Network World ran an article I wrote in January of last year discussing the decline in IPv6 address allocations since 2002 and the prediction that the tide will begin to turn. Now that 2007 is behind ...

European businesses are being held back from migrating to IP version 6 due to the way IP addresses are being allocated, according to the director of IT at the UK internet registrar, Nominet. IPv6 will ...

If you're Joe User, you don't have to worry about IPv6 yet. But, if you own a business in Europe, the Middle East or some of Central Asia, start worrying. RIPE NCC, the RIR (Regional Internet Registry ...

Before a tsunami hits shore the sea recedes abruptly and there is a deceiving period of calm before the waves arrive. Given IPv6 address allocation trends, perhaps the analogy applies to the ...

Just four months after the 2012 World IPv6 Launch Day, RIPE NCC — the RIR (Regional Internet Registry) for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia — has announced that it has distributed ...

Eight in ten UK government departments aren’t IPv6 ready, according to a freedom of information (FoI) request by network control firm Infoblox. Despite being one of the two government departments ...

At last, a small set of unicast addresses have been defined for special use. They do not carry a scope, so they are discussed independently of the other unicast addresses. Two basic addresses carry ...

Google denies that it is trying to position itself as an internet service provider, despite wide speculation to the contrary. "Google has no current plans to be an internet service provider outside of ...

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has assigned two large blocks of IPv4 addresses to the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre, activating a rule under which the agency will give out the last ...

This is Part 3 of a series about IT fundamentals. These articles are based on excerpts from the Society of Broadcast Engineers CBNT/CBNE Study Topics webinar series, designed to assist those seeking ...

Comcast said this week that it has successfully seeded a tiny group of customers with a new type of dual-stack cable modem that can access IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses without compromises. On Jan. 11, ...

IPv6 represents an evolutionary step for IP. Despite building upon IPv4 and the experience gained operating IPv4 networks, IPv6 has its own idiosyncrasies and unique functionality implementations. For ...