02 03

IANA announced on February 3rd, 2011 that IPv4 addresses

have been exhausted. Relevant Internet organizations,

businesses and more than 2 billion users around the

world have all started to face the transition from IPv4 to

IPv6. In the past years, Taiwan has already accumulated

great strength in its development of IPv6 and network-

related technologies.

In the “Meeting of IP Network Development Strategies”

convened in February 2011, TWNIC was suggested

to publish the “Policy Recommendation Report on IP

Network Development Strategies” based on the research

results of the next-generation network technology,

practical experience of the industry, and a variety of

technologies and solutions developed around the

world so that it can be used as a reference and the

overall strategic blueprint for governmental authorities,

industrial management.

The “Policy Recommendation Report on IP Network

Development Strategies” was finally published in June

2012 with participation from over 50 industrial, academic

and governmental researchers, experts and scholars. It

convened by experts and scholars from various areas,

followed by 8 brainstorming discussion meetings, 9 initial

review meetings of chapter units, and 3 editorial meetings.

Hopefully the strategies and action plans proposed in this

report can be referred to by governmental authorities and

industrial management to activate industrial upgrades,

accelerate the advancement of network upgrades, guide

the development of Internet-related industries in Taiwan

as well as advance innovative services of IP networks in

Taiwan under Digital Convergence, Internet of Things and

Smart Living.

TWNIC IP Open Policy Meeting has been playing as

a platform for increasing the understanding of both

domestic and foreign Internet industries about the

Internet technologies and enhancing exchanges of

experience among ISPs. This year experts in the IPv6 area

were invited to discuss major development and technical

issues. This meeting was held in NTNU on June 12th ~ 14th.

Rui-lung Liu, the Vice President of the Cloud Computing

Association in Taiwan, was invited to make a keynote

speech on “Opportunities and Challenges for the

Development of Cloud in Taiwan.” His excellent speech

aroused ardent responses from the audiences. The other

agendas of the day included “Items for Consideration

Regarding Upgrading Linux Application Services to IPv6”,

“the First Step of Comprehensive IPv6 Improvement

– Talks about Internet DMZ Design and Deployment”,

“Upgrades of Firewalls and IPv6 Information Security

Management”, “Planning for GSN IPv6 Services” and

“Suggestions for IPv6 Address Planning and Distribution”,

in which participants discussed issues and asked

questions enthusiastically.

Champika Wijayatunga, the Manager of APNIC, was

especially invited to Taiwan to conduct the IPv6 transition

training course during the second and the third days of

the meeting. The students responded earnestly after

the course. A real-time webcast was also provided

simultaneously to allow participants who could not

attend the meeting to be involved off-site. There were

about 380 participants in total attending this 3-day

meeting.

TWNIC's “Policy Recommendation Report on IP Network Development Strategies” Published

The 18th TWNIC IP Open Policy Meeting

Participants of TWNIC's OPM in NTNU

Policy Recommendation Report on IP Network Development Strategies

04 05

The Winners of “Chinese Domain Name Marketing Proposals” for the 21st Times Young Creative Awards Released

TWNIC

2012 TWNIC Information Security Training Course

“Times Young Creative Awards” hosted by China Times

Group are a creative contest awards given to university,

college, high school, and vocational school students. It

has always been a grand event that schools are concerned

about. To thoroughly promote .tw/. 台 灣 domain names

among students as well as to draw creativity from young

learners, TWNIC participated in this grand event for the

“Marketing Chinese Domain

Name” as one of the topics in the competition category of

“Marketing Proposal.”

There were a total of 75 marketing proposals competing

in the contest. After two months of fierce competition,

the three proposals from Ming Chuan University, Chinese

Culture University and Shu-Te University received the Young

Creative Award. Young people’s ideas and passions can be

learned through students’ perspectives and creation. All of the

In June, 2012, Jiri Prusa from CZNIC and Pavel Dvorak and

Nadezda Paclova from Czech Telecommunication Office

visited TWNIC to exchange the ideas and discuss the

issues about the operation and management of ccTLD

registry. The exhaustion of IPv4 and IPv6 promotion

are also the topic of the discussion. Currently, the IPv6

Upgrade Promotion Program is the main focus of the

Taiwan’s Government. According to the program, all the

networks of government sectors will be the target of

participating works have provided a lot of marketing creativity,

such as smart phone apps, Facebook applications, Flash

activities, comic strips, etc. The students’ zealous creativity and

abundant imagination are worthy of recognition.

The 21st “Times Young Creative Awards” was announced in

New Taipei City Hall on June 9th. For more information on

the winning proposals, please visit http://21styoung.times

awards.com/home/news.aspx.

