By Scott M. Fulton, Read, Write, Web
Welcome to the new Internet! Last night, some 200 major service providers, including AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Google, Facebook and Time Warner Cable, switched over to a new version of the Internet protocol. The transition from Internet Protocol v4 to v6 (skipping over the number in between) is the biggest infrastructure shift in the Internet since the network was founded. Yet Internet Society officials, prior to the switch last night, calmly assured users that they wouldn’t notice a thing. To understand why, it’s necessary to delve into the tortured history of IPv6. Proposed in 1995 and adopted as a workable protocol in 1999, Internet Protocol version 6 was designed to support the Interent’s rampant growth.
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