Migration to Next Generation Internet: A survey of enterprises 115 Migration to Next Generation Internet: A Survey of Enterprises Wen-Lung Shiau, Han-Chieh Chao * , Ping-Yu Hsu Department of Business Administration National Central University Chung-Li, Taiwan * Department of Electrical Engineering National Dong Hwa University Hualien, Taiwan mac@ms13.url.com.tw, hcc@mail.ndhu.edu.tw, pyhsu@mgt.ncu.edu.tw Abstract The current Internet has been developed and used successfully in our life including daily work, entertainment, education…and so on. Even though it is so popular, it faces the problems of IP address shortage, security, and the lack of guarantees of quality of service. Scientists and Engineers developed Next Generation Internet (NGI) protocol (IPv6) in 1995. It offers plenty of IP address, more efficient, betters security and quality of services. There are so many counties applied IPv6 addresses such as US 67, Japan 60, German 50, and Taiwan 12 units of IPv6 addresses in Nov. 2003. There are few enterprises used NGI today. In this paper, we investigate the enterprises interested in NGI. The results show the enterprises concern the contents of NGI most, then the more IP address and security. One surprised finding is that Banking and Insurance Industrial do not care about these issues. So, we should provide more information to Banking and Insurance Industrial. Reasons to choose Internet Service Providers are service, then the speed and price. The cost is not a most important factor for enterprises to choose Internet Service Provider. They care service and speed more than others. Moreover, the enterprises prefer more speed, lower cost, more security, multiple IP addresses, more contents, better video, and easier to use. Therefore, we should provide those benefits as soon as possible in order to migrate to NGI. Keywords: Internet, IPv4, IPv6, Next Generation Internet (NGI). 1 Introduction Today’s global Internet funded by ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1969 is one of the best-known accounts of the Internet’s origins [12]. Academics and researchers began to use the next of ARPA called ARPANET. Later, the National Science Foundation (NSF) takes over much of the TCP/IP technology from ARPANET and created a larger network (NSFNET) to accommodate greater traffic in 1986. Internet traffic grew explosively through 1988 when it began to grow approximately double size each year. A lot of universities faculties, staffs and students used the Internet. General users of the Internet soared in 1993 when the National Center for Supercomputer Application (NCSA) created Mosaic, a browser used to browse the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) documents. Mosaic’s easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) attracted millions of users downloaded it during its first year of release. Later, the other browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer bring more and more Internet users. In fact, the Internet has come into lots of people’s daily life. The current Internet was developed in the early 1970s. It was hard for developer to image that their development was used for more than 30 years. Even though current Internet can be said very successful, the weakness of IPv4 is a crack in our crucial network foundation [8]. The current Internet faces the problems about shortage of IP address, lack of quality of service and insecurity. These issues force the transition from current Internet to Next Generation Internet. The Internet Engineering Talk Force (IETF) has intended IPv6 since 1991 [14]. The standard of IPv6 was born in 1995. Since 1996, an IETF free test bed – 6Bone for checking IPv6 announced and would phase itself out by 2005 [11]. From 6Bone, we got lots of operational experiences of Next Generation Internet and transferred these experiences to real Next Generation Internet. Until 2003, the Next Generation Internet has connected to more than 50 countries world widely [20][22]. There are so many countries applied IPv6 addresses such as US 67, Japan 60, German 50, and Taiwan 12 units of IPv6 addresses. But there are few enterprises used NGI today. In this paper, we investigate the enterprises interested in NGI and find that the enterprises concern the contents of NGI most. One surprised finding is that Banking and Insurance Industrial do not care about these issues. Moreover, the enterprises prefer more speed, low cost, more security, multiple IP addresses, more contents, better video, and easy to use. Therefore, we should provide those benefits as soon as possible in order to facilitate the