To improve Taiwanese people’s recognition about

Information security, TWNIC's Department of Technology

has especially opened up several information security

TWNIC Participated The Times Young Creative Adwards

The Visitors with TWNIC Staff and Representatives from MOTC

TWNIC 2012 Hands-on Information Security Training Courses

In 2004, TWNIC formally implemented ISO 27001 (originally

BS 7799) and ISMS that conforms to international standards

for its two core services – the DNS (Domain Name System)

resolution service and the domain name (DN) registration

management service, and has become the first national

network information center (NIC) to receive the ISO27001

certification. In 2006, TWNIC implemented the ISO 9001

QMS for its overall operation and management. Through

effective system operation and process control, TWNIC

continues to improve and displays its ability to satisfy

customers.

To protect the security of TWNIC’s information assets

related to its core business, TWNIC has established a

system for information security management and quality

control and has been operating the ISO 27001 information

security management system (ISMS) and ISO 9001 quality

management system (QMS). In May this year, TWNIC

has completed a series of intensive audit procedures and

renewed ISO 27001/ISO 9001. This is a superior result

showing TWNIC’s long-term efforts in managing .tw/. 台 灣

domain name resolution service delivery and registration

management policies.

training courses, like DNSSEC, Investigation and Crisis

Management of Information Security Incidents,

Information Security Forensics and Digital Evidence

Collection, Wireless Network Attacks and Defense,

Penetration Testing, Basic Network Security Study –

Wargame. This year’s courses, which have been held

since April, have received massive and enthusiastic

responses. Currently, the courses for the second half of

2012 are open for registration. People who are interested

in network technologies or information security are

welcome to register. For more information on the courses

and registration, please visit http://dns-security.twnic.net.

tw/SEC101/index_1.php.

industry. The visitors from Czech were interested in the

IPv6 upgrade plan and had thorough discussion.

06 07

The Results of “Taiwan Broadband Internet Usage Survey” Released

The Results of “Taiwan Internet Connectivity Bandwidth Survey” Released

TWNIC has been continuing to conduct the “Survey of

Taiwan Broadband Internet Usage” since 2002, and has

extended its survey range to cover all of the administrative

regions of Taiwan, including 5 cities and 17 counties.

TWNIC held a press conference on July 9th to announce the

results of the survey. Up until May 27th, 2012, the population

of Internet users in Taiwan was about 17,530,000, of which

the Internet usage is up to 75.44% with 3.4% of growth

compared to that of 2011. The population of Internet users,

who were 12 years old or above, was 15,940,000, of which

the percentage was 77.25%. The number of broadband

Internet users was 15,300,000, which is 97.16% of the

Internet user population, revealing that broadband has

already been the major Internet connection method for the

Internet users in Taiwan.

According to the results of “Taiwan Internet Connectivity

Bandwidth Survey” from TWNIC, the total bandwidth for

external connection from Taiwan reached 649,193 Mbps up

to the end of June 2012, which has increased 31,396Mbps

compared to the last quarter with a 5.08% growth rate.

In which, Taiwan’s externally connected countries remain

the same; however, the amount of domestic and overseas

connection bandwidth shows stable growth.

For connected countries/regions, Taiwan is connected

to 18 of them up to the end of June 2012. For overseas

connection bandwidth, the US is the major country of

Internet connection with Taiwan (350,914 Mbps), followed

by Hong Kong (99,898Mbps), Japan (87,764Mbps), China

(71,156Mbps), Singapore (15,085 Mbps), Korea (13,753Mbps)

Being influenced by the prevalence of portable appliances

in the recent years and various service programs provided

by telecommunication vendors, wireless Internet and

mobile Internet have become the mainstream of Internet

connection. This phenomenon has also reflected in this

year’

and Malaysia (6,210 Mbps). Overseas Internet connection

bandwidth for HiNet, TWGATE and NCIC is 361,515Mbps,

81,699 Mbps and 69,218Mbps respectively, making them

the top 3 organizations of external connection bandwidth

in Taiwan. For interconnection bandwidth of domestic

ISPs, TWIX, HiNet, TFN, CNS-KBT, NCIC, Ke-ing, TANet, EBIX,

TAIWANMOBILE and TWAREN are the top 10 ISPs.

More detailed information of this survey can be found in

“Internet Connectivity Bandwidth Logon Search System” at

http://map.twnic.net.tw.

