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The special speech by Hiroshi Fujiwara of Internet Research Institute showed his unique approach of reconsidering IPv6 as the core technology of a city. Fujiwara took the actual example of Ryad in Saudi Arabia to illustrate the challenges to overcome, and solutions to them.
He started by asking "where is the Internet going?". Taking the past histry of Internet into consideration, he pointed out that edge issue and demand-supply imbalance will be the most serious issues.
Edge issue means that original Internet advantage of openness is being lost by solving various issues at the edge of Internet. By "demand-supply imbalance", he meant current lack of contents to consume rapidly improved bandwidth supply.
At present, Web services is attracting people's attention, but IT will soon move to a new paradigm of ubiquitous networking, said Fujiwara. Ubiquitous networking society will connect everything from cellular phones, car navigation systems/ITS, settop boxes, gaming devices, net-enabled consumer electronics products, PDAs, vending machines, ticket gates, to measurement/control devices. IPv6 will be necessary as the base technology for them.
Fujiwara went on to discuss city problems from cultural and historical points of view, and talked about the future of component technology for IPv6 City, especially on mobile technology for cellular phones, GPS and digital broadcasting.
IPv6 sensor networking is an integral component of ubiquitous networking, he said. Measurement/control technology requires higher level of reliability, compatibility, trouble management and support than information technology per se. But the two technology will repidly converge with each other. Already, some sensor networking devices are on the market.
Fujiwara went on to describe a IPv6 City his proposal for Saudi Arabia.
Fujiwara talked about political, social and economic situations in Saudi Arabia and explained Riyadh ICT Center project of this country for IT promotion. He said he made presentation titled "Make Riyadh the World's First IPv6 City" to Saudi Arabian officials, and introdued the contents to the audience.
His proposal consists of two concepts:
1. Adopting IPv6 for the network infrastructure at Riyadh ICT Center.
2. Content services will be based on image computing using eBook.
The latter aims to create electric version of Islamic documents to present the information to the world. Fujiwara said that eBook is suited for Islamic documents because such socuments are often only available in paper form.
Fujiwara's presentation tackled the theme of using Internet for Islamic culture in the age of rapid globalization. It would be interesting to see how IPv6 technology, will be applied to social infrastructure.
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