Google, Facebook, Yahoo support World IPv6 Day on June 8
IPv4 web addresses will be exhausted by March 2012, yet no one seems to be volunteering to make the switch from IPv4's ageing web address protocol to the newer IPv6. To that effect, Google, Facebook and Yahoo, along with other Web giants, will make the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 for one day on June 8, 2011 -- dubbed World IPv6 Day.
The Internet Society's initiative to urge the likes of Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and content providers like Akamai and Limelight Networks to switch to IPv6 on June 8 is to test and verify the transition process. Of course, by urging major online stakeholders like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook to switch to IPv6 web addresses from IPv4, the Internet Society wants to accelerate the widespread adoption of IPv6 addresses.
In October last year, less than 5-percent IPv4 web addresses were left for grabs, in a trend that reported IPv4 address consumption outmatching adoption of IPv6 addresses. Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol stack, commented, "In the short history of the Internet, the transition to IPv6 is one of the most important steps we will take together to protect the Internet as we know it," in the Internet Society's report.
IPv4 web addresses will be exhausted by March 2012, yet no one seems to be volunteering to make the switch from IPv4's ageing web address protocol to the newer IPv6. To that effect, Google, Facebook and Yahoo, along with other Web giants, will make the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 for one day on June 8, 2011 -- dubbed World IPv6 Day.
The Internet Society's initiative to urge the likes of Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and content providers like Akamai and Limelight Networks to switch to IPv6 on June 8 is to test and verify the transition process. Of course, by urging major online stakeholders like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook to switch to IPv6 web addresses from IPv4, the Internet Society wants to accelerate the widespread adoption of IPv6 addresses.
In October last year, less than 5-percent IPv4 web addresses were left for grabs, in a trend that reported IPv4 address consumption outmatching adoption of IPv6 addresses. Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist and co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol stack, commented, "In the short history of the Internet, the transition to IPv6 is one of the most important steps we will take together to protect the Internet as we know it," in the Internet Society's report.
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