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

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Federal ...

This past week, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) that issues IP addresses issued the last 5 blocks of public IP addresses, thus starting a firestorm of news stories on the Internet that ...

The switch to IPv6 – on 6 June – shows just how imminent the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is. The 32-bit IPv4 address space can support 4.3 billion addresses and IPv4 addresses are running out. In ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most widely used communications protocol. Because it is the most pervasive communication technology, it is the focus of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals like ...

IPv6 has been a hot topic in the networking industry for over a year now, and as the changeover progresses, it is still a priority for companies. There are two main issues for IT departments. The ...

Preparing for the eventual widespread conversion to IPv6, the Nmap Project has updated its namesake security scanning tool so it can scan IPv6 networks using a variety of novel techniques. Nmap ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) warns that moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is a process fraught with peril, which may explain why government agencies are so far behind their own ...

IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol (IP) for identification and location of computers on networks and Internet traffic routing. I’ve been waiting for it now for years but nothing ever seems to happen. I ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

At CES in Las Vegas, a panel of experts on Internet Protocol technology discussed IPv6 and the benefits of having mobile devices use IPv6 instead of IPv4. As it turns out, IPv6 offers some pretty ...