IPv6 Day: Will users feel the stress of worldwide test?
31 May 2011
If all goes right, you won’t notice, but the point is to find where the problems are.
On June 8, a handful of government agencies will join some of the largest organizations on the Internet in a global stress test of the world’s Internet infrastructure by switching to IPv6 as their primary means of connection for 24 hours.
World IPv6 Day, a collaborative effort among the Internet Society (ISOC) and the online community, comes just as the last of the available IPv4 address blocks are beginning to disappear and as agencies are facing a mandate to enable the next generation of Internet Protocols — IPv6 — on their networks.
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