Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch Day. This was a day when many major websites & service providers enabled IPv6 support permanently.
For those folks not familiar with IPv6, it’s the next generation Internet addressing scheme set to replace our current IPv4. With the incredible growth of internet connected devices like smartphones, tablets, etc., we’re quickly running out of available IPv4 addresses. IPv6 will solve this problem, as well as offer many new security features.
Unfortunately, since they are not compatible, we have to transition from IPv4 to IPv6. There are many ways to transition, but a popular method involves assigning both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses until most of the internet supports IPv6. This transition has been slow going, but with the impending IPv4 address crunch many anticipate that it will accelerate. Most operating systems, devices, and ISPs are IPv6-ready, but user adoption has been slow.
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