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The transition from IPv4 to IPv6
Many users of the internet are oblivious to the standards that are behind the protocol that they are using. Did you know that their were different versions of Internet protocol (IP), the standard that is used to drive the internet? Well if you didn’t, now you know.
And I’m bringing this up because it’s getting an upgrade, from IPv4 to IPv6. If you’re wondering What Happened to IPv5, to make a long story short, Internet Stream Protocol(ST) was considered to be IPv5 by industry researchers, was scrapped. So we’re moving from the IPv4 standard to the IPv6 standard.
Why move from IPv4?
The number of current IP addresses is becoming scarce and they are running out. There are around only 17 million actual assignable addresses. As a result, more address space is required to meet the growing demands of consumers and businesses in the new economy.
What is IPv6?
IPv6 is the next-generation Internet Protocol version designated as the successor to version 4.
Links
There are many websites that go into the technical detail of IPv6, however, I won’t go into it here as they could explain it 10x better than I ever could. The main purpose of this blog post was to bring awareness to the IPv6 standard since IP versioning is pretty much transparent to the normal user.
Here are some blog posts to find out more about IPv6:
1. What is IPv6? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjV1Vo0_BRU&feature=fvst
2. The Difference between an IPv4 and IPv6 address. – http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Longhorn/ipv6.htmhttp://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Longhorn/ipv6.htm
3 What is my IP address? What is IPv6? – http://whatismyipaddress.com/staticpages/index.php/what-is-IPv6
4. The move onto IPv6 - http://www.techworld.com/networking/features/index.cfm?featureid=1109
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