BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- The EU Agency ENISA (the European Network and Information Security
Agency) now Delivers its Web Site Content Over the New Internet Protocol
IPv6. With This Action, ENISA is the First EU Agency to Implement the
European Commission IPv6 Action Plan 
(http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6/docs/european_day/communication_final_27052008_en.pdf).

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All computer and electronic devices that connect to the web and other
online services uses Internet Protocol Addresses. The current Internet
Protocol, IPv4, provides a limited number of such addresses. According to
estimates (http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html) they will be
exhausted by 2011. The new Internet Protocol, IPv6, allows every citizen and
organization to have as many Internet Addresses as they need to connect every
conceivable device to the Internet: mobile phones, car navigation systems,
home appliances, industrial equipment, etc.

Besides the obvious increase in address space, IPv6 offers many
technological advantages 
(http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6/index_en.htm) that have
significant economic impact. IPv6 is expected to be a key driver for many new
mobile and wireless applications and services and an essential technology for
implementing ambient intelligence.

During 2008 ENISA carried out an assessment of Internet Protocol version
6 (http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/it/inf/tech) (IPv6), along with two other
key technologies, regarding its potential to provide increased network
resilience. This analysis was carried out from two perspectives. The first
consisted of analysing the characteristics of the selected technologies and
their public communication network's resilience enhancing features. In
parallel, the effectiveness, problems and gaps that potentially could
compromise the availability of networks and services, was assessed through
interviews with twelve network operators in EU Member States.

Mr Andrea Pirotti, Executive Director of ENISA comments:

"By delivering its web content over the new Internet Protocol, ENISA
actively supports Europe's objective to widely implement IPv6 by 2010. At the
same time, ENISA is using its own recommendations; to take advantage of the
technological and resiliency features of the new protocol."

Bosco Fernandes of Nokia Siemens Networks, former Coordinator of the EC
Steering Committee Task Force on IPv6 and member of the ITU Executive Board,
welcomed this initiative: "ENISA has made a strategic move towards IPv6
deployment. The IPv6 community most welcomes this initiative ENISA has taken.
The Industry at large is now finally appreciating the need to deploy IPv6 in
most sectors. It is a high priority topic in the telecom industry as well as
for 3GPP, ITU and the UMTS Forum."

To offer its web content over IPv6, ENISA deployed native IPv6
connectivity at its service providing network and enabled Domain Name System
(DNS) resolution and Hyper Text Transfer Protocol/Secure (HTTP/S) service
delivery over IPv6.

Background: European Commission communication on IPv6 dated 27 May 2008
(http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ipv6/docs/european_day/communication_final_27052008_en.pdf).

BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, October 13 /PRNewswire/ --

ENISA's Multiannual Thematic Program 
(http://www.enisa.europa.eu/about-enisa/activities/programmes-reports/enisa_wp_2009.pdf) 
has the objective to improve the resilience of public eCommunications 
in Europe.

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