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Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Time for a New Internet Protocol? - Vincent Ryan, NewsFactor Network
"You can run IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time. We expect a very long period of coexistence in the network," the IETF's Margaret Wasserman said. "There's not flag day -- there's no day you have to convert." Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) was supposed to be the next Year 2000, without the deadline. But dire warnings that the world soon would run out of IP addresses were dead wrong, much like the Year 2000 doom-and-gloom predictions. Still, there is one crucial difference between the two situations: IPv6 is still hanging around, and for good reason.
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