A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after ICANN added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the internet protocol. On Monday, ICANN, the ...

Let’s take a long hard look at an IPv6 address. Amazon supply IPv6 addresses with their EC2 cloud computers. When you fire up an EC2 virtual machine, you get an IPv6 address like this.

There are a few culprits that regularly contribute to delayed or failed IPv6 deployment projects, such as poor DNS planning, insufficient testing, unanticipated application behavior, and poor IPv6 ...

Belarus has become the first country in the world to legally mandate support for IPv6-- the latest version of the Internet Protocol, the glue that keeps the whole internet together. Starting January 1 ...

One of the benefits of the next-generation Internet protocol known as IPv6 is the enhanced privacy it offers over its IPv4 predecessor. With a staggering 2 128 (or about 3.4×10 38) theoretical ...

I’ve written about IPv6 address design previously, and in that post I briefly touched on the fact that our long-ingrained habits of IPv4 address design can lead us astray when working with IPv6. I’d ...

IPv6 is the successor to our current internet protocol, IPv4. It offers many new features, including a vastly increased address space (128 bits of address vs. IPv4's measly 32 bits), easier ...

The internet addresses under the present version IPv4, are limited and service providers often assign single IP address to many users, making it difficult to identify the end user. "The number of IPv6 ...

"All new retail wireline customer connections provided by service providers after December 31, 2022, shall be capable of carrying IPv6 traffic either on dual stack on native IPv6," the note said. "All ...