my country started IPv6 construction early but is still late. How will we roll up our sleeves and work hard in 2017?

As early as 2003, my country put the development of IPv6 on the agenda. After five years of development, the first phase achieved the predetermined strategic goals. However, since 2008, the development of IPv6 in my country has slowed down and started to lag behind the international level. It can be said that we got up early but arrived late. Relevant departments have learned from their mistakes. Under the impetus of the "13th Five-Year Plan" last year and the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of Major Information Infrastructure Projects" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") formulated and issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, my country will officially start the deployment and construction of IPv6 address projects in 2017.

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Reflection: Why my country's IPv6 construction started early but caught up late

The latest data shows that my country ranks 52nd in the world, with only 7% of Internet users using IPv6, which is lower than Belgium, the United States, and Japan. It is worth noting that my country put the development of IPv6 on the agenda as early as 2003. After five years of development, the first phase achieved the predetermined strategic goals. However, since 2008, the development of IPv6 in my country has slowed down and started to lag behind the international level. Wu Jianping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at Tsinghua University, lamented that my country's IPv6 development can be described as "getting up early and catching up late."

In Wu Jianping's view, there are three main reasons for the current situation.

First, my country is relatively backward in the use of Internet technology and started late, which led to a shortage of addresses. The application caused by the shortage of addresses is to use private addresses to export and convert them into public addresses. The industry chain is indifferent to IPv6. A user abroad must have a public address to get the service of an operator, otherwise he will not choose your service. This is not necessarily the case in China. Sometimes people have few choices, and there is no awareness that they must choose a public address.

Secondly, the Internet lacks the international competition it deserves. Large ISPs such as Google and Facebook have already migrated a large number of applications to IPv6. Some ISPs in my country have also migrated some applications, but they no longer provide deep-level services. Some domestic ISPs are not in the international competitive environment. In addition, operators and information providers have complaints with each other. Operators complain that ISPs do not migrate applications, so users cannot access resources, and ISPs complain that operators do not develop users, so no one uses resources. In fact, they have no strategic vision.

In addition, the cost and price of my country's Internet security supervision measures are very high. In terms of IPv6, the entire migration needs to be rebuilt. Some security experts also believe that IPv6 itself has end-to-end encryption functions, which makes many security management and monitoring in our country very difficult.

Positive: Multiple industrial support policies introduced

At present, the task of developing IPv6 in my country is very urgent. On the one hand, my country's IPv4 is facing the bottleneck of insufficient URL resources. The use of IPv6, in addition to effectively solving the problem of insufficient network address resources, also solves the obstacles of connecting various access devices to the Internet. Under this circumstance, my country responded quickly and formulated a series of industrial support policies. The "13th Five-Year Plan" proposed "advanced layout of the next generation of the Internet and comprehensive evolution and upgrading to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)". Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology formulated and issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of Major Information Infrastructure Projects", which proposed that my country should advance the layout of the next generation of the Internet and comprehensively evolve and upgrade to IPv6.

The 13th Five-Year Plan proposes to "plan ahead for the next generation Internet and fully evolve and upgrade to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)". At the 2016 "China Next Generation Internet Construction and Application Summit", the National Next Generation Internet Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the "Alliance") released the "Action Plan to Support the Comprehensive Deployment of the Next Generation Internet - IPv6 Hundred Cities and Thousands of Towns Upgrade Project".

The alliance proposed that by 2018, my country will fully achieve the goal of evolving and upgrading to the next generation Internet. By the end of 2017, six national next generation Internet innovation service platforms (including IPv4-IPv6 conversion platform and six derivative centers) (A level) will be built, several next generation Internet innovation service platforms (B level) will be built, and 100 cities, 100 parks (high-tech zones/economic development zones), 100 industries, and 300 Internet towns will be upgraded to the next generation Internet.

In terms of financial support, the alliance will join hands with social capital to adopt a PPP cooperation model to invest 10 billion yuan, of which 8 billion yuan will be invested to support the construction of the next-generation Internet innovation service platform (including an IPv4-IPv6 conversion platform and six derivative centers) in 50 cities and 50 parks, and an additional 2 billion yuan will be provided to support the first batch of 30 cities and 30 parks.

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology formulated and issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Construction of Major Information Infrastructure Projects", which proposed that my country should proactively plan for the next generation of the Internet and comprehensively evolve and upgrade to IPv6.

It is worth noting that in 2017, my country will officially deploy and build the IPv6 address project and launch related applications. As the technical foundation of the next generation Internet, once the IPv6 address begins to be deployed, it means that my country's new generation Internet will also enter the deployment and application stage. Since the next generation Internet can support many hardware facilities including PCs, smart mobile terminals, and smart furniture, it will have a significant role in promoting the development of my country's new generation information technology industries such as the Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, and Artificial Intelligence.