2008 Global IPv6 Summit in Taiwan and • Internet Trend Seminar

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Network Security Training Courses 10

TWNIC's Page Parking e-Service Courses 10

IPv6 Theory and Applications Courses 10

2008 TWNIC Cares for Remote Areas and Spreads Love with Digital Products 06

2008 Wireless Internet Use Survey in Taiwan 05

The 10th IP Open Policy Meeting 06

.tw Domain Name Contests 03

Comprehensive .tw Domain Name Services 04

Comprehensive IPv6 Services 04

TWNIC Announces the Results of 2008 Q2 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

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It is our pleasure that the Global IPv6 Summit in Taiwan and Internet Trend Seminar was enlarged

to invite several domestic and foreign experts from the industry, the government and the

academia to discuss the future development of the Internet.

In the era when the whole world is facing a crisis of exhausted IPv4 addresses and an active

transition to IPv6, TWNIC hopes to take this summit as a platform to share and exchange current

implementation experience from each country through the aspects of technical R & D, policy

establishment and industrial development, as well as discuss development trends of the next-

generation Internet. We also hope to to achieve the ideal of “everyone has an IP and everything is

connected to the Internet” in the future.

Thanks again to our speakers to share their observations on development trends of the Internet,

unique analysis and views, as well as to all of the participants for joining this event. It is because

of you that this grand event was successful.

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For Taiwan’s network technology communities, the most important event this year was 2008 Global IPv6 Summit in Taiwan and Internet Trend Seminar, which was held on September 1st and 2nd, 2008. The event was focused on future trends of the Internet. Professionals and experts were invited to discuss the future development of the Internet as well as the impact and possible major changes of the Internet creativity which will be brought to human life. Attendants included Jin-Fu Chang, the Minister of State, Executive Yuan, Tien-Lai Teng, the Director General, Department of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Transportation & Communications, Lee-Feng Chien, the Director of Google Taiwan R&D Center, Professor Hiroshi Esaki from University of Tokyo and the Vice President of JPNIC, Japan and so on.

In the event’s opening ceremony, TWNIC signed a memorandum of understanding with JPNIC and IPv6 Promotion Council to promote and develop the technical structure, transformation mechanism, wireless Internet solution and technical applications (including mobile communications, remote care, environmental monitoring and security monitoring systems) of IPv6. Three parties will also jointly promote the importance of IPv6 due to the exhaustion of global IPv4 addresses. Dr. Latif Ladid, the President of the IPv6 Forum, made a speech on actual business examples for IPv6 applications, which was followed by the topics of IPv6 Innovative Applications, IPv6 Products and Market Trends and IPv6 Deployment.

2008 Global IPv6 Summit in Taiwan and Internet Trend Seminar

On September 2nd, Lee-Feng Chien, the Director of Google Taiwan R&D Center, was specially invited to present on ‘Cloud, Connectivity and Mobile: Some Trends in Internet Application Development.’ Some Internet celebrities and bloggers were also invited to talk about the Internet creativity and trends as well as sharing their observations on the development of the Internet and their unique analyses and opinions on the Internet creativity to lead the exploration of this creative Internet era.

For more information on this event, please visit http://www.seminar2008.twnic.tw .

Dr. Hiroshi Esaki and Dr. Feipei Lai (From left to right)

Dr. Lee-Feng Chien Dr. Latif Ladid

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.tw Domain Name Contests

The 7th Netking .tw Website Design Contest

The local Taiwanese delicacies are the theme

of the 7th Netking website contest. Fine food

restaurant owners or gourmets are welcome

to participate in this contest and present well-

designed webpage of any local Taiwan delicacy.

This contest hopes to include delicacies and

local products from all over Taiwan, as well

as to increase business opportunities through

recommendation, introduction and description of

the webpage.

For more information on this contest, please visit

http://www.netking.tw or http://新人王.tw .

The Campus Talent PK Contest

The Campus Talent PK Contest is a good chance for

Internet users to reveal on their unique genius. It includes

two topics “The Campus KUSO Champion” and “The

Best Resume Champion.” Anyone who owns a .tw domain

name and uses one of the designated Page Parking

The Campus KUSO Contest was due by October 15. Students were

encouraged to present their everyday life stories and photos with “The

Campus KUSO Template” provided by TWNIC.

The Best Resume Contest is from October 1 to November 15. In addition

to your professional knowledge and skills from school, do you also have

associations and part-time work experience? Use the Page Parking

e-Service “Fresh Graduates Template” provided by TWNIC to record your

experience anytime, from which you can not only prepare for your future

career, but also show off your rich experience.

e-Service templates can participate in this contest. Users

will be able to record their everyday life on campus

and their abundant educational background and past

experience.

