ipv6 news from FierceCIO

If you work for a university, government agency, retailer or any other company with a content-heavy website, then your organization is probably considering when and how to make the site and Read more...

The final chunks of IPv4 addresses were doled out last week, and after those are distributed to their ultimate address holders, anyone looking for a new address will have to turn to the IPv6 Read more...

Veteran ISP executive John Curran is the new president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, a coordinating body that allocates IP addresses and related autonomous system numbers to Read more...

There's the nine-digit Social Security Number that has worked for generations. There's the five-digit zip code that basically works--although the Postal Service added four new digits for businesses Read more...

Google is fully behind the development of IPv6--the next-generation Internet. It's easy, inexpensive and requires only a small team of developers to make it happen. But that's a very different Read more...

IPv6 is not winning any popularity contests in the business world, according to a new survey by the Internet Society (ISOC). The survey found that vendors do not see any "concrete business drivers Read more...

IPv6 is a failure so far in its efforts to expand the Internet before it runs out of IP addresses by 2012. A new study from the web monitoring company Pingdom showed that only 4 percent of the Read more...

In the most comprehensive study of actual IPv6 usage to date, Arbor Networks worked with the University of Michigan and close to 100 Internet providers in order to measure actual inter-domain IPv6 Read more...

With little last-minute scrambling on the part of various agencies CIO or networking staff, the deadline on the 30th of June for IPv6 compatibility has come and gone without much fanfare. Read more...

The expansion of the Internet, known as IPv6, is on its way. But will your staff know how to handle it? The federal government is on a timetable to expand access to the Internet starting in June Read more...