During the meeting taking place in San Jose, the Minister of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (Micitt), Marcelo Jenkins said that from his portfolio they are working to educate and raise awareness about the importance of implementing the new protocol. "Moving from IPV4 to IPV6 involves concrete actions, as a result was included in the National Plan for Telecommunications Development, in order to ensure that Internet continues growing, both in number of users and services as well as ensure that the process is comprehensive considering issues ranging from training, implementation and monitoring," he said at the opening of the meeting.
Oscar Robles, director of Lacnic, added that "the ideal situation is that Internet providers make a smooth transition and parallel while the IPv4 protocol is being replaced by IPv6. Since June 2012 the possibility of going this route became feasible, however, the slowness of the process has made us as a region and especially as a country has placed us very behind."