•• The World of IPv6 •• TWNIC Page Parking e-Service •• Tips for Business Success INDEX Focus

TWNIC’s Contributions to IPv6 Promotion in 01 TWNIC’s Participation in IPv6-related Activities 03

Service

Website Building with TWNIC Page Parking e-Service 04 Promotional Registration for Chinese and English Domain Name 04

Events

Mydn. tw Gatherings 05 Say No To Lengthy Domain Names 05 APRICOT 2008 in 05

International

TWNIC Assists ICANN in IDN TLD Application Evaluation 06

Survey

TWNIC 2008 Q1 Taiwan Internet Connection Bandwidth Survey 07 .tw Domain Name Registration 08 .tw Domain Name Statistics 08 WWW Server Growth Chart 09 Host Growth Chart 09 Publication

2007 TWNIC Annual Report Published 10

Training

DNS and Network Security Courses 10 TWNIC’s Page Parking e-Service Courses 10 08 TWNIC .twSummer Newsletter 戊子年 夏 HOME INDEX

Focus

IP Addresses for Everyone and Ubiquitous Coverage

Due to the gradual depletion of IPv4 addresses, IPv6 has been developed. In order to promote IPv6 applications, elevate IPv6 technology development and cultivate future uses for IPv6, TWNIC has developed plans to achieve its goal of providing “IP addresses for everyone and network connection for everything”; for example, they have developed plans to assist local ISPs in providing commercial IPv6 services and establishing exchange centers, to use IPv6 to build its on-line aquarium that allows users to observe penguins and coral right at home, and to adapt IPv6 to use in its provision of on-line meteorological observation services. Lately, TWNIC also conducts multiple training courses allowing more people in Taiwan to become familar with IPv6.

TWNIC’s Contributions to IPv6 Promotion in Taiwan

To promote IPv6’s further use, TWNIC has been searching for cooperators to use IPv6 in every aspect of daily life, such as housing, transportation, education and entertainment. Recently, the most high profile project has been installing the first IPv6-enabled intelligent residences, which was applied by Farglory Realty Corporation and Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. The press conference of the intelligent residences was launched in March and the report is as follows.

The First IPv6-enabled Intelligent Residences in Taiwan

At the press conference on March 14th, Farglory Realty Corp. announced that it plans to build the first IPv6-enabled intelligent residences in Taiwan. This represents an unprecedented technology breakthrough for Taiwan,as Japan is the only other nation with significant IPv6 market penetration. This project will help alleviate the problem incorporate IPv6, the latest second-generation network technology, into residential buildings in order to help with solving the future problems of insufficient IP addresses.

At the press conference, Farglory Realty delivered its official introduction of IPv6 along with its intelligent residence projects. This would allow for a combination of IPv4 and IPv6 in its 11 projects, including “Future U-Home”, “Ive League Residence”, and “Farglory Yilang Residence”. The “Future U-Home” project will be the first to be completed in 2008 and will accommodate more than 4,800 households while providing them with over one million fixed network addresses. These projects will help push Taiwan to the global forefront in usage of IPv6 (the second-generation network) technologies; second only to Japan.

The press conference was presided over by Teng-Hsiung Chao, Chairman of Farglory Group, and attended by several distinguished figures, such as Tien-Lai Teng, General Director of Department of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Yen-Sung Lee, Executive Vice President of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., and Feipei Lai, TWNIC Chairman. According to Chairman Lai, thanked for its initiative to join the global trend of IPv6 development in both infrastructure and technology, Taiwan has ensured itself a future of “Internet For Everything,” extending network connections beyond the telecommunication industries to residences, automobiles, national defense, security and other industries. It is hoped that, through the efforts of some far-sighted business, such as Farglory, the promotion of IPv6 in Taiwan will pick up speed, and allow Internet development in Taiwan to elevate from “Internet For Everyone” to “Internet for Everything” in the near future.

1 Summer Newsletter HOME INDEX “IPv6 Happy Go”: Charity Activity of TWNIC

To familiarize people in Taiwan with IPv6 and its uses in daily life, TWNIC held an exhibition called “IPv6 Applications in Future Life” in the special

exhibition area on the 3rd floor of the west wing of the National Taiwan Science 戊子年 Education Center in Taipei City in 2008. On April 12th, TWNIC held its own “IPv6 Happy Go” program, by inviting children from the aboriginal Atayal tribe 夏 living in Jiashih Township, a remote region in Taiwan, to have a free visit to the exhibition and to learn more about this new technology as well as the unlimited possibilities it would bring in future life.

