So you heard about something called IPv6 and it sounds like it should be important to you somehow. After all, people are saying that the Internet is full and doomed without this mysterious IPv6 thing.

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

The co-authors of Global IPv6 Strategies were the guests for a live Network World chat where they discussed all things IPv6. Bechtel’s Fred Wettling, ArchRock’s Patrick Grossetete, and Cisco’s Ciprian ...

Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I not only advocate the implementation of IPv6, but that I attach a certain urgency to the need for implementation. It therefore surprises some of my ...

Vendors and government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes, and researchers find that network administrators are ...

You’ve probably heard about the looming shortage of Internet addresses, even if you’ve never gone looking for one. But depending on what websites you visit and how you get to them, you may be helping ...

<shameless FreeBSD support><P>Let's not forget what the first operating system to implement IPv6 was.<P></shameless FreeBSD support><P>The whole purpose for IPv6 is we're going to run out of IPv4 ...

I think this deserves it's own thread - it doesn't seem like anyone, including Ars, is reporting on IPv6 anymore, but per Google's per-country IPv6 traffic analysis page, I went and checked today and ...

Some 200 technology companies including Akamai, Facebook, and Google will make the switch to IPv6 during the World IPv6 Day trial for 24 hours June 8. The test is intended to see how ready technology ...

The Internet promises unlimited connectivity, but such connectivity requires that computers and devices find one another through a common address plan. The current plan, in place since the late 1970s, ...