Organisations involved in Next Generation Internet research, development and deployment have joined together to drive maximum value from their activities and to promote a common strategic analysis for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) technology deployment going forward. Nearly €1M is being invested by the European Commission in the 6LINK project, launched to provide support for the ongoing clustering activities of IPv6-related projects in Europe. The IPv6 Cluster activities foster and promote synergies between all IPv6 projects, increasing value for the participants and Europe as a whole. 6LINK is established to provide vital support for theIPv6 Cluster.
Objectives
The 6LINK project has three objectives. These are consensus-building
on the subject of IPv6 development and deployment, dissemination of
consensus agreements on subjects relating to IPv6 development and
deployment, and exploitation of consensus agreements to support common
trials and IPv6 standards development. The European Commission is
actively sponsoring a number of IPv6-related IST projects, and there are
other bodies, for example Eurescom, that fund IPv6-related
collaborative work. It is the objective of 6LINK to bring
representatives of these projects together to identify common
experiences and to share knowledge and understanding of the
state-of-the-art with regards to IPv6 development and deployment in
Europe. The second objective, dissemination, builds upon the consensus
and understanding generated by the first objective and seeks to
promulgate the agreements and analyses arrived at by the partners to as
wide an audience as possible. The third objective is concerned with
capitalising on the synergies developed through achievement of the first
objective, by providing support to participants developing inputs to
standards bodies, by presenting 6LINK participants' submissions at
standards meetings, and by identifying opportunities for common trials.
The intention is to bring focus and clarity to the development and
deployment of IPv6 in Europe, and beyond, in the hope that this will
hasten its widespread adoption as the internetworking protocol of
choice, and thereby give European industry and society an important
advantage in the global information society. Fashion Trends 2011