These children were students from fourth to sixth grades in Gingping Elementary School, Jiashih Township, County. From this exhibition, they learned about the convenience IPv6 can bring to every aspect of life, including food, medicine, residence, transportation, learning, and entertainment.

Throughout the “IPv6 Happy Go” activity, the young participants were extremely excited and delighted. This activity helped inspire children to develop more interests in the importance of IPv6 to future life. For all parties concerned, this activity was a huge success in terms of both charity purpose and educational meaning.

IPv6 Ready Logo

As on April 22nd 2008, Taiwan has manufactured 50 products rewarded IPv6 Ready Logo Phase I certifications, the third highest ranking in the world, and 24 products received IPv6 Ready Logo Phase II certifications, also third highest ranking in the world.

IPv6 Ready Logo Phase I IPv6 Ready Logo Phase II (Total 352 Products with IPv6 Ready Logo Phase I) (Total 176 products with IPv6 Logo Phase II)

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Updated by June 1st 2008 Updated by June 1st 2008 Figures Provided by Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.

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TWNIC’s Participation in IPv6-related Activities

“IPv6 Theory and Applications” Training Courses

To promote the increased application of IPv6, enhance technological development and cultivate use, TWNIC held four training courses, “IPv6 Theory and Applications” for civil servants in the Data Management Process Center of the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS), Executive Yuan, in March and April. The four courses were all received enthusiastically and allowed their participants to learn more about IPv6 and its related applications.

TWNIC also held three more training courses about “IPv6 Theory and Applications” at National Taitung University in Taitung on May 16th, National Penghu University in Penghu on May 28th, and National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung on June 13th. These three courses were open to the general public in the hope of promoting knowledge about IPv6 and its use among citizens in Taiwan.

All the training courses are conducted in the form of lectures, combined with hands-on practice. This provides participants the latest IPv6 know-how and skills, in order to enhance the overall capabilities of the IPv6 environment now being established in Taiwan.

The attendance at these courses is limited and applications for each courses will not be accepted until noon, two weeks prior to the courses. For further information, please visit http://map.twnic.net.tw/ipv6_97/.

2008 Global IPv6 Summit

The 2008 Global IPv6 Summit was held in Beijing from April 15th to 17th to honor the contributions of member organizations and individuals in the promotion of global IPv6 certification. TWNIC and the Telecommunication Laboratories of Chunghwa T e l e c o m b o t h s e n t their representatives on behalf of the National IPv6 Development and Deployment Program to attend the summit.

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Services

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Website Building with TWNIC Page Parking e-Service 夏

TWNIC provides an all-in-one package of network services. Users who have registered .tw domain names are entitled to use for free its “Page Parking e-Service.” This service package includes web design, DNS hosting and e-mail forwarding, providing six style templates, such as, Small and Medium Enterprise, Fresh Graduates, SOHO, Still at School, Warm Family and Deep in Love. Designing a website for individual and business users is as easy as a few clicks! To see the complete range of “Page Parking e-Service,” please visit http://pageparking.tw.

Promotion for Chinese and English Domain Name Bundle Registration

To help Small and Medium Enterprises in Taiwan register their unique domain names, TWNIC has launched its “Promotional Registration for Chinese and English Domain Name” project. SMEs can have their own Chinese and English domain names and free access to TWNIC’s “Page Parking e-Service.” From domain name registration to webpage design, DNS hosting and e-mail forwarding, SMEs can find all the services they need for e-business in TWNIC. Just a few clicks and they are ready to have their websites that allow them to tap into the wide customer base and business opportunities on the Internet.

Starting from now to December 31st, 2008, the special discount is available for users who subscribe to a two-year registration of “com.tw and IDN.tw” or “ascii. tw and IDN.tw” domain names. At a bargain price, SMEs can have both Chinese and English domain names to enable around-the-clock marketing and non-stop business opportunities. For further information about this special discount, please visit http://52168.tw or http://我要一路發.tw.

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Events

Mydn. tw Gatherings

The first Mydn.tw gathering in 2008 was launched on April 25th together by TWNIC and Net-Chinese. Titled “Five Steps for Start-ups—Establishment, Trademark, Domain Name, Website Building, and Marketing,” this gathering offered guidance for start-up owners on how to create visitor-attracting domain names for their websites and how to build unique brand images quickly and easily by using TWNIC Page Parking e-Service. From this gathering, they learned useful tips on web-based marketing, the first step toward a successful and profitable e-business.

