Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is here for real. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has set a deadline of Sept. 30 for government agencies to give employees the capability to access the ...

The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses ... it has become clear that the change from the current Internet Protocol version 4, ... we call it TCP/IP, or IPv4, or just IP, as the TCP part is ...

Specifically, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two of the last seven blocks of Net addresses that use today's Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4).

IPv6, or the Internet Protocol version 6, was introduced to overcome this. IPv6 Overview IPv6 is a 128-bit long address called a successor of IPv4 and is deployed to upgrade the Internet protocol.

It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

For the most part, the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased, because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has ...