For more information on this contest, please visit

http://pkking.tw or http://校園風雲.tw .

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Comprehensive .tw Domain Name

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Comprehensive IPv6 Services

Promotion for Chinese and English Domain Name

Bundle Registration

To help Small and Medium Enterprise in Taiwan register

their unique domain names, TWNIC has launched its

“Promotional Registration for Chinese and English Domain

Name” project. For less than NT$4 a day, SME owners

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, SME owners 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 or more combo registration of “com.tw and 中文.tw”

or “ascii.tw and 中文.tw” domain names. At a bargain

price, SME owners can have both Chinese and English

domain names to enable around-the-clock marketing and

non-stop business prosperity.

For more information about this special discount, please

visit http://52168.tw or http://我要一路發.tw .

Mydn .tw Gatherings

TWNIC has worked with its registrars to hold nearly 20

free mydn.tw gatherings from August to December, 2008.

These courses will teach participants how to use their

existing Internet tools to do more business with less

money and less effort. They will also teach enterprises

how to differentiate themselves from other firm’s websites

yet still cost-effectively establish their exclusive Internet

doorplates, implement their exclusive enterprise websites,

as well as leveraging Internet resources to do marketing

online. These courses will help small businesses achieve

their dream of being digital enterprises, attracting more

customers and, vastly increasing market size and sales

potential.

For more information, please visit http://52168.tw or

http://我要一路發.tw .

Campus Lecture Courses Coming Up Soon

The summer courses on “Internet Business Establishment

TWNIC IPv6 Meteorological Measurement System

TWNIC is currently working with relevant organizations to install IPv6 network weather sensors and implement demonstration points. These sensors can transmit weather data in real time through IPv6/IPv4 networks. They combine IPv6 networks’ features of real-time transmission and very large addresses to achieve the results of object connection popularization and actual living applications.

TWNIC IPv6 meteorological measurement system has several weather sensing components. It can measure several weather data, including temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind direction, wind speed and rain precipitation at the same time, and transmit the data to the weather system website through IPv6/IPv4 networks. This weather data can then be viewed online in real time.Currently, the implementation has been completed in Sitou Nature Education Area and Meifeng farm, Nantou County.

For more information, please visit http://showroom.twnic.

net.tw/weather.php through IPv6/IPv4 networks to view real-time weather information directly at each of the demonstration points.

The following photo shows the installation of the IPv6 network weather sensor in Sitou Nature Education Area.

Wins in Creativity” held by TWNIC on 7/11, 8/15 and 8/21

in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung have been brought to

a successful close and received excellent feedback from

many friends. The amount of people who entered for these

3 lectures far exceeded 500, demonstrating continued

interested in the issue of Internet business establishment

and operation.

TWNIC will also continue to hold 12 special-topic lecture

courses on campuses from October to December.

For more information, please visit http://showking.tw or

http://秀自己.tw .

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2008 Wireless Internet Use Survey in Taiwan

According to the survey report of 2008

“Taiwanese Wireless Internet Use”, there

are over 36% of people who have used

the Internet have also used wireless

connection in the recent half year. For

Internet groups, there are over 70% of

online users who have also used wireless

connection in the recent half year. For the

equipment used by Taiwanese people

for wireless connection to the Internet,

“notebook computers or PDAs” are in the

highest percentage. The top 3 functions

used most often with the wireless Internet

are to “search for information”, “browse

information, web pages” and “receive/

send emails”. It was discovered from

the analysis of people’s needs for the 16

Internet services and improvement of their

life that all of the 16 Internet services have

improved their life.

To f u r t h e r o b t a i n t h i s s u r v e y

re p o r t , y o u a re w e l c o m e t o v i s i t

http://stat.twnic.net.tw to download .

Guides for “Exhibit ion of Future IPv6 Life

Applications” are Provided

There were 7 trainees who passed the training courses

and served visitors for the “Exhibition of Future IPv6

Life Applications” held at National Taiwan Science

Education Center in July. The training courses included

lectures and onsite demonstrations. There were also

professional lecturers invited to teach basic IPv6 theories,

applications and professional guiding techniques. The

courses were intended to display the next generation of

Internet applications as well as the future IPv6 life and

real-life applications, including food, medicine, living,

transportation, education and amusement through the

new generation of university and college students.

Anyone interested is welcome to join us to experience

the future IPv6 life. For further information, please visit

TWNIC’s website.