On May 22nd, TWNIC and Seednet jointly held a Mydn.tw gathering entitled “Websites Decide the Style of Your Business,” teaching different types of website owners how to choose the right method to build their own websites. Individual owners can register personalized domain names and use the Page Parking virtual mainframes to build their customized websites. e-Service, while SMEs or SOHO can choose enterprise domain names together with virtual mainframes as well as use Site The limited number of application acceptances for each Builder software to enable more advanced website design and gathering; therefore, early registration is strongly recommended. setup. Furthermore, large enterprises or E-Commerce website For on-line application, please visit "http://52168.tw" or "http://我 owners can commission professional website designers and use 要一路發.tw".

Say No To Lengthy Domain Names

To encourage students to better understand the importance of traveling, to talk to students and faculty at Chung Yuan Christian a good domain name, TWNIC has invited prominent figures in University (CYCU). Titled “No Longer Lengthy Domain Names: the Internet industry and owners of popular websites visited Use .tw Domain Names Now,” this activity showed how to share by millions to share their experiences and tips in deciding joy and happiness in daily life through the Internet, how to market domain names, designing styles and enhancing popularity personal websites by having the right domain names, and how of their websites. From their speeches participating students to attract millions of hits by coming up with catchy and trendy have learned how to promote their websites by coming up with domain names. Say goodbye to lengthy and dull domain names creative, personal, short and easy-to-remember domain names. for your websites or blogs by using .tw domain names!

On March 28th, TWNIC invited a few famous bloggers, using .tw This activity was a huge success thanks to the enthusiastic domain names, such as, “Queen,” a famous blogger on gender participation of CYCU students and faculty. TWNIC will hold relations, “Christabelle’s Imaginary World,” a website introducing similar presentations at other colleges in Taiwan. different cuisine, and “Free Traveler,” a charity website on

APRICOT 2008 in Taipei

The 2008 Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on from over 50 countries attending the events. According to Operational Technologies (APRICOT 2008) was held from TWNIC, the Organizer of the APRICOT 2008, the events had February 20th to 29th in the Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei. It three key components: (1) keynote speeches and peripheral consisted of workshop sessions from February 20th to the 24th, meetings introducing the latest technologies in IPv6, network tutorial sessions from the 25th and to the morning of the 26th, security, and network communication convergence for local ISPs and the general assembly meeting from the afternoon of the 26th to identify the next wave of Internet business opportunities; (2) to the 28th. On the 26th, a press conference was also held in the speeches by executives in major international organizations or Howard Plaza. It was hosted by Tien-Lai Deng, Director General experts in the industry and academia, providing inspiring and of Department of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry innovative thoughts for the development of Taiwan’s network; of Transportation and Communications; Feipei Lai, TWNIC and (3) a platform for local network technology professionals and Chairman; Dr. Gaurab Upadhaya, APRICOT 2008 Chairman; and managers to have direct exchange with the international experts. Dr. Philip Smith, Chairman of APRICOT Management Committee, who explained to the media the goals of APRICOT 2008. The keynote speakers included Dr. Chung Laung Liu, an academician of the , and Wilfred Kwan, There were nearly 700 network technology experts and managers President and CTO of Asia Netcom. In addition, Fred Baker,

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Chairman of the Internet Society (ISOC), was also invited to talk about issues about ISOC and IETF. Mr. Akinori Maemura from Japan was invited to give a speech on the impending problem of IPv4 address depletion. Hong-reng Luo, an engineer from Chunghwa Telecom, gave a speech on the current applications of 戊子年 IPv6 in Taiwan. Randy Bush and David Conrad also talked about

夏 issues about IPv6 development. These speeches and discussions presented the participants great opportunities to learn more about the latest network developments in both Taiwan and other countries.

TWNIC had the honor to hold APRICOT in 2003 and again in 2008. Both were well attended by experts from the network- related industries at home and from abroad. To know more about APRICOT 2008, please visit www.apricot2008.net.

