Hi.
Someone claiming to be ARIN's President and CEO John Curran posted the
following to Meta-Wiki recently:
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As many folks are aware, the Internet has been a remarkably successful
phenomena. One consequence of this success is that the present underlying
Internet Protocol (IP version 4, or IPv4) is reaching the deployment limits
on the number of devices that can be uniquely addressed. The upper limit is
approx 4.3 Billion devices. To allow the Internet to continue to expand, it
is now necessary to begin using larger IP addresses for servers, these new
addresses are known as IP version 6, or IPv6. It is particularly important
for major Internet content providers to make this transition, since new
users are now being connected with IPv6 and must go through transition
gateways to reach sites which are not using both IPv4 and IPv6.
On 6 June 2012, nearly one thousand web sites are permanently turning on
IPv6 as part of the Internet Society's "World IPv6 Launch"
event.
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/ This includes Google, Facebook, and
other major providers. Wikipedia has been working on IPv6 support for some
time, and it would be good if a commitment to having IPv6 by this date could
be made.
/John
John Curran, President and CEO, ARIN 12.174.51.2 00:37, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
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Source:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&oldid=3588620#T…
tion_of_the_Internet_from_IPv4_to_IPv6_.26_Wikipedia_support_for_IPv6
Any thoughts on this from ops?
MZMcBride