Government, companies, institutions and suppliers must update the Internet protocol
Santo Domingo. As happened in the Dominican Republic with the 809 code about six years ago, when the telephone numbers had to be changed by obligation to 10 digits, the addresses of the current Internet protocols, IpV4, have to be updated and passed to the IPv6 protocol.
Jordi Palet, expert of Consulintel (Madrid), recommended to the users and Dominican citizens "to demand to the companies suppliers of Internet in the country, to give them IpV6 or change service providers. "
Palet was one of the main exponents of the International IPv6 Workshop that held the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) under the auspices of Wind Telecom and the participation of Sofía Silva, from LACNIC / 6 Deploy, and Sandra Pérez, coordinator of Task Force IpV6.
The expert explained that it is essential that the Government, private companies, banks, aviation companies or any company whose clients receive information or online services, act immediately because otherwise they may lose customers.
IPv6 is the protocol chosen for the support of multimedia applications in the new generation of mobile telephony (3G / UMTS) and interoperability with fixed networks is essential.
An IP (Internet Protocol) address is like the "card" of a computer connected to a network, a unique and unrepeatable number that results from grouping four numbers from 0 to 255 separated by dots. With this number, each computer connected to a network that runs the IP protocol is identified.
"The problem is that right now if the ISPs - the internet providers - do not start up, they will not be able to provide IpV6 services and therefore users will be taken off the hook from the rest of the world," he said. Latin America and the Caribbean run the risk of being left behind and losing the innovation train that the use of IPv6 will entail in the short / medium term, if they are not updated.
In the seminar, carried out from 28 to 30 in November, it was explained how the application and service developers can make the transition, what problems they will find and how to solve them to adapt their services and support this new protocol.
The directive of the working group in the Dominican Republic (IPv6 Task Force) and its area of influence was also announced, which encourages collaboration for the use of IPv6 with actors from the industry, education, government and regulatory sectors, among others.
Sold out addresses
In a flat way it was explained that the addresses of the current protocols IpV4 are like the telephone codes -in the Dominican Republic of 10 numbers-: imagine that there was in the software and in the network equipment, a limit to use 10 numbers and that they run out ; it would have to change all the equipment or put a new software to use 11 or 12 numbers to be able to grow.
The past 3 of 2011 February, the addresses were exhausted all over the world and so little by little in each region. "If in the Dominican Republic they do not move in this new system of internet addressing, in some way we will be disconnected from the rest of the world," said Palet.
At the beginning of February 2012 will be doing a test of a full week with the IpV6 protocol and in June there will be another similar test, which has not yet been decided whether it will be a week or a month. "Are we alarmed? No, "says the expert. "You have to react and start planning today, making a plan without thinking about leaving it for the end of the 2012, when this new IpV6 protocol should be adopted."
The Vice-Rector for Research and Linking of INTEC, Julio Sánchez Maríñez, received the participants in the seminar, organized by the Department of Information Technology of INTEC.
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