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International Cooperation

TWNIC Assists ICANN in IDN TLD Application Evaluation

ICANN has been coordinating a test of IDN top-level domain and laboratory programs. TWNIC and JPRS also reached a names (IDN TLD) in the Root Server and launching its ICANN consensus on a joint IDN TLD Application Evaluation in Taiwan, IDNwiki IDN TLD test program since last October. The Mainland China, Japan, and South Korea in line with the ICANN name example.test is entirely represented by eleven new IDN TLD evaluation test. As for e-mail internationalization, TWNIC internationalized domains on this test. Users, for example, can and JPRS agreed to develop a simulation system jointly and type http://example.test in 11 languages, such as http://例子.測 conduct interoperability tests together with IETF. 試, to experience the future environment for IDN TLD. For more information, please visit the website of ICANN IDNwiki at http:// After the meeting on February 2nd, TWNIC and JPRS convened idn.icann.org. a meeting with other NICs during the APRICOT 2008. They presented the results of their joint test in Taiwan, Mainland China, TWNIC has continuously participated in the IDN TLD work for Japan and South Korea and discussed with each other. The years. Currently, it is also assisting ICANN by maintaining and discussion results were compiled to produce a report draft for managing the traditional Chinese version website of IDNwiki further review and discussion in the 71st IETF Meeting. The final (http://繁體中文.idn.icann.org) and promoting related information evaluation report was completed and released in early April. in Taiwan. The tenical team of TWNIC is known for their years of IDN TLD experiences and efforts. On February 2nd, JPRS sent a The final IDN TLD Evaluation Report was produced jointly by delegation to visit TWNIC and share experiences on IDN TLD. TWNIC, CNNIC, JPRS, and NIDA, and published mainly through the IDN Committee of APTLD and moderators of ICANN IDNwiki In the meeting, both discussed enthusiastically about IDN of each 11 languages. To download the report, please visit http:// TLD policies, technologies, internationalized e-mail standards, www.twnic.net.tw or http://www.twnic.net.tw/NEWS/1295.txt

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Survey

TWNIC 2008 Q1 Taiwan Internet Connection Bandwidth Survey

According to the results of “Taiwan Internet Connection both ISPs and request a confirmation. Therefore, the connection Bandwidth Survey” from TWNIC, up to the end of March 2008, bandwidth data in the survey were all confirmed as accurate by the total bandwidth of international connections in Taiwan has the providing ISPs. reached 202,172 Mbps (see Table 1), showing an increase of 15,729 Mbps from Q4 of 2007 with an increase rate of 8.44%. For more detailed information about the survey findings, please In addition, the major foreign countries, to which Taiwan has visit the “Connection Bandwidth Registration and Search Internet connections, remain the same while the domestic and System” at http://map.twnic.net.tw. international connection bandwidth both show a stable growth. TWNIC announces its Internet-related survey findings and Figure 1. Quarterly Growth of Taiwan’s International statistics quarterly. Its Taiwan Internet Connection Bandwidth Network Connection Bandwidth (unit: Mbps) Survey provides the most up-to-date and detailed information Note: This figure was made in April 2008

about Taiwan’s Internet connections with the other countries and Total International Connection Bandwidth its domestic connections among local ISPs. Growth from Last Quarter Growth Rate 250000 Connected Countries and Regions

By the end of March 2008, among the 19 countries, to which 200000 202172 Taiwan has Internet connected, the US has the largest connection 176,195 181,006 186,443 147,725 149,881 159,601 bandwidth with Taiwan (87,168 Mbps), followed by Japan 150000 (46,341 Mpbs), Hong Kong (41,364 Mbps), Mainland China (18,804 Mbps), Singapore (2,303 Mbps), the UK (2,100 Mpbs), 100000

South Korea (1,766 Mpbs), and other countries (see Table 1). 18.70% 50000 Generally speaking, except for the US, the Netherlands, the UK, 23,274 and Germany, Taiwan has Internet connections mainly with the 1.46% 6.49% 10.40% 2,156 9,729 16,594 2.73% 8.44% 0 3.00% countries in Asia-Pacific region. 4,811 5,437 15,729 2006.09 2006.12 2007.03 2007.06 2007.09 Domestic and International Connection Bandwidth 2007.12 2008.03 The international connection bandwidth of HiNet, TWGATE Table 1. Statistics of Taiwan’s International and TFN respectively reaches 84,179 Mbps, 17,522 Mbps and Connection Bandwidth (Unit: Mbps) 15,778 Mbps. They are the top three local ISPs with the largest Updated in April 2008 international connection bandwidth in Taiwan.

Growth Rate Connected No. June-07 Sep-07 Dec-07 Mar-08 Ratio from Last Countries In the domestic connections among the ISPs in Taiwan, TANet, Quarter HiNet, TFN, EBIX, Seednet, TWIX, Giga, TWAREN, ASNet, and 1 US 75061 75216 77216 87168 43.12% 12.89% APOL, each has a bandwidth of more than 30 Gbps. 2 Japan 44707 43219 43841 46341 22.92% 5.70% 3 Hong Kong 30409 33653 34997 41364 20.46% 18.19%

