IPv6

It is anticipated that the IPv4 address space currently used by the majority of Internet devices will shortly be exhausted. The IETF has decided to replace the 32-bit addressing scheme in IPv4 with a 128-bit addressing scheme in IPv6. Thus far the change-over has been slow, but time is running out.

Resources

• ISOC IPv6 FAQ
• Wikipedia IPv6
• IPv6 Information Center
• IPv6 Portal
• nav6tf library
• Addressing and the Future Internet Overview from Geoff Huston (2/07)
• Australian Summit 2007: IPv6 at Work Presentations and Abstracts

Forums

• IPv6 Forum - a world-wide consortium dedicated to fostering the deployment of IPv6
• North American IPv6 Task Force North American arm of the IPv6 forum

Articles

• IPv6 and the Future of the Internet ISOC briefing by Brian Carpenter (7/01)
• IPv6 Implementation ISOC briefing by Jim Bound (9/01)
• The Transition to IPv6 ISOC briefing by Eric Carmès (1/02)
• Establishment of global IPv6 address policies ISOC briefing by Takashi Arano(4/03)
• IPv6: Addressing the Digital Divide with IPv6-enabled Broadband Power Line Communications ISOC briefing by Jordi Palet (5/03)
• IPv6: Necessary for Mobile and Wireless Internet ISOC briefing by Alper Yegin, Carl Williams (6/07)
• Waiting for IP version 6 ISOC ISP Column by Geoff Huston (1/03) (responses)
• IPv6 - Evolution or Revolution ISOC ISP Column by Geoff Huston (1/06)
• IPv6 Ping Pong ISOC ISP Column by Geoff Huston (5/07)
• IPv4 Exhaustion Nears ISOC ISP Column by Geoff Huston (7/07)
• Transition to IPv6 ISOC ISP Column by Geoff Huston (8/07)
• IPv6 Local Addresses ISOC ISP Column by Geoff Huston (10/07)
• Background briefing on IPv4 to IPv6 transition ISOC Public Policy briefing (10/07)
• IPv4 vs. IPv6 Network world considers the arguments. (10/07)