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The Government of India has decided on a set roadmap for deployment of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in the country in a time bound manner.  The decision has been arrived upon after observing the overburden on the IPv4 in India.

As per the projections being made upon the web addresses are expected to exhaust globally by March 2012. The IPv4, the initial version of address platform is already overburdened in India with 18.4 million registered addresses.

The current initiative by the Government has come at most appropriate time when a concerted effort is needed on part of all stakeholders to migrate to a higher platform i.e. IPv6 mentioned Minister of Communications & Information Technology A.Raja while disclosing the National IPv6 Deployment Roadmap.

With this the Government has decided to form an IPv6 Task Force in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode for timely implementation of IPv6 in the country. For efficient implementation of the plan Government has invited all the stakeholders to come forward and make the activities of this task force a success.

The constitution of the IPv6 Task Force along with the roadmap is expected to would enable Indians to start using IPv6 services by March 2012. For this all Telecom and Internet Service providers are required to become IPv6 compliant by December-2011 and offer IPv6 services thereafter.

Speaking on the occasion the Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology Shri Sachin Pilot said, “The Internet Protocol is slowly emerging as a global standard for communication. The current Internet protocol IPv4 served well in last 25 years but it has practical limitations. The new Internet protocol will give practically unlimited addresses besides a host of new and advanced features for running the future communication networks.”

Clarifying the important features of the new version of Internet addresses, Shri Chandra Prakash, Member (T) informed, “All major Service providers (having at least 10,000 internet customers or STM-1 bandwidth) will target to handle IPv6 traffic and offer IPv6 services by December-2011. All Central and State Government Ministries and Departments, including its PSUs, shall switch over to IPv6 services by March-2012. The transition from IPv4 to IP6 will affect many organisations and no organisation can bring this change alone. The Task Force will bring together all stakeholders to discuss, develop and implement the strategies for making the transition possible.”