IPv6

IPv6-only networks by 2011 one engineer hopes

Not all fields of endeavor appear to be as collectively organized as well as the federal government when it comes to migrating to version 6 of the Internet Protocol. Now, an engineer from the Internet Engineering Task Force has posted a proposed timetable for all organizations and service providers to move to the new protocol.

In short, we may start to have IPv6-only networks as soon as 2011, if this plan takes hold.

"One of the challenges [the migration] poses is that it's very easy to get caught up in the various transition approaches and miss the high-level view of what needs to be accomplished," engineer and draft author John Curran wrote in a dispatch announcing the paper sent to the mailing list of the North American Network Operators' Group (NANOG).