Dr. Feipei Lai, Mr. Wen-Hsin Liang and Dr. TeHsin Liang (From left to right)

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The 10th TWNIC IP Open Policy Meeting was held in

Nation Taiwan University Hospital International Convention

Center on 1st and 2nd July and is a platform to improve

the domestic Internet industry’s understandings of

“relevant policies and establishment procedures of

IP addresses” as well as increase ISPs’ exchange of

To echo with the charity program by the Ministry of

Education, TWNIC donated EeePCs to 20 Digital

Opportunity Centers, which have outstanding results in

their feature development, as a result the residents from

the remote areas have opportunities to get in touch with

the latest digital products, which further reduce the digital

divide between the urban and rural areas.

Feipei Lai, the Chairman of TWNIC, said, “TWNIC has

long been promoting to reduce the digital divide of remote

areas and challenged people. In the past 7 years, we

have continued to care for the society with charity and

public welfare activities. This time, we hope to be able to

The 10th IP Open Policy Meeting

experience. TWNIC IP Open Policy Meeting is targeted at

cohering opinions from the ISPs in the Taiwan.

The topics of Computing and Communication and the

Current Status for the WiMax Development in Taiwan

were discussed and Those in attendance gave excellent

reviews. In this meeting, groups were created to discuss

two main topics – Policy SIG and TWNOG, which included

address grants, management policies and network

maintenance. On July 2nd , thorough educational training

courses were provided for the latest introduction of IPv6.

In this meeting, the interaction between the attendees

and the speakers was involved and enthusiastic,

demonstrating that TWNIC IP Open Policy Meeting is,

much like the internet itself, open, free-wheeling exciting,

and giving voce to everyone. This meeting reflects how the

ISP industry in Taiwan sees IP policies and management,

provides appropriate suggestions, as well as contributes

to the global Internet society by participating in APNIC to

have an impact on the policy amendment of IP addresses

in the Asia Pacific region.

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show examples by donating new digital products for the

residents in the remote areas to be in touch with more

knowledge and information. We also hope to shorten

the divide between the urban and the rural areas and

care for every corner of Taiwan using a more diversified

approach.”

TWNIC is striving for a balance of domestic Internet

resource distribution and continuing to help forge

a superior Internet environment using a diversified

approach. TWNIC will continue to care for Taiwan, and

invite everyone to spread the love from .tw.

Tien-Lai Teng, the Director General, Department of Posts and Telecommunicat ions, Ministry of Transportat ion & Communications.

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No. Connected Countries Sep-07 Dec-07 Mar-08 June-08 Ratio Growth Rate from

Last Quarter

1 US 75216 77216 87168 99534 44.74% 14.19%

2 Japan 43219 43841 46341 47585 21.39% 2.68%

3 Hong Kong 33653 34997 41364 43208 19.42% 4.46%

4 Mainland China 17559 17559 18804 21798 9.80% 15.92%

5 South Korea 1455 1610 1766 2699 1.21% 52.85%

6 Singapore 2036 2147 2303 2458 1.10% 6.75%

7 UK 1100 2100 2100 2100 0.94% 0.00%

8 Malaysia 356 511 778 1400 0.63% 80.00%

9 Netherlands 5599 5599 622 622 0.28% 0.00%

10 Macao 356 356 356 356 0.16% 0.00%

11 Philippines 160 164 164 164 0.07% 0.00%

12 Indonesia 6 6 6 162 0.07% 2531.25%

13 Thailand 89 89 156 156 0.07% 0.00%

14 Germany 89 89 89 89 0.04% 0.00%

15 Australia 47 47 47 47 0.02% 0.00%

16 India 45 45 45 45 0.02% 0.00%

17 New Zealand 0 45 45 45 0.02% 0.00%

18 Vietnam 10 10 10 10 0.00% 0.00%

19 Saudi Arabia 10 10 10 10 0.00% 0.00%

Total 181006 186443 202172 222488 100.00% 10.05%

Table 1. Statistics of Taiwan’s International Connection Bandwidth (Unit: Mbps) Updated in July 2008

Figure 1. Quarterly Growth of Taiwan’s International Network Connection Bandwidth (unit: Mbps) Note: This figure was made in July 2008

According to the results of “Taiwan Internet Connection

Bandwidth Survey” by TWNIC, through the end of July 2008

the total bandwidth of international connections in Taiwan has

reached 222,488 Mbps (see Table 1), showing an increase of

20,316 Mbps from Q1 of 2008 with an increase rate of 10.05%.

In addition, the major foreign countries to which Taiwan has

Internet connections remain the same while the domestic and

international connection bandwidths both show a stable growth.

TWNIC regularly announces its Internet-related survey findings

and statistics each quarterly. Its Taiwan Internet Connection

Bandwidth Survey provides the most up-to-date and detailed

information about Taiwan’s Internet connections with other

countries and domestic connections among local ISPs.

