Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that "on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses of the four root servers whose operators have requested ...

Last year, Apple told iOS developers that IPv6-only cell service is coming soon, get your apps ready. As of June 2015, iOS applications were required to support IPv6. Apparently iOS developers are ...

This story originally appeared in TV Technology. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn’t collapse when major companies including ...

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 ...

Several folks have written to comment on the 250% increase in overhead I attributed to IPv6 in my previous column on the topic. They’re right. The number is overstated, for a rather embarrassing ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

Most enterprises are primarily concerned with the hardware and software costs of migrating to IPv6, but they should also plan on a higher bandwidth bill. How well prepared are your vendors and service ...

What you need to know about the format of the 4-byte ASN, how it interoperates with 2-byte ASNs, and how to prepare your network for them. For all the harping I do on this blog about IPv4 address ...