Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6 (NIST Special Publication 800-119) describes and analyzes IPv6’s new and expanded protocols [More]

An algorithm measuring the rate at which IPv4 addresses are used up, and projecting that date into the future, puts the "X-day" at sometime in September 2011. As late as 2004, 2010 was assumed to the be the last year for IPv4 addresses. [More]

IPv4 addresses have become relatively scarce, forcing some organizations to use a Network Address Translator (NAT) to map multiple private addresses to a single public IP address. While NATs promote reuse of the private address space, [More]

Given that the IPv6 integration must be completed, it would be prudent to begin the transition process, starting with training, planning, and creation of a testing environment. As an indication of the risks one runs to remain with IPv4, note that the United States Government has mandated that its IT infrastructure be transitioned to IPv6 by summer 2008. [More]

"We're proud to make YouTube available over IPv6 and to begin streaming videos from a select number of sites worldwide to our Google over IPv6 partners," wrote Lorenzo Colitti, a Google network engineer. "With YouTube on board, we now have a significant amount of content delivered on IPv6 and a real audience/traffic for it." [More]

The number of available IP addresses is limited, and they may be exhausted by as soon as May 2011, according to estimates from Cisco. Thus, a new Internet Protocol has been introduced, and eventually, every device on the globe will be required to convert to the new Internet Protocol in order to maintain Internet connectivity. [More]

Given the mathematical possibilities represented by this type of sequence, 4 billion IP addresses are possible. However, because of the proliferation of IP addresses through the bi-level architecture that assigns IP numbers (to a network and the hosts on that network), the 32-bit addressing schema of IPv4 holds the distinct possibility that those 4 billion addresses will soon be exhausted. [More]

IPv6’s extremely large capacity for addresses lends connectivity to many more electronic devices – mobile phones, laptops, in-vehicle computers, televisions, cameras, building sensors, medical devices, etc. [More]

With the debut of IPv6, just 15% of the address space has been allocated with 85% allocated for future use. A major concern during the development of IPv6 was its compatibility with IPv4. Changing Internet protocols means changing dozens of other conventions, ranging from how IP addresses are stored in applications and DNS (domain name system) to how datagrams are sent and routed over Ethernet, PPP, Token Ring, FDDI, and every other medium. [More]

IPv6’s extremely large capacity for addresses lends connectivity to many more electronic devices – mobile phones, laptops, in-vehicle computers, televisions, cameras, building sensors, medical devices, etc. [More]