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

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note that it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The IPv6 movement has been ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most widely used communications protocol. Because it is the most pervasive communication technology, it is the focus of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals like ...

In this article in our Royal Holloway security series, we examine the mechanisms that have been invented to allow users of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), which replaces IPv4, to prove their ...

Editor’s note: An editing error mischaracterized how to test IPv6 capability from a network. We have removed that reference, and we regret the error. The Internet ...