• IPv6 is 20 years old

    From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to All on Tue Feb 2 13:35:43 2016
    Hello All,

    IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment

    by Iljitsch van Beijnum - Jan 3, 2016 6:00pm CET

    Twenty years ago this month, RFC 1883 was published: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification. So what's an Internet Protocol, and what's wrong with the previous five versions? And if version 6 is so great, why has it only been adopted by half a percent of the Internet's users each year over the past two decades?

    Read more at: http://preview.tinyurl.com/hc6a2f7

    Note: You would not say it from the name but Iljitsch is Dutch and an ex Fidonet Sysop.


    Cheers, Michiel

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