Recipient Institution:
Advanced Science and Technology Institute
CP. Garcia Ave. UP Diliman
1101 Quezon City
Philippines

Project Leader: Denis F. Villorente

Amount and Duration: USD $ 8,990 / 9 months

Abstract of Project

The advent of the Internet opened a rush of information exchange and knowledge sharing, initially to share computing resources between universities but it proved to be much more than that. This started in the late 70s but in the Philiipines adoption started only in 1993. Nevertheless, internet usage in Philippines now is "everywhere". The acedeme, government, and commercial entities greatly benefit from its ubiquitous presence.

IPv6, the new Internet Protocol, was introduced in 1995, increasing the address size to 128 bits to solve the addresss availability problems in the internet today. It is a significant improvement to the IPv4. At this point, the standard has reached maturity and new applications are just coming out or being developed. However, the Philippines has been slow to adopt this new Internet standard. Because it is a standard, everyone will have to follow it eventually. With the current showing of the internet reception in the Philippines, there is a need to start building capability and knowledge base on this standard now.

The Advanced Science and Technology Institute intitated the IPv6 research in the Pihilippines through AI3. With more than a year of testing and reserach, the IPv6 group of ASTI are equipped with sufficient knowledge on this new protocol and hands-on experience. This project aims to initiate IPv6 usage by the PREGINET infrastructure. With a test bed in place, transition mechanisms will be explored and the schools will pursue in-depth research on the protocol itself, while sustanability will be supported by PREGINET.