The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering establishing a working group to smooth some of the impending issues around setting up and maintaining IPv6-based Internet connections into homes. “A ...

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) engineers, reacting with unusual speed, have moved to address a serious security lapse in IPv6 before it becomes too widespread. The bug, involving Type 0 ...

We posed a few questions to Russ Housley, chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force, about why the standards body is developing network address translations for IPv6 when IPv6 was supposed to ...

IPv6, the long-awaited upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, might be showing signs of life with last week’s announcement of MCI’s first commercial customer for IPv6 services.

Editor's note: To view a PDF version of this article, click here. The next two years will see a significant ramp of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) deployments. While an industrywide transition to ...

With U.S. federal government agencies facing a looming deadline to migrate to IPv6, router manufacturer Juniper Networks recently published an informational guide on this pending upgrade to the ...

Verizon’s professional services arm has introduced a service to convert networks to IPv6, anticipating that large organizations will soon need help with such projects. “These services will span the ...