Quarterly Growth Chart of Taiwan's International Internet Connectivity Bandwidth

2009.09 2009.12 2010.03 2010.06 2010.09 2010.12 2011.03 2011.06 2011.09 2011.12 2012.03 2011.06

Number of International connectivity Bandwidths (Mbps) Growth Rate (%)

700,000

600,000

500,000

400,000

300,000

200,000

100,000

0

18.00%

16.00%

14.00%

12.00%

10.00%

8.00%

6.00%

4.00%

2.00%

0

292,710

10.59%331,283

13.18%

363,077

9.60%

411,590

13.36%

426,654

3.66%

493,312

15.62%

525,888

6.60%

526,644

0.14%

554,751

5.34%

579,309

4.43%

617,797

6.64%

649,193

5.08%

﹒ Unit:Million﹒ Source:TWNIC Broadband Internet Usage Survey﹒ The data before 2011 is based upon a population of residents aged 0~100 in

the Taiwan island.﹒ The data in 2012 is based upon a population of residents aged 0~100 in all

Taiwan administrative regions, inchuding the regions of Kimen and Matsu.

and mobile Internet users have both at least increased more

than 10%. In addition, the number of people who have used

mobile Internet within 6 months is up to 5.35 million, which

is double of last year’s 2.66 million users.

It is discovered from this survey that in 2012, 41.04% of the

broadband Internet users interviewed who were 12 years

old or above in Taiwan use FTTH, which has surpassed ADSL

for the first time and has become the major broadband

Internet connection method with 24.31% of growth

compared to last year. The usage of ADSL has decreased

down to 39.63% from last year’s 61.02%, revealing that the

FTTH market is already mature, and FTTH services provided

by various telecommunication vendors have been accepted

by broadband Internet users.

This survey was also targeted at the number and percentage

of Internet Households in Taiwan. In 2012, the percentage

of Internet Households has reached 80.99%, showing

that more than 6.52 million households can access to the

Internet. In terms of administrative regions, the percentage

of Internet Households in Taipei City this year is 89.02%,

which is the highest. 79.56% (6.41 million) of the households

using broadband compared to last year.

The phone survey was conducted from March 1st to May

27th, 2012. The phone interviewees are family members

of households from the 5 cities and 17 counties in Taiwan

who are at least 12 years old. The number of valid samples

is 3,088. The sampling population is the households with

fixed phone in Taiwan. The phone interviews were carried

out using the Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)

system. The sampling error is 1.48% which is under 95% of

For more information on this survey report, you are welcome

to download it from http://stat.twnic.net.tw.

11.7512.64 12.74

13.80 14.46 14.76 15.38 15.23 15.55 15.82 16.22 16.69 17.53

Jul2003

Jan2004

Jul2004

Jan2005

Jul2005

Jan2006

Jul2006

Jan2007

Jan2008

Jan2009

Jan2010

Jan2011

Mar2012

Internet Users in Taiwan 2002-2012

540,000

520,000

500,000

480,000

460,000

440,000

420,000

400,000

2011.08

2011.09

2011.10

2011.11

2011.12

2012.01

2012.02

2012.03

2012.04

2012.05

2012.06

2012.07

Number of .tw/.台灣 Domain Registrations

Number of .tw/.台灣 Domain Registrations

2,321

2,320

2,319

2,318

2,317

2,316

2,315

Number of IPv6 Allocations in Taiwan (/32)

2011.08

2011.09

2011.10

2011.11

2011.12

2012.01

2012.02

2012.03

2012.04

2012.05

2012.06

2012.07

131,315

131,310

131,305

131,300

131,295

131,290

131,285

2011.08

2011.09

2011.10

2011.11

2011.12

2012.01

2012.02

2012.03

2012.04

2012.05

2012.06

2012.07

Number of IPv4 Allocations in Taiwan (/24)

Number of IPv4 Allocations in Taiwan (/24)

148,000

146,000

144,000

142,000

140,000

138,000

136,000

134,000

132,000

130,000

2011.09

2011.10

2011.11

2011.12

2012.01

2012.02

2012.03

2012.04

2012.05

2012.06

2012.08

2012.07

Number of WWW Servers in Taiwan

Number of WWW Servers in Taiwan

20,300,000

20,200,000

20,100,000

20,000,000

19,900,000

19,800,000

19,700,000

19,600,000

19,500,000

19,400,000

19,300,000

2011.09

2011.10

2011.11

2011.12

2012.01

2012.02

2012.03

2012.04

2012.05

2012.06

2012.08

2012.07

Number of Hosts in Taiwan

Number of Hosts in Taiwan

505,604

142,412

140,599

138,845

136,753137,246

137,205

143,367

145,036

131,297

131,301131,301

131,305

131,305

131,309

131,309131,309

131,313131,313 131,313

131,313

143,961

147,705

144,346

144,915

19,682,143

19,847,919

19,636,645

19,886,14619,919,065

19,915,228

19,738,320

19,993,715

20,186,392

20,142,249

20,176,506

506,986

509,943

512,689

512,399

503,477

504,600

507,068

508,089

509,496

518,488

518,444

Number of IPv6 Allocations in Taiwan (/32)

Number of Different Types of .tw/.台灣Domain Name Registrations as of July 31st, 2012

20,027,338

2,317 2,3172,317

2,318 2,318 2,318 2,3182,318

2,319

2,320 2,320

2,320