Heard enough about IPv4 and IPv6 yet? Â Good. Â Here’s something new for you – IPv10.
IP version 10 (IPv10) is a new version of the Internet Protocol,
designed to allow IP version 6 [RFC-2460] to communicate to
IP version 4 (IPv4) [RFC-791] and vice versa.
Here’s some not so light coffee time reading on IPv6 –Â IPv6 non-alternatives: DJB’s article, 13 years later – an article that links, among other things to this Ars Technica article, which features some IPv6 statistics. Â Summary? Â Sure. Â IPv6 RFC celebrates 20 year birthday this month with 10% global penetration.
Exponential growth year-on-year is good. Â But the absolute numbers aren’t so bright yet. Â Especially considering some of the areas where it wasn’t so successful.
Yesterday I received some very good news from the service that makes this website faster for people all around the world – CloudFlare. Â In summary: it is CloudFlare’s first birthday since they went public, and to celebrate this they implemented an extremely easy to setup IPv6 gateway service. Â Anyone using CloudFlare can enable the IPv6 gateway either for the whole domain or for specific hosts, and it only takes a couple of clicks. Â Of course, I’ve done so and used a few testing tools around the web to confirm that my website is now accessible via IPv6 also.
Thank you, CloudFlare! Â Happy birthday! Â And please, by all means, keep doing what you are doing.
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