Irish IPv6 Summit 2009 (Dublin Castle)

Ireland's IPv6 Task Forceorganised and hosted an all-day event in Dublin Castle on Wednesday 28th January 2009. Over 150 delegates attended the event including those responsible for communications policy in the public and private sectors, managers and technical staff, academics and telecommunications operators and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

The aim of the event was to raise awareness in the Irish private and public sectors about the need for immediate IPv6 deployment, and issues around such deployment. The aim now is that portal representing the slides and the video streams of the talks can act as an ongoing resource for those promoting IPv6 in Ireland and further afield.

The programme included an experienced panel of speakers with extensive expertise in these issues who represented a range of relevant perspectives. The talks did discuss opening problems with IPv6 and with IPv6 deployment, rather than skirt around them, but the overall message was still clear: no alternative to IPv6 is able to emerge in the short time frame we have before the current IPv4-based Internet starts to feel some real growing pains due to the depletion of the address space.

A complete programme is available on-line (with links to slides and video streams for each talk) or for download:

• Final Programme (HTML) on-line, NOTE this programme now has links to slides in PDF from each talk and to a video stream of each talk (20090205);
• Final Programme (PDF) download.

Registration is closed:

• On-Line Registration - closed.

This event was supported by:

• TSSG in Waterford IT;
• HEAnet Ireland's National Education and Research Network;
• DCENR Ireland's Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources;
• Irish National IPv6 Centre.

This event was sponsored by:

• The Internet Society (ISOC);
• IEDR IE Domain Registry;
• Hutchinson 3G IE;

Maps of the event venue can be obtained from: Dublin Castle Maps. The event is in An Caisleán Conference Centre, at the north-west corner of the "Upper Castle Yard" or Great Courtyard. The registration desk is on ground floor, and conference room is down the stairs from there. The best entrance to use is the Cork Hill Gate, just off Dame Street/Lord Edward Street, pedestrian access only: turn right when you enter the first courtyard, and the doors in the corner will give access to to the registration desk. The closest public carpark is Jury's Inn Christchurch, which is located in Werburg Street.