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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“World IPv6 Day” to take
place on June 8, 2011</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Times","serif"'> </span><i><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>GENEVA, SWITZERLAND and RESTON, VIRGINIA, USA</span></i><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>– <b>12 January 2011</b> – Facebook, Google
(NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), websites with more than one billion
combined visits each day, are joining major content delivery networks Akamai
(NASDAQ: AKAM) and Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW), and the Internet Society,
for the first global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6. On June 8,
2011, dubbed “World IPv6 Day,” participants will enable IPv6 on
their main services for 24 hours. With IPv4 addresses running out this year,
the industry must act quickly to accelerate full IPv6 adoption or risk
increased costs and limited functionality online for Internet users everywhere.
The companies are coming together to help motivate organizations across the
industry—Internet service providers, hardware manufacturers, operating
system vendors and other web companies—to prepare their services for the
transition.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Internet Society is supporting
World IPv6 Day as part of its efforts to accelerate IPv6 deployment.
“2011 is a pivotal year in IPv6 deployment, and World IPv6 Day will prove
to be an important milestone,” commented Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society’s
Chief Internet Technology officer. “By providing an opportunity for the
Internet industry to collaborate to test IPv6 readiness we expect to lay the
groundwork for large-scale IPv6 adoption and help make IPv6 ready for prime
time. The greater the scope of the trial, the more effective it will be for all
participants so we wholeheartedly welcome additional participants.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IPv6, the successor to the protocol
currently used on the Internet, was designed in the late 1990s but has not seen
deployment on a global scale. With IPv4 address space running out, the industry
cannot afford to wait much longer.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief
Internet Evangelist and co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol stack, commented,
"In the short history of the Internet, the transition to IPv6 is one of
the most important steps we will take together to protect the Internet as we
know it. It's as if the Internet was originally designed with a limited number
of telephone numbers, and we're soon going to run out." Google has offered
a separate IPv6-only version of search on </span><span lang=EN-GB><a
href="http://ipv6.google.com/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#00008E'>ipv6.google.com</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
since early 2008, and during World IPv6 Day the company will enable IPv6 for
its main websites, including </span><span lang=EN-GB><a
href="http://www.google.com/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#00008E'>www.google.com</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
and </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.youtube.com/"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00008E'>www.youtube.com</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Given the diversity of technology that
powers the Internet, the global nature of the trial is crucial to identify
unforeseen problems. “Participating in World IPv6 Day will allow us to
obtain real-life data that we can use to ensure a seamless user experience as
we transition to IPv6,” said Adam Bechtel, Vice President for
Yahoo’s Infrastructure Group. “We welcome this opportunity to
collaborate with the technical community and provide leadership in addressing
the scaling challenges facing the Internet.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>World IPv6 Day marks a key milestone
in enabling more and more computers and smart phones to come online. As more of
the world moves online, IPv6 will be critical for the Internet to reach its
full potential as a catalyst for growth, innovation and economic prosperity.
IPv6 provides over four billion times more addresses than IPv4, which will help
connect the billions of people not connected today.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Facebook views the rollout of IPv6 as
a critically important step to keep the world connected. “As an industry,
we're working together to ensure future generations continue to have open and
direct access to the Internet as we do today," said Jonathan Heiliger,
Vice President of Technical Operations at Facebook. "The number of
web-connected devices is exploding, and World IPv6 Day is a crucial step in
ensuring they can all communicate."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:
AKAM), a leading provider of cloud optimization services, will enable customers
to participate in World IPv6 Day. "IPv6 adoption is still in its
infancy," said Harald Prokop, Senior Vice President of Engineering at
Akamai. "We stand ready to support customers through this important trial,
and believe that early planning and testing will ensure a smooth transition to
IPv6." To support the transition to IPv6, Akamai customers will be able to
seamlessly make their existing websites available via IPv6 without requiring
disruptive changes to their origin networking infrastructure.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tom Coffeen, Director of Global
Network Architecture for Limelight Networks, said, "As part of our ongoing
commitment to IPv6, Limelight Networks today is actively delivering customer
content over the world’s first fully IPv6-compliant content delivery service.
We are pleased to participate in World IPv6 Day to encourage the adoption of
IPv6 across the Internet and to transform address resource challenges into
innovation and competitive advantage for our customers."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One of the goals of World IPv6 Day is
to expose potential issues under controlled conditions and address them as soon
as possible. The vast majority of users should be able to access services as
usual, but in rare cases, misconfigured or misbehaving network equipment,
particularly in home networks, may impair access to participating websites
during the trial. Current estimates are that 0.05% of users may experience such
problems, but participating organizations will be working together with
operating system manufacturers, home router vendors and ISPs to minimize the
number of users affected. Participants will also be working together to provide
tools to detect problems and offer suggested fixes in advance of the trial.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For more information about World IPv6
Day, how to get involved, and links to useful information for users, visit </span><span
lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/worldipv6day"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00008E'>www.internetsociety.org/worldipv6day</span></a></span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About the need for IPv6</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>IPv4 has approximately four billion IP
addresses (the sequence of numbers assigned to each Internet-connected device).
The explosion in the number of people, devices and web services on the Internet
means that IPv4 is running out of space. IPv6, the next-generation Internet
protocol, which provides over four billion times more space, will connect the
billions of people not connected today and will help ensure the Internet can
continue its current growth rate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About the Internet Society</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Internet Society is a non-profit
organisation founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet-related
standards, education and policy. It is dedicated to ensuring the open
development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of people
throughout the world. See </span><span lang=EN-GB><a
href="http://www.internetsociety.org/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.internetsociety.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Palatino","serif"'>Leslie Daigle<br>
Chief Internet Technology Officer<br>
Internet Society<br>
<a href="mailto:daigle@isoc.org">daigle@isoc.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<<a href="mailto:bekele@isoc.org"><span
style='color:blue'>bekele@isoc.org</span></a>><br>
Tel: +251 911 22 13 33/+41 22 809
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