World IPv6 Launch. 6 June 2012. Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012. Organized by the
Internet Society and building on the successful one-day
World IPv6 Day event
World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the Internet's continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic development.
This time it is for real Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are
coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.
Frequently Asked Questions on IPv6, (
Internet Society). Adoption and IPv4 exhaustion There have been several calls to action for organisations to plan actively for the widespread deployment of the new version of the basic Internet Protocol, IPv6, which is designed to supplement and eventually replace the 25-year-old IPv4 protocol.
The Internet Society strongly supports such calls for action.
Standards for IPv6. The
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The goal of the IETF is to make the Internet work better
. T he mission of the IETF is to make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet. Newcomers to the IETF should
start here. The
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any interested individual. The IETF Mission Statement is documented in
RFC 3935.
Test your IPv6 connectivity. The test is entirely client-side
javascript. To determine reachability, a series of ajax requests are made from the web server, using various DNS names that force the use of IPv6 only, or dual stack, or other such scenarios. The pass/fail of such fetches, as well as how long they take, are taken into account.