Handbook of IPv4 to IPv6 Transition

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Foreword

is book requires some upfront knowledge of the Internet Protocol layer and

awareness of the concern that version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) is running

out of address space by 2010-2011 with a symbolic date of 10/10/10.

e original work on the Internet design begun in 1973 by Vint Cerf and Bob

Kahn benefitted from the collective experience of the predecessor to Internet, the

Arpanet. e design of IPv4 took place over the period from 1973 to 1978. It was

the product of a recurring series of specifications, implementations and tests that

ultimately led to standardization of IPv4 in mid-1978. By the early 1990s it was

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