"World IPv6 Day" Being Held to Raise Awareness

According to telegraph.co.uk, the world could run out of web addresses as soon as November, unless it adopts the newer IPv6, which will provide trillions of new web addresses. Currently most of the internet uses IPv4, which came into use in 1981. While IPv4 uses a 32 bit address, IPv6 uses a 128 bit address, meaning that there is a substantially larger number of addresses available. IPv6 has more benefits, as many of you know, but the main reason to switch is for more addresses. To encourage adoption of the newer protocol, internet companies such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and many others will be holding what they called “world IPv6 Day.” Google has long supported IPv6, and has been helping ISPs switch over, but what will happen on June 8 is all those websites going along will enable IPv6 on their main websites. Most people should be unaffected, but a small (read: small) majority working with older equipment will be unable to access these websites for a while.