June 8 will be held a forum on IPv6, led by RENATA and the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications.

The Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications, the National Academic Advanced Network RENATA, the Valle del Cauca University Network for High Speed RUAV, with support from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano and the Universidad Libre de Cali, invite to IPv6 Forum World Day Chapter Colombia.

The event will take place on Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 7:30 am, when it was first celebrated World Day of IPv6, an initiative of some of the largest web sites Internet coordinated by the Internet Society. The celebration aims to motivate and spread the implementation of this new protocol and prepared with real evidence of the behavior of sites running IPv6.

Colombian Forum will hold a series of lectures, demonstrations and deployment of services based on this protocol, which aim to motivate the country to adopt, as soon as possible, the IPv6 protocol through business strategies, government and technical mechanisms to ensure a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6 safely, without injury and transparent to the user.

The morning agenda will run from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogota, with broadcast throughout the country by RENATA and the Internet. The agenda for the evening will be from the Universidad Libre de Cali with support RUAV network.

Colombia following the recommendations set out within the framework of the Plenipotentiary Conference of ITU 2010 (PP-10), the Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America "eLAC 2010-2015", the World Summit on the Information Society Information Society (WSIS), the lines of action suggested by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the activities of ICANN, LACNIC reports, among others, should lead an enabling environment to ensure the development of the Company Information, digital connectivity, closing the gap of digital services and appropriation of ICT.

In addition to this, ran out the remainder of the International Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and within a few months, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR), then no IPv4 addresses can be purchased and the option to transition to IPv6 is a fact and is happening around the world.

Therefore, the Colombian Government has been promoting initiatives to ensure the early adoption of IPv6 in coexistence with IPv4 for IP communications traffic, especially supported by the Internet. Thus, the technology ensures that projects are adequate to meet the goals of PLAN LIVING DIGITAL11, especially going from 2.2 to 8.8 Internet subscribers, 50% of households and MSMEs connected to the Internet, tripling the number of municipalities connected, among others, enabling the development of an Internet platform and in line with modern global trends.