IPv6 Act Now

Think back ten years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 11,500; Comcast was purchasing Lenfest and Prime Cable; and IT departments around the world were feverishly preparing for the transition to the year 2000 (Y2K).

Remember Y2K? That was the “millennium bug” that resulted from the practice of shortening a four-digit year to two digits. It created a lot of panic—and revenue for companies that offered solutions to a problem that was likely overstated.

Today’s Y2K is the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, although insiders bristle at that comparison. The big difference is that this transition has no hard stop.

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