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

The last conventional Internet address blocks likely will be doled out this week or next, moving the transition to a next-gen Internet to the computing front burner. Is your broadband ready? Stephen ...

This won't come as any surprise to anyone in the network business, but Arbor Networks has just published a study of "native IPv6 traffic volumes across multiple large carriers" and found "only a small ...

Vince Cerf, one of the Internet's fathers, wants you to use IPv6. Network administrators have long known that we're running out of IPv4 addresses. But, IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, ...

Recently I have noticed some concrete evidence that the IPv6 Internet is growing. Reports that document IPv6 Internet traffic volumes show that the amount of IPv6 traffic is increasing. The IPv6 ...

The time for testing is over as Facebook, Cisco, Comcast, and others will soon permanently enable next-generation Internet technology with vastly more elbow room. What's it all mean? Stephen Shankland ...

We are at the dawn of the age of IPv6, the Internet protocol that will succeed version 4, experts say. With 340 undecillion available addresses, IPv6 ensures that the Internet can continue growing and ...

You may not have noticed when you woke up today, but the Internet universe expanded overnight by the trillions. Today at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, the new Internet protocol system IPv6 was born, ...

The new system will run concurrently with the old for the next few years A new standard which will allow the creation of trillions of new internet addresses has been enabled. Several companies ...

John Curran is CEO of ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, which provides management and administration for the IP addresses in the U.S., Canada and parts of the Carribbean. Today, the ...