Fourteen years after the Internet visionaries at the IETF first developed IPv6, there are still a vast majority of IT people who do not know about IPv6. There is still a significant lack of ...

If you want to learn the basics of IPv6 and its peripheral routing and transition protocols, there are a number of good books on the market. But what if you’re a software coder needing to work with ...

The Internet's IPv4 clock keeps ticking down. As Robert Cannon, the FCC's senior counsel for Internet law, observed recently, "The original [Internet] address space, IPv4, is nearly exhausted." He's ...

The IPv6 protocol affects the security of your network even if you haven't deployed it internally. Here are the most important points every security team needs to understand about the protocol. If you ...

While it's a long way off for many companies, IPv6 is slowly but surely making its way into products. Its use was experimental in Windows 2000, but Windows Server 2003 features a full, native IPv6 ...

Many systems that purport to have connectivity to the IPv6 Internet, well, don't. According to measurements done by Google 18 months ago, about a third of a percent of all Web users' systems think ...

I’ve written several times about the inexorable decline in available IPv4 space and why that means we’re all going to have to get our heads out of the sand and learn IPv6. If you read that particular ...

IPv6 has been one of the hottest topics of 2011. The heat around this subject was kindled with ICANN ‘s announcement that they’d depleted their IPv4 addresses by issuing their last two /8’s but ...

Microsoft warned customers this Tuesday to patch a critical TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability with an increased likelihood of exploitation that impacts all Windows systems using IPv6, ...

Although everyone seems to ignore the inevitable, IPv6 will become a reality soon, so plan for it now I’ve written several times about the inexorable decline in available IPv4 space and why that means ...