Foreword
When Joe first asked me to write a foreword for this latest edition of Understanding IPv6, I looked to forewords from previous editions as well as other networking books, hoping to draw some inspiration. As will become increasingly obvious, my writing skills are not as honed as Joe’s.
Looking back was actually incredibly useful to me, because it clearly accentuated what has changed in the last few years. Microsoft has supported IPv6—the next generation of the Internet Protocol—since its inception. We built support into the Windows stack, rearchitected our platform to enable developers to take advantage of IPv6, and over the past 10 years have been extending support across the company.
The Internet Protocol is the routing and transit protocol ...
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