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This year, IPv6 Day will be for real
Posted by David Brooks | Friday, January 27, 2012
New Hampshire has a local connection to the long, long process of switching the Internet over to IPv6, the bigger and better addressing system, thanks to UNH's Interoperability Lab, so let's take note of the fact that this year's IPv6 Day in June, unlike last year's, will be the real thing. Ars Technica notes:
But unlike last year, after turning on the new version of the Internet Protocol on some of the largest Web properties—and many smaller ones—this year, IPv6 will not be turned off again 24 hours later. So "this time it's for real," and the new protocol will be here to stay at Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook, and Cisco, as well as many Akamai and Limelight customers.Most of us won't really notice, at least not yet, but eventually the switch has to occur or the Internet tubes will get all clogged up.
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