The computing industry has begun a major 24-hour test today to work the kinks out of IPv6, a disruptive but necessary overhaul of the Internet's inner workings. Starting at midnight, Universal ...

ORANGE, CONN. While there aren’t any reports of companies giving their employees the day off one June 8 to celebrate World IPv6 Day, it does mark an industry milestone along the path of migration of ...

Illustration: Elizabeth Hinshaw Brett Thorson, a network scientist for RavenWing in Herndon, Va., is an integration and security adviser with the North American IPv6 Task Force. You might not realize ...

Some 200 technology companies including Akamai, Facebook, and Google will make the switch to IPv6 during the World IPv6 Day trial for 24 hours June 8. The test is intended to see how ready technology ...

Did you notice anything odd with your Internet connection today? Probably not, but the Internet started changing in a big way under the hood, with websites and Internet service providers turning on a ...

As the number of available IPv4 addresses dwindle, operators are getting ready to ramp up the roll-out of IPv6 and World IPv6 Day, on Wednesday, will help the industry root out any problems. The need ...

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), which is responsible for the standardization of the third-generation mobile networks, has designated the session initiation protocol (SIP) as the call ...

The U.S. government has reportedly struck a compromise between network vendors and independent test labs with its plan to launch a comprehensive product testing program for IPv6, the next-generation ...

A quick web search will throw up numerous articles on the subject (another search will tell you the story behind IPv5). The Internet Society is another good source of information, and is also the ...