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Preface
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and John Jason Brzozowski, North American IPv6 Task Force and Chair of the Mid-
Atlantic IPv6 Task Force, contributed great input into Chapters 1 and 9. Thanks to
David B. Green from SRI International for the permission to quote his Enterprise
Security Model presentation in Chapter 5 and for reviewing different parts of the
book. Thanks to Merike Kaeo, Chief Network Security Architect at Double Shot
Security, for all her inputs and comments to Chapter 5. And thanks to Chris Engdahl
from Microsoft for his review of Chapter 10. Thanks to Jimmy Ott from Sunny Con-
nection for researching and writing all updates for Chapter 12. David Malone, author
of the companion book IPv6 Network Administration, reviewed the whole book—
thank you, David, for your great and clarifying comments. A great thank you goes
out to all the people who were ready to share their experience with us and have pro-
vided case studies. They are Paolo Vieira from the University of Porto, Pierre David
from the University of Strasbourg, Cody Christman from NTT Communications,
and Flavio Curti and Ueli Heuer from Cyberlink AG in Zurich. Wolfgang Fritsche
from IABG Germany and Karim El-Malki from Ericsson AB in Stockholm reviewed
and provided input on Chapter 11 about Mobility. Thanks to the people at Check-
point for providing information and connections, especially Patrik Honegger and
Yoni Appel; and thanks also to Jean-Marc Uzé at Juniper for his information and
connections. I also want to thank all the people and developers in the international
working groups. Without their visionary power, enthusiasm, and tireless work, we
would not have IPv6 ready.
A special thank you goes to Jim Sumser, Mike Loukides, and Tatiana Apandi at
O’Reilly. Jim Sumser guided me through the whole writing process of the first edi-
tion with a lot of enthusiasm, patience, and experience. Thank you, Jim, for being
there, and thank you for never hassling me when I was already struggling. You made
a difference! Mike and Tatiana, with whom I worked on the second edition, have
also been very supportive throughout the whole process. I also want to thank all the
other folks at O’Reilly who contributed to this book, especially Tim O’Reilly for
making it possible in the first place.
Another very special thank you goes to Hanspeter Bütler, who was my teacher back
in school, for teaching me the beauty of the ancient Greek language. His insightful
and sensitive way of guiding me into understanding and feeling the richness of old
languages laid the foundation for my understanding of language in general, of differ-
ent cultures and how the differences in viewing the world are expressed in language.
I can probably make him partially responsible for my becoming an author. Language
is made to communicate, and the more precisely we use our language, the better we
can understand and be understood. Without communication, there can be no under-
standing. On a different level, TCP/IP is the protocol that enables communication in
the network and therefore creates the foundation for Internet communication. And
the Internet creates the physical foundation for global communication. It offers a
great opportunity to communicate, share, and understand globally across all cul-
tures. That is how we should be using it.