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IPv6 is Here

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-kinda-anyway dept.

shawn(at)fsu writes "Reuters is running a story that Vinton Cerf of the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says that "IPv6 been added to its root server systems" I like how they said that it will run along side IPv4 for 20 years to get rid of the bugs. A few previous Slashdot stories out of many here, here and here"

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  1. Re:Feeling Old by wonkamaster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not too many people remember v5. The IP version is a reference to the IP header "version" field, and 5 was reserved for ST2: See RFC 1819 Sesion 1.2, 2nd paragraph.

    So what do you call the next IP version? Version 6, of course!