Go6 Institute is a Slovenian non-profit umbrella organization and initiative for the deployment of IPv6. The essence of our efforts is raising awareness, education, consulting and assistance in the deployment of the IPv6 Internet protocol on the territory of Slovenia and wider. Slovenia is mainly due to Go6 work and coordination a leader in IPv6 preparedness and deployment in Europe (and possibly one of the best in the world).

The presentation will show main mechanisms and "tricks" that were used to push the IPv6 deployment and awareness country wide and what is the main secret of such a success: Go6 membership platform; creating neutral place for government, regulator, ISPs, integrators and other stakeholders to talk to each other about IPv6; basically what methods works and what does not. We also stress the importance to share that knowledge - that's why Go6 was invited to present our experience around the world.

Second part of the presentation is IPv6 deployment on 3G networks, which have been done at two mobile operators in Slovenia and is nowadays in production state. Everyone can have IPv6 on their mobile phone if they want.

Biography

Jan Žorž started his professional career in RS-232/VAX VMS world in 1992 and continued through Novell and Windows environments all the way to Solaris and other UNIX derivatives, that represents native environment for majority of his projects.

Jan is one of the pioneers of SiOL, the Slovenian national ISP, and has been involved in the organization from the beginning. Among other activities, he began experimenting in 1997 with Internet streaming multimedia content. Based on these experiments, he successfully accomplished projects such as "Dhaulagiri '99 Live" (an Internet multimedia transmission of Tomaz Humar's solo climb of the south wall of Dhaulagiri (called Death Zone) in the Himalayas), "Ski Everest Live 2000" (an Internet live-video transmission and monitoring of extreme skiing from the summit of Mt. Everest by Davo Karnicar) and other similar projects. Together with two other members of the team "Dhaulagiri '99 Live", Jan received a media award/statue "Victor" for special achievement.

For the last seven years Jan has been working as a consultant in the IT field, specializing in IPv6. He co-founded the Go6 institute, a Slovenian IPv6 initiative whose main objective is to raise IPv6 awareness in Slovenia and alert the community to the fact that we are approaching extensive changes on the Internet.

Jan has been invited to present around the world on his work, the model of the Go6 platform, IPv6 awareness raising and deployment at the national level. These speaking engagement have include conferences such as many RIPE Meetings and Google IPv6 Implementors Conference 2010, Internet Governance Forum meetings, World IPv6 Congresses in Paris and London as well as national forums in Germany, Greece, Norway, Macedonia and many others.

Finally, Jan is also primary co-author of very successful procurement (specification) paper, published as official RIPE Best Current Practice document RIPE-501, titled "Requirements For IPv6 in ICT Equipment". This document is translated to more than 10 languages and is used around the world by enterprises and governments, when requesting IPv6 in ICT equipment purchases.