Mr. Takashi Arano, IPv6 Promotion Council, Japan

  Takashi Arano received Master of Science from the University of Tokyo.

  Since 1996, he had lead NTT’s Internet department as a chief engineer.

  He designed an initial network of OCN, which is now one of the biggest Internet providers in Japan. He was also involved in a wide range of strategic planning from peering to M&A.
In August, 2001, he moved to Asia Global Crossing, Ltd as Regional Director of Service Development & Operations.

  He is now in charge of engineering and operations for advanced network services such as VPN, VoIP and IPv6.

  In the last five years, he has contributed to the Internet society in various ways, by taking positions of Vice Chair of ICANN ASO Address Council (1999-), Chair of APNIC Address Policy SIG (2000-), Chair of Y2KCC/JP, Internet Association of Japan (1999-2000), Vice Chair of JPNIC Steering Committee(1999-), JANOG meeting chairs(1996-), to name a few.

  Regarding IPv6, he is serving as Chair of IPv6 Deployment Committee of Internet Association Japan, Board member of The IPv6 Forum (2001-), Chair of Steering Group of Global IPv6 Summit in Japan (2000-), Editor-in-Chief of the IPv6 Journal, RIIS (2001-) and so forth.

  Recently, he proposed a new IPv6 address allocation and assignment policy to the Regional Internet Registries which is to replace the current provisional policy and is now on their decision process.