4 Mainland China 15071 17559 17559 18804 9.30% 7.09% The survey was conducted by sending e-mail to the contact 5 Netherlands 1625 2036 2147 2303 1.14% 7.24% persons from 91 ISPs, who registered in TWNIC’s “Connection 6 Singapore 1100 1100 2100 2100 1.04% 0.00% http://map.twnic. Bandwidth Registration and Search System” ( 7 South Korea 1455 1455 1610 1766 0.87% 9.66%

net.tw), and requesting them to update their connection data 8 UK 356 356 511 778 0.38% 52.08%

in the system during the survey period. The survey started on 9 Malaysia 5599 5599 5599 622 0.31% -88.89% April 1, 2008 and ended on April 10, 2008. 58 ISPs uploaded 10 356 356 356 356 0.18% 0.00% their connection bandwidth data, accounting for about 64% of 11 Philippines 160 160 164 164 0.08% 0.00% the surveyed ISPs. (The other ISPs just used the data of last 12 Germany 89 89 89 156 0.08% 73.82% 13 Thailand 89 89 89 89 0.04% 0.00% quarter; hence, there was no change in their data.) There are 14 Australia 47 47 47 47 0.02% 0.00% 91 ISPs in this bandwidth survey. To ensure the accuracy of the 15 India 45 45 45 45 0.02% 0.00%

connection bandwidth data, the system was equipped with a 16 New Zealand 0 0 45 45 0.02% 0.00%

double-checking mechanism. When the data of any two ISPs 17 Vietnam 10 10 10 10 0.01% 0.00% did not correspond with their actual connection, or one of them 18 Saudi Arabia 10 10 10 10 0.01% 0.00% failed to update its data, the system would automatically e-mail 19 Indonesia 6 6 6 6 0.00% 0.00% the conflicting part of connection data to the contact persons of Total 176195 181006 186443 202172 100.00% 8.44%

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.tw Domain Name Registration

網路.tw 戊子年 組織.tw 1,302 / 0.34%

5,731 / 1.50% 夏 com.tw 商業.tw 151,313 / 39.49% 106,069 / 27.68%

org.tw 10,419 / 2.72%

net.tw 1,937 / 0.51%

IDN.tw idv.tw 30,544 / 7.97% 20,019 / 5.22%

game.tw 264 / 0.07% ASCII.tw club.tw 52,428 / 13.68% edu.tw ebiz.tw 514 / 0.13% 470 / 0.12% gov.tw 162 / 0.04% 1,998 / 0.52% Total: 383,170 as of May 2008

.tw Domain Name Statistics

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95000 .org .net 90000 .gov .edu 85000 .com

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Publication

戊子年

2007 TWNIC Annual Report Published 夏 different groups. In 2007, we kept emphasizing our focus on the promotion of Chinese domain names registration, and personalized domain name services, IPv6 technology and applications. For international Internet communities, we actively joined the testing of IDN launched by ICANN in October 2007.

We keep our footsteps in the 2007 Annual Report and the contents of the report include:

•• Chairman’s Words •• Overview in 2007 •• International Participation 2007 TWNIC Annual Report was published at the end •• Activities of March 2008, TWNIC continued to play its role as a •• Development & Information leader in Taiwan’s Internet community to provide the •• Outsourcing Projects/Publications best services, to manage the Internet resources, and •• Milestones in 2007 to coordinate the Internet-related cooperation among

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Space limited. Training Early registration is highly recommended.

Network Security Courses

The training courses in this quarter are different in Forensics and Analysis; UNIX/Linux Security; the Basis of offering more sessions so that more interested users or Information Security Management System and Wireless professionals can participate and learn more about the Network Security. latest trends and technologies of network security. Experts locally and abroad were specially invited to lecture in the For more information about each session of the training training courses and share their experiences and opinions courses, please visit http://www.twnic.net.tw or http://dns- on network security applications and future trends. The security.twnic.net.tw/SEC97/. courses include such as, Anti-spam; Malicoius Program

TWNIC’s Page Parking e-Service Courses

The training courses are completely free, teaching name for a website. Participants will learn step-by-step participants to build websites for individual or enterprise instructions of how to build their own websites and hand- users right in class. In addition, the participants will have a on practices without having to learn any complicated 14-day trial of free domain names. Each session is open programming language or professional skills. TWNIC’s to 30 participants and each participant is entitled to one Page Parking e-Service provides on-stop services that free domain name trial. meet the needs of domain name registration, website design, and DNS hosting of individual and SMEs, helping The courses are rich in content, introducing everything them build websites for themselves and their businesses. from the origin of the Internet, domain name attributes For additional information about the training courses, and categories, and skills of deciding a good domain please visit http://dnclass.tw.

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