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Dears,<br>
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<font size="3">The ninth edition of
the Latin American IPv6 Forum – FLIP6 – was held on May 16-17
within the framework of the LACNIC XV event that tool place in the
city of Cancun, Mexico.</font>
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As usual, activities
started with the presentation of the annual report of the LAC IPv6
TF
by the Forum’s Chair, Mariela Rocha. </font>
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<font size="3">The program included
the presence of important personalities from our region and from
abroad, either with individual presentations or as part of various
panels.</font>
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Alain Durand
(Juniper), highly experienced in large scale IPv6 deployment,
shared
his view on IPv4 networks, their survival through NAT, and their
coexistence with IPv6. </font>
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A new IPv6 Task
Force was presented by Wanda Perez, who played a key role in its
recent creation in the Dominican Republic.</font>
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The program also
included three panels on topics extremely relevant for the
community:
Panel on Major Implementations, Panel on Statistics, and Panel on
Work Carried out within the Region. </font>
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The first of the
panels was made up by Diego Veca and Jason Fesler of Facebook and
Yahoo! respectively, who in addition to telling the audience about
their corresponding initiatives for IPv6 deployment shared details
about the upcoming World IPv6 Day. </font>
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The Panel on
Statistics was made up by Arturo Servin of LACNIC, Guillermo
Cicileo
of the Argentine University Interconnection Network, and Alejandro
Acosta of BT Latam Venezuela. The three panelists presented IPv6
deployment numbers in terms of assignments, global routing tables
and
applications. </font><font color="#000000"><font size="3">Martin
Levy provided a different point of view, considering the high
level
of IPv6 penetration in those ISPs that have a large number of
peerings.</font></font>
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As a result of the
call for presentations made through the LACIPv6TF mailing list,
four
presenters from the region shared their experiences on topics such
as
VoIP, 6LowPAN, media streaming and addressing with free software.
Presenters included Pablo Rico, Horacio Ruiz and Matias Sentanaro
of
the ORT University of Uruguay, Gustavo Mercado of the National
Technological University of Argentina, Roberto Ferro Escobar of
the
District University Francisco José de Caldas of Colombia, and
Pedro
Torres of the Brazilian National Research Network. </font>
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Jordi Palet of
Consulintel – Spain gave the final presentation, a general view of
government actions aimed at achieving IPv6 deployment.</font>
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Finally, the name of
the person who will serve as LAC IPv6 TF and FLIP6 Chair during
the
next two years was announced. Jorge Villa of Cuba and Alejandro
Acosta of Venezuela were the nominated candidates in an election
in
which a total of 142 ballots were cast. Alejandro Acosta obtained
the
majority of votes and will serve as Chair until the 2013 FLIP6
meeting. </font>
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This edition of
FLIP6 was the ninth edition to be held, which shows that it is
consolidating itself into a space of constant growth and becoming
the
reference IPv6 forum for Latin America and the Caribbean.</font><br>
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