A number of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), hardware makers and websites, including a few from India, will start running IPv6, a new generation Internet protocol, permanently from June 6. It is part of a global effort to move away from the IPv4 regime that now rules the cyberspace.
But the ‘World IPv6 Launch,' being spearheaded by the global non-profit organisation, Internet Society, will make little difference to most users for, they will most probably continue to use IPv4 by default, as the switch to IPv6 is possible only when their computers, the networks and the content and service providers are ready for it.
Version 4 is made up of a set of numbers that helps to identify web addresses, facilitating communication from one point to the other. With the rapid expansion of Internet, the sets of numbers that could be used as digital addresses started getting exhausted. This necessitated a new version that offers an almost inexhaustible address pool.
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