A comparison of attitudes to IPv6 in three countries

Dell, Peter; Kwong, C.; Syamsuar, D.; Francois, Sebastien; Choy, Ken

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Authors

Dell, Peter

Kwong, C.

Syamsuar, D.

Francois, Sebastien

Choy, Ken

Date

2007

Type

Conference Paper

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Dell, P. and Kwong, C. and Syamsuar, D. and Francois, S. and Choy, K. 2007. A comparison of attitudes to IPv6 in three countries, in Cooper, R. and Madden, G. (ed), International Telecommunications Society Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference, 26 Aug 2007. Perth, Western Australia: Curtin Unversity of Technology.

Source Title

Corporate Strategy and the Path to a New Economy

Source Conference

International Telecommunications Society Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference

Faculty

Curtin Business School

School of Information Systems

School

Curtin Unversity of Technology

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23829

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

Internet Protocol (IP), the underlying protocol upon which the Internet is based, has a number of serious flaws, including limited address space, security and performance limitations. Since the early 1990s a new version of IP (IPv6) has been developed in which these problems are addressed. Yet despite years of “hype”, adoption of IPv6 has been minimal or non-existent. Many efforts have been made to encourage IPv6 adoption around the world but none have been widely successful. The decision to adopt is influenced by the information available to the decision maker. This paper reports the results of studies of attitudes and perceptions to IPv6 in three countries and determines that the prevalent information about the standard in each country is often scarce and inaccurate. This contributes to reluctance to adopt IPv6 and further exacerbates the problem. The paper concludes with recommendations to improve available information so as to increase IPv6 acceptance and adoption.