Introduction
Due to the following recent events, the importance of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) to the future of the Internet and organization intranets is now without question:
On February 3, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) joined the Number Resources Organization (NRO), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and the Internet Society to announce that the pool of public Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Internet addresses has now been completely allocated. Public IPv4 address space still exists to be assigned to organizations by regional address authorities, but there is no more public IPv4 address space in reserve.
On June 8, 2011, Microsoft and other members of the Internet Society (ISOC) participated ...
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