This was confirmed by the Executive
Director, Operations, DigitalSENSE Africa Media, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke, told
newsmen in Lagos at the weekend that every arrangement have been made to
certain the event not only holds but successful.
“We have put necessary machineries
in place to ensure a successful Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable this year,” she
asserted.
Mrs. Nweke noted that the one-day
roundtable has received massive support from the industry stakeholders across
the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
She also said that the event billed
to hold on Wednesday, June 6, this year would witness a keynote address by the
Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),
Dr. Eugene Juwah on “IPv6 and the future of Internet in Nigeria.”
She said that though the World IPV6
2011 comes up on Wednesday June 6, her organizers alongside interested
stakeholders to host the Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable on Thursday, June 2, 2011;
ahead of the global date for the commemoration of IPV6 to put Nigerians on
notice of the impeding ‘test flight’ migration.
This, she explained would mean that
on Wednesday, June 8 most of the global Internet service providers like Google
and Yahoo among others would only offer services on IPV6 platform.
Participants to the forthcoming
Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable, she further said, would have a lot to learn as various
experts have been lined up for the roundtable to exchange ideas as well as
network.
She recalled that following the
allocation of the last batch of the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
addresses by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) it became
imperative for the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
(Excerpts from ITRealms) 
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