Wednesday January 12, 2011
The Joy of Six:
Major Websites Announce IPv6 Trial
The Internet Protocol or IP is the glue that holds the internet together. But the current version, IPv4, was created at a time when the internet's massive expansion could not have been predicted.
A newer version, IPv6, was created to overcome the problems inherent with the older protocol such as limited IP addresses. But adoption of IPv6 has been slow.
So major sites such as Facebook and Google have announced a trial of IPv6 on June 8th to see if users and providers are ready to leave IPv4 behind.
From Network World:
IPv6 is a necessary upgrade because the Internet is running out of IP addresses using the 30-year-old IPv4 standard.
Less than 5% of IPv4 addresses are left unallocated to the regional Internet registries, which in turn dole them out to network operators. Experts say the free pool of IPv4 addresses will be depleted in a matter of weeks.
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