“We aim to complete the migration to IPv6 in five years. However, it’s going to be difficult as the government has yet to impose strict regulations on it. […] With certain regulations, anyone who refuses to follow the rules can be punished,” Indonesian Internet Providers Association (APJII) chairman Jamalul Izza said in Jakarta on Monday evening.

IPv6 is the latest version of Internet Protocol, providing an identification and location system for computers linked to a network, as well as the route traffic.

The new Internet Protocol provides more than 340 undecillion addresses for global internet users to replace the current 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses, which has been distributed across the world and is reportedly running out of space.

However, Benyamin Sura, the telecommunication director at the Communications and Information Ministry, said many operators were still reluctant to migrate to IPv6, indicating a lack of public awareness about the issue.

“The infrastructure for IPv6 is already set, but the problem lies on the reluctance [of the operators],” Benyamin said, adding that the ministry formed the Indonesia IPv6 Task Force in 2008 to formulate a road map for migration from IPv4 to IPv6. (vps/ags)

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