Tomorrow, June 8th, 2011, is World IPv6 Day, and Facebook, Google and Yahoo are all joining in. Here's what that means and what will it mean for you.

After years of testing, major Internet companies, internet service providers, and independent Websites, will switch permanently to IPv6, the next-generation Internet networking technology on June ...

A user on the IPv6 network with an IPv6 address is limited to accessing Websites and services that also have an IPv6 address. The IPv4 address space, which at the moment consists of most of the ...

The Internet has just changed forever, for real, thanks to IPv6. But chances are that you won't notice a thing -- at least not yet. Here's how IPv6 affects you.

The main reason IPv6 exists, or at least the most apparent reason, is the fact that the address for each IP in this version is much longer than IPv4, this allowing, again, many more devices to be ...

Maybe IPv6 is a new form of Internet privacy. What Is IPv6? All of the above ideas do not describe IPv6, but they do help us understand why we need it. How many connected devices do you own or use?

IPv6 will also save CIOs and their staffs time, since it has the ability to auto-configure itself, which essentially makes an IPv6-capable device—a desktop, a security camera or an IP telephone ...

Now if I lost you at “Protocol”, this Infographic from Focus might do a better job in explaining what IPv6 is and why we should care. Click on the image to enlarge.

IPv6 is central to safeguarding the expansion of the internet, but the global deployment of the protocol raises its own security challenges, says Axel Pawlik. The global adoption of IPv6 is one of ...

I wondered if you could survive on just IPv6. Surely, it's an established enough protocol that it would work for daily use. Oh, dear reader, if it were only so. The things I rely on daily to ...