Professor Hiroshi Esaki IPv6 Promotion
Council – Japan
Hiroshi Esaki, Ph.D, is
Professor at the University of Tokyo, Executive Director for
Japan IPv6 Promotion Council, BoT(Board of Trustees) of ISOC,
Board member for WIDE project and Vice President of JPNIC
(Japan Network Information Center). He received B.E.
and M.E. degrees from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in
1985 and 1987 respectively, and a Ph.D from the University
of Tokyo in 1998. From 1990 to 1991, he has been at the
Applied Research Laboratory of Bellcore Inc., New Jersey
(USA) as a residential researcher. From 1994 to 1996, he was
at CTR (the Center for Telecommunication Research) of
Columbia University in New York (USA).
During his stay at Columbia
University he proposed the CSR architecture that is the
origin of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) to the IETF
and to the ATM Forum. From 1996 to 1998, he has conducted
the CSR project in Toshiba as a chief architect. From 1998,
he has served as a professor at the University of Tokyo and
as a board member of the WIDE Project (www.wide.ad.jp).
From 1997, he has been involved
in IPv6 research and development at the WIDE project. He is
co-founder of a series of IPv6 special projects in the WIDE
project, i.e. KAME project - IPv6 protocol stack for BSD
UNIX; TAHI project - IPv6 test and evaluation specification
and tools; USAGI project - IPv6 protocol stack for Linux.
Regarding research/development/deployment for IPv6, he has
been working closely with Professor Jun Murai, who is a
political and technical advisor for the Japanese cabinet. He
is an executive director of the IPv6 Promotion Council,
which is a cross-ministry and cross-industry council to
promote IPv6 technology.
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