Mntsnow
12-31-2003, 11:06 AM
Japan, China and South Korea are reportedly planning to jointly develop Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the next-generation Internet standard, a move that will challenge the U.S.-dominated market for current IPv4-based Internet technology.
The report in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a Japanese business daily, said the countries aimed to take the lead in Internet technologies, with a broad move to adopt IPv6 beginning in 2005.
It named several Japanese companies that it said would participate in the IPv6 development: Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Nippon Telegraph, Mitsubishi Research Institute and Internet Initiative Japan. From Korea, the newspaper said, Samsung and Korea Telecom were expected to participate, along with Chinese companies such as China Telecommunications.
Read more (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5134110.html)
The report in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a Japanese business daily, said the countries aimed to take the lead in Internet technologies, with a broad move to adopt IPv6 beginning in 2005.
It named several Japanese companies that it said would participate in the IPv6 development: Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC, Matsushita Electric Industrial, Nippon Telegraph, Mitsubishi Research Institute and Internet Initiative Japan. From Korea, the newspaper said, Samsung and Korea Telecom were expected to participate, along with Chinese companies such as China Telecommunications.
Read more (http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5134110.html)