IPv6 brings some welcome security and other features, but there are some 'gotchas' for IP professionals that may not be immediately apparent. The next generation IPv6 protocol has been "coming soon" ...

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. Domains that ...

IPv6—the next-generation Internet protocol—isn’t keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should. Experts say that most U.S. organizations have hidden IPv6 ...

The U.S. government wants civilian and defense agencies to adapt their networks by mid-2008 to support IPv6-based traffic, but the lack of security products to support this transition is causing ...

It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

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 ...

While the vast majority of networks today are based on the IPv4 protocol, the U.S. government is mandating that defense and civilian agencies are ready to accept IPv6-based traffic as well by June ...

Vince Cerf, one of the Internet's fathers, wants you to use IPv6. Network administrators have long known that we're running out of IPv4 addresses. But, IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, ...

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is gaining in importance because IPv4 has run out of addresses. IPv4’s 32-bit address just isn’t long enough. IPv6, with its 128-bit address field, will provide ...

After working on the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for a decade and a half, the Internet Engineering Task Force decided it was time to turn off the old protocol (IPv4 or just IP). So this is ...