World IPv6 Day
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World IPv6 Day is an event sponsored and organized by the Internet Society and several large content providers to test public IPv6 deployment.[1] It started at 00:00 UTC on June 8, 2011 and will end 23:59 the same day.[2] The main motivation for the event is to evaluate the real world effects of the IPv6 brokenness seen by various synthetic tests. To this end, during World IPv6 Day major web companies and other industry players have enabled IPv6 on their main websites for 24 hours. The goal is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 address space runs out.[3]The test primarily consists of websites publishing AAAA records, allowing IPv6 capable hosts to connect using IPv6. Although Internet service providers (ISP) have been encouraged to participate, they are not expected to deploy anything active on that day, just increase their readiness to handle support issues.
Many companies and organisations have committed to participating in the experiment, including the largest search engines, social networking websites and internet backbone & content distribution networks.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ "About World IPv6 Day".
- ^ "World IPv6 Day - How to Participate". Internet Society. Retrieved 26 January 2011.
- ^ "Corporate reasons to move to IPv6".
- ^ "World IPv6 Day - List of Participants". Internet Society. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
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