Press Release
Kuwait IPv6 Council Has Been Founded___________________
Kuwait/Luxembourg, 20.10, 2023 - The IPv6 Forum welcomes the formation of a new IPv6 initiativewith the establishment of the Kuwait IPv6 Council under the leadership Professor Khalid Al-Begain
President Kuwait College of Science and Technology as its Chairman.
"The Kuwait IPv6 Council will invite key stakeholders from government, industry andacademia to work jointly on the Kuwait IPv6 roadmap milestones with a collaborative vision,for Kuwait to focus its efforts to achieve the adoption the New Internet world based on IPv6"
stated Professor Khalid Al-Begain, Chairman.

The prime objective of the Kuwait IPv6 Council and its members is to promote deployment andcoordinated uptake of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) with support from industry, education,
research communities and government agencies enabling equitable access to technology andknowledge.
"The Kuwait IPv6 Council has been created to extend to the Kuwaitn Internet community astrong voice and representation in the new Internet world to create momentum in deploying
IPv6 and gradually sunset IPv4," stated Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum President.
The Internet World has been using the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) for the last fourdecades. Despite its tremendous success, IPv4 has exhibited signs of strain, especially in its totally
depleted IP address space and its growing security concerns. IPv6 successfully preserves today's
Internet, and adds much more, such as virtually unlimited IP address space to connect everyone andeverything, stateless auto-configuration, seamless mobility, automated network management, end toend security and new service levels such as SRv6, to name a few examples of opportunity.
About the Kuwait IPv6 Council
The Kuwait IPv6 Council is a chapter of the IPv6 Forum dedicated to the advancement andpromotion of IPv6 best practices and lessons learned. Comprised of individual members, as opposed

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to corporate sponsors, its mission is to provide technical leadership and innovative thought for thesuccessful integration of IPv6 into all facets of networking and telecommunications infrastructure,present and future. The Kuwait Council collaborates within the IPv6 Forum with other national based
councils in creating a peer reviewed compendium of recommended IPv6 specific standards anddeployment best practices. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12904494/

AboutIPv6 ForumThe IPv6 Forum is a world-wide consortium of international Internet service providers(ISPs) and National Research & Education Networks (NRENs), with a mission to promote
IPv6 by improving market and user awareness, creating a quality and secure New Generation
Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology. The key
focus of the IPv6Forum today is to provide technical guidance for the deployment of IPv6. IPv6 Summits areorganized by the IPv6 Forum and staged in various locations around the world toprovide
industry and market with the best available information on this rapidly advancing technology.
Please visit http://www.ipv6forum.com-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Organization Contact:
IPv6 Forum Contact:
Latif Ladid
Luxembourg
Chairman: Professor Khalid Al-Begain+352 30 71 34
Latif.ladid@ipv6forum.com
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