Liu Dong, President and CEO of BII Group, Serving as Vice President of the IPv6 Forum
Recently, IPv6 Forum, the most influential and most extensive non-profit international organizationin the IPv6 industry, officially announced that Liu Dong, president and CEO of BII Group serves asvice president of the IPv6 Forum since 2018 and is responsible for IPv6 promotion of the IPv6standards. This is the first time that this organization chooses Chinese people as vice president
since its establishment in 1999, which will undoubtedly contribute to the large-scale deploymentof the IPv6 in China.

Photo: Liu Dong, vice president of the IPv6 Forum and president and CEO of BII GroupThe IPv6 Forum, an international technology and industry consortium launched in Europe on July17, 1999, is committed to promoting IPv6 worldwide. It is the most influential and broadest nonprofit international organization in the IPv6 industry. The Forum follows closely the IETF to provide
operational guidelines for facilitating the actual deployment of IPv6. By establishing secure andcomplete IPv6 Internet, people all over the world will have the opportunity to access and embrace
new knowledge and technologies equitably, which serves as global social responsibility for theforum. The IPv6 Forum has set up chapters in more than 90 countries and regions across allcontinents and has made significant contributions to promoting the global IPv6 development.
In his interview, vice president Liu Dong said that as a large Internet country, promoting the largescale deployment of the next generation Internet of IPv6 has become one of the importantmeasures for our country to step into a network power and will bring a series of profoundinfluences on the development of cyberspace in China. With the Action Plan of Promoting theDeployment of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) issued and published by the General Office of the CPC
Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council by the end of 2017, China will enter
the crucial period of all-round development of IPv6 and will assume even greater responsibility inthe next generation Internet field.
Liu Dong’s appointment as vice president of the IPv6 Forum, on the one hand, affirmed many
contributions made by Liu Dong and his team in the field of IPv6 in the past twenty years, including
participating in the formulation of IPv6 related standards, constructing and operating a global IPv6
test center, one of the world's five major IPv6 test laboratories, leading the team to initiate andpromote the IPv6 root server system research and so on. On the other hand, it is the recognitionby the IPv6 international community of the development of the next generation Internet in ourcountry. Latif Ladid, president of the IPv6 Forum, said that China will play a especially importantleadership role in the overall development of IPv6. The appointment of Liu Dong as Vice
President will accelerate the process of stepping into the IPv6 era globally.
As a first action to promote the next generation Internet deployment, BII Group will jointly holdthe "Global IPv6 Summit and Internet Infrastructure Forum" in April 2018 and invite the next
generation world's top experts and industry leaders in the field to fully demonstrate theachievements of the next generation Internet construction and applications, deepen the exchangeand explore the collaboration among all countries to jointly promote the development of the next
generation internet in the world.