The report in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a Japanese business daily, said that the countries aimed to take the lead in Internet technologies, with a broad move to adopt IPv6 beginning in 2005.
It named several Japanese firms that it said would participate in the IPv6 development: Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC Corp, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, Nippon Telegraph, Mitsubishi Research Institute and Internet Initiative Japan Inc. From Korea, the newspaper said that Samsung and Korea Telecom were expected to participate, along with Chinese firms such as China Telecommunications.
No Japanese government or corporate officials were available for comment on the report due to the New Year holidays, the Nihon Keizai added.
A spokesman from Japanese electronic giant Hitachi said that IPv6 had been discussed by the three governments at ministerial meetings, but said that he was not aware of any recent developments, and that Hitachi had no specific terms for Japanese-Chinese-Korean development.
IPv6 is seen as an answer to the upcoming shortage of IP addresses under the current IPv4 protocol. With vastly more IP addresses available under IPv6, the Nihon Keizai speculated there would be growth in the remote operation and management of even more Internet-enabled devices such as cars, smart tags and home appliances.
Already Japan's Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications has allocated US$18,643,000 in annual funding for a Japanese IPv6 network that will connect around 100 local governments, corporations and households. The Nihon Keizai report said that similar IPv6 networks would be built in Korea and China, and then connected to the Japanese IPv6 network to create an international IPv6 network with shared standards.
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