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Candidate Profile: Takashi Arano

Senior Managing Director, CTO, Intec NetCore, Inc.

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. He has joined Intec NetCore since June, 2002.

He has contributed to the Internet community in various ways.

<Address Policy area>
ICANN ASO Address Council (1999-)
Chair of APNIC Address Policy SIG (2000-)
Board member of JPNIC(2002-), etc.

He has played a key role in address policy area in Asia Pacific in a process of forming true bottom-up policy development scheme. Recently, he devoted himself to making global consensus on the new IPv6 address policy which he originally proposed. He contributed an article regarding this to "ISOC Member Briefing".

<IPv6 Promotion>
Board member of the IPv6 Forum (2001-)
Program Chair of the first Global IPv6 Summit in Asia Pacific(2003)
Chair of IPv6 Deployment Committee of Internet Association Japan(2000-)
co-Chair of International Strategic group of IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan(2001-)
Chair of Steering Group of Global IPv6 Summit in Japan (2000-)
Chair of Editorial committee of the IPv6 Magazine of Impress, Ltd.(2001-)
Some Japanese governmental committee members, etc.

He has spent a lot of time for promoting IPv6 domestically and globally. Giving speeches in Global IPv6 Summits in many countries, he has introduced Japanese experiences and enlightened people towards IPv6.

<Other area>
Regarding the Y2K problem, he took the lead for preparing the year 2000 as the chair of Y2K Coordination Center Japan under Internet Association of Japan. It was coordinated with other Y2K organizations globally.

- A statement of your interests, your concerns about the Internet
Society, your goals as a Trustee and your motivation to serve as a Trustee.

I believe that IPv6 will be a future infrastructure on which various applications will run with not only PCs/PDAs but also many other equipments (home appliances, automobiles, buildings, office equipments, etc.) . A point is that this next generation infrastructure must be a "fusion of everything".

To transit to this infrastructure, besides some technical breakthrough, we the Internet industry must collaborate with other industries, and make various consensus among them as well as inside ourselves.

However, transition will be difficult. One of the most important things to consider then is how technologies can make people happy. We should discuss both technical and societal issues and find out a good balance between them.

I believe ISOC should be the right place to discuss, act, and review these issues and this is why I would like to contribute to it.

Additional information: http://www.apnic.net/meetings/14/ac/nominees/arano.html