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CEO @AUCglobal – Inventor, UCIA™ – Patent Cited IPv6 & Internet Modernization Leader – Former Technology Co-Chair, U.S. Federal IPv6 Task Force – AUCGlobal.com

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Charles Sun is a visionary IT executive with over three decades of leadership across public and private sectors. He has advanced secure global infrastructure and led transformative digital modernization initiatives that continue to shape the future of the Internet.

Widely recognized as a Patent-Cited IPv6 & Internet Modernization Thought Leader, Charles authored the landmark 2014 Computerworld article, “Stop Using Internet Protocol Version 4!”—a call to action for next-generation Internet adopt…

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No AI Future Without IPv6!

No AI Future Without IPv6!

© 2026 Charles Sun. All rights reserved. This article explains why the future of artificial intelligence c…

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The World's #1 Website Still Runs TLS 1.0 - Why?

The World's #1 Website Still Runs TLS 1.0 - Why?

© 2026 Charles Sun. All rights reserved. This article reveals a surprising security lapse: the world’s mos…

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PERSPECTIVE: "If Not Now, When?": The Federal IPv6-Only Mandate After Five Years - HSToday

PERSPECTIVE: "If Not Now, When?": The Federal IPv6-Only Mandate After Five Years - HSToday

A landmark reflection by Charles Sun, a federal IPv6 thought leader and cybersecurity visionary, this essay c…

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"If Not Now, When?": The Federal IPv6-Only Mandate After Five Years

"If Not Now, When?": The Federal IPv6-Only Mandate After Five Years

In “If Not Now, When?: The Federal IPv6-Only Mandate After Five Years,” Charles Sun issues a clarion call: af…

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📌 IEEE Plagiarism Case: 2020 Exposure → 2025 Escalation

📌 IEEE Plagiarism Case: 2020 Exposure → 2025 Escalation

This page serves as the central record of the IEEE plagiarism case. It documents the original 2020 exposure, …

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Plagiarism in IEEE IoT Newsletter: Escalation After Inaction

Plagiarism in IEEE IoT Newsletter: Escalation After Inaction

© 2025 Charles Sun. All rights reserved. Five years after the first exposure, and days after a formal comp…

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Why Is Alibaba on a Pentagon Blacklist?

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By Charles Sun, Christopher Nye
| Foreign Policy Magazine Verified
On the Pentagon’s recently updated list of “Chinese military companies,” several entries seem strangely out of place. A few lines above the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the state-owned conglomerate that builds the country’s fighter jets, now sits the e-commerce giant Alibaba, for instance. AVIC has appeared on every version of the list since the first was published in June 2021. Its placement is irrefutable. It is “directly owned and controlled” by China’s state asset regulator.
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The Incentive Architecture Export Controls Cannot Reach

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By Charles Sun
| Lawfare Verified
The U.S. debate over how to respond to China’s artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities contains a structural blind spot that neither side has engaged. The most commonly proposed response, tighter export controls, does not merely fail to disrupt the Chinese incentive system that drives AI capability acquisition. It strengthens that system, by deepening the resource dependence that motivates firms to align with the Chinese government’s priorities in the first place.
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The World's #1 Website Still Runs TLS 1.0 — Why?

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By Charles Sun
| LinkedIn
© 2026 Charles Sun. All rights reserved. For decades, the industry has defended keeping obsolete protocols alive with one excuse: “Compatibility.” But when half of the top 10 global websites still allow TLS 1.0 and 1.1 — protocols deprecated years ago — the issue is not compatibility. It is a failure of basic protocol hygiene. Independent scans confirm that even the highest‑ranked domains still negotiate TLS 1.0 when probed — a measurable security regression.
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