It is no secret that the 4 billion-plus Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses are just about used up. According, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), “phase 4” of its IPv4 ...

Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that’s a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the ...

IPv6 was delivered with migration techniques to cover every conceivable IPv4 upgrade case, but many were ultimately rejected by the technology community, and today we are left with a small set of ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) will be moving to the new IP version 6 (IPv6) from the current IP version 4 (IPv4). IPv6 addresses IPv4 limitations, such as a quickly evaporating address space and a lack ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) warns that moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is a process fraught with peril, which may explain why government agencies are so far behind their own ...

Executives from ICANN and beyond watch the last current-generation Internet addresses depart--and warn about consequences of extending the IPv4-based Net. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

This press release is available in Spanish. The protocol that any device uses to connect to Internet, IPv4, (Internet Protocol version 4), has a problem: due to the Web's tremendous growth, all of its ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s leading IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it is the first network in the world to connect to over 4,000 IPv6 ...