Nico talks about his first Facebook post over IPv6 and the many pieces of hardware and software involved along the chain that required upgrades and changes to support IPv6. Read more
For many years IPv6 did not receive much attention as IPv4 address depletion mitigation techniques like Network Address Translation (NAT) were successfully deployed. However, IPv4 address consumption has been growing steadily and believe it or not IPv4 address exhaustion is a reality today. IANA exhausted the global IPv4 address pool February 3rd 2011 and the APNIC was the first regional registry to use up their regional IPv4 address pool on the 15th of April. The sky is not falling though ... Read more
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