IPv6 has been a hot topic in the networking industry for over a year now, and as the changeover progresses, it is still a priority for companies. There are two main issues for IT departments. The ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Federal ...

The switch to IPv6 – on 6 June – shows just how imminent the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is. The 32-bit IPv4 address space can support 4.3 billion addresses and IPv4 addresses are running out. In ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

First though, we want to help your organization or business decide if it should be pursuing the goal of making your websites or applications available on IPv6. There are so many kinds of businesses ...

Learn how to use tools like nslookup, dig, and browser add-ons to diagnose IPv6 connectivity issues and ensure optimal browsing in a dual-protocol environment. One way to get your browser to navigate ...

With the official exhaustion of IPv4 open-pool addresses in February, the long migration path to IPv6 has passed another important milestone. Since the IANA IPv6 worldwide deployment announcement in ...

While it's a long way off for many companies, IPv6 is slowly but surely making its way into products. Its use was experimental in Windows 2000, but Windows Server 2003 features a full, native IPv6 ...

The document covers technical requirements for using the new internet protocol, as well as security considerations for the new format. Federal agencies are on the ...

The Internet Society, an organization dedicated to the good of the Internet, is organizing "World IPv6 Day" on June 8 of this year. Web giants Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, with a combined one billion ...

On June 6, 2012, Facebook will join with other web companies (Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo) to permanently enable Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) on facebook.com. From that point on, Facebook ...