The World IPv6 Launch will be held on June 6, which will mark the beginning of the era of new communication protocol on the Net.
It is about to begin the era of IPv6. Following the success of last year’s World IPv6 Day, an event likely to sensitize the entire web on the need for a transition to the new edition of IP, several prominent names in the technology landscape today have not only decided to renew appointment for 2012, but even on a permanent basis to enable the use of IPv6 access to its services from next June 6.
Portals such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo will therefore use IPv6 to access its online product, in fact launching a strong message to the whole World Wide Web. Alongside them will be both providers (AT & T, Comcast, XS4ALL, Time Warner Cable, Internode and KDDI are the first names that have joined), and groups working to design a device to access the web (Cisco and D-Link), as well as companies active in the distribution of online content (Akamai and Limelight). All lists are, however momentary, in the hope that in the coming week new companies can enter into its membership and in fact increase the importance of an event that wants to do a watershed between the network of today and tomorrow.
The IPv6 is the future of the Internet, after all, is no longer a mystery for a long time: about 4 billion IP addresses provided by IPv4 are rapidly running out, and the migration to the sixth version of the same protocol is approaching day by day. Few, however, the work put in place to do so, with alarm on several occasions launched by leading personalities of the web to bring to light an issue still alive but in some cases neglected. The presence of IPv6 on portals such as Facebook and Google, can catalyze every day millions of hits, however, may represent the first step in the migration that, sooner or later, must be made clear.
Definitely enable IPv6 on their services, then, is a clear message from all the involved companies: the testing of this protocol may in fact be considered as closed, why not nothing else to do but roll up the sleeves and prepare the groundwork for a process that probably will not be completely painless, especially early.