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

Perhaps it’s not actually the longest story ever, but discussions about the cut-over from IPv4 to IPv6 have been going on for quite some time. So far, the adoption of IPv6 has been very slow, with ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) developedduring the mid-1970s, is the backbone of a family of protocols thatincludes TCP, UDP, RIP, and virtually every otherprotocol used for Internet communications. The ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

The switch to IPv6 – on 6 June – shows just how imminent the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is. The 32-bit IPv4 address space can support 4.3 billion addresses and IPv4 addresses are running out. In ...

IPv6 is the “new” way to connect to the Internet. For years we’ve been using version 4 of the Internet Protocol, but have since run out of IP addresses, which are your business computers’ unique ...

It’s only the most significant architectural development in the history of the Internet, and presto, it transpired last night at 00:01 GMT. Did you notice? I’m betting not, and that you probably ...

For once, this article is not about security but rather on IPv6 for residential subscribers and their contract to their ISP. As I see more and more residential ISP moving to IPv6, most of them seem to ...

World IPv6 Day, 6 June, 2012 is here, and with it many ISPs, websites and manufacturers are now supporting IPv6, the next generation network protocol of the internet. For many users, though, the ...