Connected Countries and Regions

By the end of July 2008, among the 19 countries to which

Taiwan is Internet connected, the US has the largest connection

bandwidth with Taiwan (99,534 Mbps), followed by Japan (47,585

Mbps), Hong Kong (43,208 Mbps), Mainland China (21,798

Mbps), South Korea (2,699 Mbps), Singapore (2,458 Mbps), the

UK (2,100 Mbps), and other countries (see Table 1). Generally

speaking, except for America, the Netherlands, the UK, and

German, Taiwan has Internet connections mainly with countries

in the Asia-Pacific region.

Domestic and International Connection Bandwidth

The international connection bandwidth of HiNet, Seednet,

and TWGATE respectively reaches 96,154 Mbps, 18,621 Mbps

and 18,611 Mbps. They are the top three ISPs with the largest

international connection bandwidths in Taiwan.

In the domestic connections among the ISPs in Taiwan, TANet,

TFN, HiNet, Seednet, TWIX, Giga, TWAREN,EBIX, APOL and

ASNet, each has a bandwidth of more than 40 Gbps.

The survey was conducted by sending e-mails to the contact

persons of the 89 ISPs registered in TWNIC’s “Connection

Bandwidth Registration and Search System” (http://map.twnic.

net.tw) and requesting them to register their connection data

in the system during the survey period. The survey started on

July 1, 2008 and ended on July 10, 2008. 58 ISPs updated

their connection bandwidth data, accounting for about 65% of

the surveyed ISPs. (The other ISPs just used the data of last

quarter for there was no change in their data.) There are 89 ISPs

in this bandwidth survey. To ensure accuracy of the connection

bandwidth data, the system is equipped with a double-checking

mechanism. When the data of any two ISPs did not correspond

to their actual connection or one of them failed to register its

data, the system would automatically e-mail the conflicting part

of connection data to the contact persons of both ISPs and

request a confirmation. Therefore, the connection bandwidth

data in the survey was all confirmed as accurate by the providing

ISPs.

For more detailed information about the survey findings, please

visit the “Connection Bandwidth Registration and Search

System” at http://map.twnic.net.tw .

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edu.tw

ASCII.tw

IDN.tw

商業.tw

組織.tw

網路.tw

idv.tw

net.tw

org.tw

com.tw

Total: 397,040 as of Sep. 2008

154,320 / 38.87%

10,704 / 2.70%

1,937 / 0.49%

20,783 / 5.23%

269 / 0.07%

518 / 0.13%

167 / 0.04%2,026 / 0.51%

472 / 0.12%

56,618 / 14.26%

32,195 / 8.11%

109,716 / 27.63%

5,953 / 1.50%

1,362 / 0.34%

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Network Security Training Courses

TWNIC's Page Parking e-Service Courses

IPv6 Theory and Applications Courses

The feature of this year’s tra ining is to add the

courses of protection in network applications that are

comprehensively used at the present time, covering

topics such as Email SPAM, Wireless, Web Security (PHP),

UNIX/Linux Security and malicious programs. The aims

of the courses are to allow Internet users to understand

the importance of network security and detection and

protection approaches, as well as to enable more users

or professional network administrators to have more

opportunities to learn about new network security trends

and technologies. The courses have generally been

welcomed and expected by Internet users.

Since the .tw domain name classroom was opened in

April, the “Page Parking e-Service Training” courses have

greatly received favor and high opinions from participants.

Because there is limitation to the time and the number of

people, many Internet users have indicated their hope that

TWNIC will be able to increase classes and the number

of people allowed to attend them. Accordingly, we will

increase classes for the courses starting from July to

allow more users to have great opportunities to have their

exclusive domain names and easily set up their websites.

In the training courses, learners can actually operate on

the computers and easily practice website implementation

step by step. In addition, we have also provided two

weeks of free domain name trials to the participating

learners to allow them to first experience their exclusive

domain names and also the advantages and fun of the

exclusive Page Parking website.

For enrollment of the courses, please visit

http://dnclass.tw .

From July to mid October, TWNIC has held 9 Training

Courses of IPv6 Theory and Applications in the hope of

increasing Taiwanese people’s understanding of relevant

IPv6 technologies, as well as to introduce IPv6 and its

relevant applications.

The last training course will be on Friday, October 24. This

educational training course will still be conducted through

lessons given by the lecturers and actual operational

illustration with the latest technologies and information

of IPv6 network environment implementation provided

to increase Taiwanese people’s understanding of IPv6

technologies and abilities to implement IPv6 network

environments.

Please vist http://map.twnic.net.tw/ipv6_97/ for more

information.

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