Mr
Erkki Liikanen Member of the European Commission, responsible for
The
purpose of this speech was to address to issues such as the arrival of the next
new generation of Internet technology across global research and education
networks. This entails the launching of the next step for the Internet IPv6. The
latter is “a fundamental technology for the future of the deployment of Internet
in general, which has been largely promoted in the context of the 5th Framework
Programme and in the context of broader European policies like our eEurope
Action Plan” says Erkki Liikanen.
The
particular programme will eventually allow almost anything to be permanently
connected to the Internet.
Another
concept mentioned was eInfrastuctures which empowers the users to be “provided
with the most advanced fully integrated communication and information processing
services to researchers in
Therefore,
this concept will be a “concrete implementation of a new model of shared use of
computing and data resources across diverse technological, administrative and
national domains”.
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