A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

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 ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

The federal government has commenced initiatives to migrate its Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to (IPv6) in line with the standard used globally to enhance cybersecurity and guarantee the ...

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Christerfer James, 100th Communication Squadron Cyber Transport supervisor, runs cable Sept. 4, 2015, on RAF Mildenhall, England. James was granting RAF Mildenhall users the ...

In recent times, the two technologies that jointly brought ubiquitous online connectivity to the world have confronted existential difficulties brought on by their own success. IPv4 (Internet Protocol ...