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 ...

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 ...

The organisation that coordinates the internet's global domain name system is urging network operators around the world to adopt IPv6 as the global supply of IPv4 addresses begins to dwindle. The ...

Today, the last current-generation Internet addresses were divvied up at the highest level. Here's a look at what happens next in rebuilding the Net with the newer IPv6. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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 ...

The internet is about to reach another big milestone during its short 30-year life _ changing from the current Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to the new version 6 (IPv6), due to the shortage of ...

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 ...

It might take a long time, possibly a decade or so, for the remaining part of the IPv4 web address resource pool allotted to the Asia Pacific region to get exhausted, despite the crunch that is being ...