IPv6 Status in Korea

Hyun-Kook Kahng: Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea University, Korea. (TEL) +82-2-3290-3989 (FAX) +82-2-925-1424 (E-Mail) kahng@korea.ac.kr (URL) http://ccl.korea.ac.kr

Abstract

It is to provide information on research activities, and to introduce an IPv6 deployment status and plan in Korea. To promote IPv6 is to provide a strong growth momentum from IPv6 sector to other IT industries. It is to deploy various types of IPv6 networks, to develop commercial IPv6 equipments, to verify and certify the IPv6 interoperability among those equipments, and finally to provide an IPv6 trial service to users. All these activities are led by IPv6 forum Korea. The forum works with international organizations and foreign communities for IPv6 globalization.

Short Biography

Hyun-Kook Kahng : Hyun-Kook Kahng is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Information Engineering at Korea University. His current research interests are in IPv6 transition, Mobile IP, transport protocol design and analysis, multicast and QoS protocols.

Before he joined the faculty of Korea University in 1994, he was a Senior Engineer in Protocol Engineering Center at ETRI from 1991 to 1994 and an Editor in ITU-T X.601 ¡°Multipeer Communications Framework¡± from 1988 to 2000, ITU-T X.602 "Group Management Protocol¡± from 2001 to 2004. He is an IPv6-forum Korea Technical Area Director from 2003. He received a BA degree from the Department of Electronics Engineering, Korea University, in 1982; an ME degree from the Department of ¡¡Electrical Engineering University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, in 1984; and a Ph.D degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1990.