Global IPv6 Service Launch Event

On 15 and 16 January 2004 the Global IPv6 Service Launch Event took place in Brussels, at the Residence Palace. The event, which was organised by the European Commission’s Information Society Directorate General in coordination with two EC-funded projects, 6NET and Euro6IX, was held to promote and highlight the progress achieved in the development of IPv6, and to celebrate the launch of the world’s first Global IPv6 Service.

The Global IPv6 Service has been made possible by the collaboration between GÉANT and other research networks around the globe that have successfully deployed IPv6 services across their backbone networks. The official launch of the Global IPv6 Service on 15 January highlighted the availability of this next-generation Internet protocol across a global networking infrastructure to a truly international research community.