Keynote Speakers Jun Murai (WIDE Project) K1 Keynote Speech "A Strategy of IPv6 Deployment" Mon. 18 December 09:45-10:45 Presentation Slides [ppt] 7.58M Jun Murai is currently Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University (Japan). In 1984, he developed the Japan University UNIX Network (JUNET), and in 1988 established the WIDE Project (a Japanese Internet research consortium) of which he continues to serve as the General Chairperson. He is President of the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) and a member of ICANN's Board of Directors. His Japanese publications include "Internet" and "Internet II" (Iwanami Shoten Publishing). He supervised the Japanese translation of the "Internet System Handbook" (Impress) and "IPv6: Next Generation Internet Protocol" (Prentice Hall) among countless others. Profesor Murai received his Master's (1984) and Doctorate (1987) degrees in Computer Science from Keio University. Steve Deering (IETF IPngwg Co-Chair/Cisco Systems) K2 Keynote Speech "IPv6: Addressing the Future" Tues. 19 December 09:30-10:15 Presentation Slides [ppt] 114k Steve Deering is a Cisco Fellow and a member of Cisco's Advanced Internet Architectures Group, where he is working on the development and standardization of architectural enhancements to the Internet Protocol. Prior to joining Cisco in 1996, he spent six years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, engaged in research on advanced internet technologies, including multicast routing, mobile internetworking, scalable addressing, and support for multimedia applications over the Internet. He is a member of the Internet Architecture Board, a present or past chair of several Working Groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the inventor of IP Multicast, and the lead designer of the new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. IETF Works on the IPv6 Standards, Paris 1999 Current Standards Status and Goals, Telluride 2000 Alain Durand (IETF ngtrans Co-Chair/Sun MicroSystems) K3 Keynote Speech "IPv6 Transition Strategies" Tues. 19 December 09:30-10:15 Presentation Slides [ppt] 698k Alain Durand is a staff engineer with the Internet Engineering Group with SUN Microsystems. Alain serves as IETF NGtrans co-chair. Alain was previously employed at IMAG, Institut d'Informatique et de Mathematiques Appliquees de Grenoble, France. "IPv6: Save the Internet for the Next Generation" Sun - IPv6 Ready, Telluride 2000