{"id":1976,"date":"2011-06-09T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:56:16","slug":"happy-ipv6-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2011\/06\/09\/happy-ipv6-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy IPv6 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

From IEEE Spectrum<\/a>
\nJune 8, 2011<\/p>\n

Happy IPv6 Day
\nWe’ve run out of IPv4 addresses. Time to test drive the new protocol <\/em><\/p>\n

Interview Podcast found at http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/podcast\/telecom\/standards\/happy-ipv6-day<\/a> <\/p>\n

Happy \u201cWorld IPv6 Day.\u201d If that\u2019s not on your calendar as a major holiday, I\u2019ll explain. Today, more than a thousand organizations, including such Internet giants as Google, Akamai, and Facebook are taking the latest version of the Internet\u2019s most important protocol out for a one-day test drive.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s just in the nick of time. It\u2019s been four months since the final batch of IPv4 addresses were handed out to the Regional Internet Registries, which means we could run completely out of IPv4 addresses within a year\u2019s time. IPv6 can handle some 340 undecillion unique addresses. That sounds like a made-up word, but my producer assures me it means there are about 10 to the 29th more addresses than the 4 billion addresses that IPv4 has space for.<\/p>\n

The Internet doesn\u2019t have a president or prime minister or czar or any other form of governance; there\u2019s no one to say, okay, this is the day we\u2019re all going to switch from one IP version to another. There\u2019s the Internet Engineering Task Force, a volunteer organization that hammers out the details of the protocols themselves, and there\u2019s the Internet Society, a nonprofit organization that was created in 1992 in order to, as its charter says, provide leadership in Internet-related standards, education, and policy. Earlier this year the Internet Society decided to devote a day to the new protocol. So what\u2019s this day all about? And what does it mean for us Web surfers, bloggers, e-mailers, and Facebook updaters?<\/p>\n

My guest is Leslie Daigle, the chief Internet technology officer for the Internet Society. Previously, she served as chair of the Internet Architecture Board and before that, she worked on Internet directory systems with the Internet Engineering Task Force.<\/p>\n

This interview was recorded 7 June 2011.
\nSegment producer: Ariel Bleicher; audio engineer: Francesco Ferorelli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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