Jurnal Sistem Informasi (JSI), VOL. 1, NO. 2, Agustus 2009 Halaman 87-100 ISSN Print : 2085-1588 ISSN Online : 2355-4614 http://ejournal.unsri.ac.id/index.php/jsi/index Jurusan Sistem Informasi Fakultas Ilmu Komputer Universitas Sriwijaya Jl. Raya Palembang-Prabumulih Km.32 Indralaya Ogan Ilir 30662 Telp. (0711) 7072729; jsi.fasilkom.unsri@gmail.com 87 A COMPARISON OF ATTITUDES TO IPV6 IN THREE COUNTRIES Peter Dell 1 , Dedy Syamsuar 2, Chris Kwong 3 , Sébastien François 1 , Ken Choy 1 1 Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia 2 Centrelink, Canberra, Australia 3 Universitas Bina Darma, Palembang, Indonesia Abstrak Internet Protocol (IP), the underlying protocol upon which the Internet is based, has a number of serious flaws, including limited address space, security and performance limitations. Since the early 1990s a new version of IP (IPv6) has been developed in which these problems are addressed. Yet despite years of “hype”, adoption of IPv6 has been minimal or non-existent. Many efforts have been made to encourage IPv6 adoption around the world but none have been widely successful. The decision to adopt is influenced by the information available to the decision maker. This paper reports the results of studies of attitudes and perceptions to IPv6 in three countries and determines that the prevalent information about the standard in each country is often scarce and inaccurate. This contributes to reluctance to adopt IPv6 and further exacerbates the problem. The paper concludes with recommendations to improve available information so as to increase IPv6 acceptance and adoption. Key words: IPv6, Jaringan, Difusi Teknologi 1. INTRODUCTION IP (Internet Protocol) is the protocol that governs all communication on TCP/IP networks such as the Internet. Its development commenced in 1973 and was based on NCP (Network Control Protocol), the protocol in use on ARPANET at that time. TCP/IP became the official set of protocols for use on the Internet on 1983 and is today referred to as “IPv4”: the fourth version of IP 1 . Today the TCP/IP protocol suite includes hundreds, if not thousands, of protocols for specific purposes such as the transmission of email, files and web pages, instant messages and multimedia. All of the higher protocols in the TCP/IP family rely on IPv4 for basic communication across the Internet, and thus every transmission on the Internet, regardless of what it is, depends on the smooth functioning of IPv4. The researchers, scientists, and engineers responsible for the development of IPv4 could not have anticipated the extent to which the Internet would grow, and the applications for which it would eventually be used. Consequently, design decisions were made that, while appropriate and sensible for the time, are anachronistic and inappropriate today. 1 This seemingly curious choice to start at version 4 was made due to three previous versions that had been called TCP rather than IP.