Google, Facebook and Yahoo, are switching (as expected), as well as ISPs in more than 100 countries, Cisco, Akamai, Comcast and more are also switching.
Heres what you need to know:
It's necessary, because we're running out of space. The last blocks of 4.3 billion IP addresses enabled by the current Internet Protocol - IPv4 - were assigned in February 2011. Asia Pacific has already run out of room. Europe will run out of room this year. The U.S will run out of room next year.
The Internet of things depends on it. IPv6 provides more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses - Which is essentially an "unlimited number, "
This "holiday had to happen. For a while, we have known that we were going to run out of IP addresses but a few were willing to make the first move.
The internet will not break.
The new addresses are not virgin territory anymore. If you were hoping to somehow avoid distributed denial of service attacks with the switch. Then think again...
This is no hype; this is serious! Vint Cerf the Internet's Godfather says "it's not a technical freedom that's at stake - its a matter of avoiding state censorship, too.
You can test your iPv6 connectivity here.
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