IPv6 promises to fix that by giving every device its own globally unique address, removing the need for NAT and simplifying ...

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 ...

Almost from inception, the adoption and usage of the internet have grown at a rapid rate. Various sources estimate a growth rate of around 9% per year to nearly 5 billion users in 2021, more than ...

<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 ...

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 ...

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

In early 2019, as Technology Co-Chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force, I participated in intensive policy discussions with federal cybersecurity leadership about a critical national security imperative ...

The entire IPv6 number space has 2 128 addresses – over 340 undecillion addresses.

An attendee wears sunglasses promoting IPv6 at the opening of the Internet Governance Forum on November 26, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Michele Tantussi/Getty Images) Agencies should develop ...

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 ...

China had 865 million active users of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) by Sept 2025, accounting for 77.02 percent of the ...

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, ...