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You are here: Home / News / 6 June 2012 is World IPv6 Launch

6 June 2012 is World IPv6 Launch

By Faust Principe June 5, 2012

Internet Service Providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by June 6, 2012.

Press Release:

World IPv6 Launch Solidifies Global Support for New Internet Protocol

Top websites, Internet service providers, and home networking equipment manufacturers commit to largest transition in the Internet’s history

[Washington, D.C., USA and Geneva, Switzerland] – 17 January 2012 – Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.

Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the Internet’s continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic development.

“The fact that leading companies across several industries are making significant commitments to participate in World IPv6 Launch is yet another indication that IPv6 is no longer a lab experiment; it’s here and is an important next step in the Internet’s evolution,” commented Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology Officer. “And, as there are more IPv6 services, it becomes increasingly important for companies to accelerate their own deployment plans.”

ISPs participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 for enough users so that at least 1% of their wireline residential subscribers who visit participating websites will do so using IPv6 by 6 June 2012. These ISPs have committed that IPv6 will be available automatically as the normal course of business for a significant portion of their subscribers. Committed ISPs are:

●      AT&T
●      Comcast
●      Free Telecom
●      Internode
●      KDDI
●      Time Warner Cable
●      XS4ALL

Participating home networking equipment manufacturers will enable IPv6 by default through the range of their home router products by 6 June 2012. Committed equipment manufacturers are:

●      Cisco
●      D-Link

Web companies participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 on their main websites permanently beginning 6 June 2012. Inaugural participants are:

●      Facebook (www.facebook.com)
●      Google (www.google.com)
●      Microsoft Bing (www.bing.com)
●      Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)

Content delivery network providers Akamai and Limelight will be enabling their customers to join this list of participating websites by enabling IPv6 throughout their infrastructure.

As IPv4 addresses become increasingly scarce, every segment of the industry must act quickly to accelerate full IPv6 adoption or risk increased costs and limited functionality online for Internet users everywhere. World IPv6 Launch participants are leading the way in this effort.

For more information about World IPv6 Launch, products, and services covered, as well as links to useful information for users and information about how other companies may participate, visit:

http://www.worldipv6launch.org

About the need for IPv6
IPv4 has approximately four billion IP addresses (the sequence of numbers assigned to each Internet-connected device). The explosion in the number of people, devices, and web services on the Internet means that IPv4 is running out of space. IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol which provides more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses, will connect the billions of people not connected today and will help ensure the Internet can continue its current growth rate indefinitely.

About the Internet Society
The Internet Society is the world’s trusted independent source of leadership for Internet policy, technology standards and future development. Based on its principled vision and substantial technological foundation, the Internet Society works with its members and Chapters around the world to promote the continued evolution and growth of the open Internet through dialog among companies, governments, and other organizations around the world. For more information, see: www.internetsociety.org

 

Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Jeff Young
jyoung@akamai.com

AT&T
Jenny Bridges
jenny.bridges@fleishman.com

Cisco
Marc Musgrove
mmusgrov@cisco.com

Comcast
Jorge Alberni
jorge_alberni@comcast.com

D-Link
Denise Keddy
denise.keddy@dlink.com

Facebook
Nisha Gulati
ngulati@fb.com

Google Inc.
press@google.com

Internet Society
Wende Cover
cover@isoc.org

Internode
John Harris
jharris@impress.com.au

Limelight Networks
Heather Miller
media@llnw.com

Microsoft Bing
Bill Hankes
bhankes@microsoft.com

Time Warner Cable
Justin Venech
justin.venech@twcable.com

XS4ALL
Timo Hilbrink
woordvoering@xs4all.nl

Yahoo!
DJ Anderson
dj@yahoo-inc.com

Participate in the cause and show your support by showing off launch banner on your site – [download] here.

Credits:
World IPv6 Launch

About Faust Principe

Faust is the author and founder of GeekyFaust. You can follow him at facebook.com/geekyfaust don't forget to like and share!

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