Test flight for IPv6 announced
A global trial of the net's new addressing system is being planned for 8 June. The test is being held to raise awareness about the imminent change from version 4 of the addressing scheme to version 6. Net giants Google, Facebook, Akamai and Yahoo have committed to taking part in the "test flight" of IPv6. Net firms are being encouraged to switch to IPv6 as addresses in the old scheme will run out by November 2011.
"The good news is that internet users don't need to do anything special to prepare for World IPv6 Day,"said Lorenzo Colitti, a network engineer at Google in a blog post.
"Our current measurements suggest that the vast majority (99.95%) of users will be unaffected. However, in rare cases, users may experience connectivity problems, often due to misconfigured or misbehaving home network devices."
The World IPv6 Day is being co-ordinated by the Internet Society, a non-profit group which educates people and companies about net issues. It has provided a webpage through which people can test their Ipv6 readiness.
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