When the Internet Engineering Task Force approved Internet protocol version 6, proponents
acclaimed it as a major development. Since then, IPv6 has received support only in some …

In 1981, IPv4 became the de facto standard in the Internet routing world. In the early 1980s,
the advantages of IPv4 were unmistakable and therefore, its adoption rate skyrocketed. In …

This paper analyzes the technical and nontechnical impediments for a smooth and
successful transition from IPv4 protocol to IPv6 protocol in the Internet. It tries to illustrate and …

The long discussed and debated transition to IPv6 did not happen over the past ten years
with the objectives of achieving a smooth and low-cost Internet sustainability through …

Industry stakeholders, specialists and scientist generally agree to the fact that the adoption
of IPv6 is not a matter of 'how','why'or 'who'but only of 'when'. Since the design of IPv6 in …

For some years now the general uptake of IPv6 has appeared to be “just around the corner”.
Yet the Internet industry has so far failed to pick up and run with this message, and it …

Even as IPv4 address pools are being depleted, the level of deployment of its successor,
IPv6, remains low. But significant recent developments are breaking down previous …

Version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) has been in wide use for the past 25 years, but it has
outlasted its effective lifetime and is straining to keep up with the demands of today's …

IP, the Internet Protocol, is arguably the most important single networking standard in the
world today. IP is integral to networking on, and off, the Internet. It figures prominently in both …

I suppose we all know the plot by now. Back in the early 1990's it was forecast that we would
run out of IPv4 addresses well before we were ready for the Internet to stop working, and that …