Security Considerations for IPv6 Launch Day

"In case you haven't been glued to the Internet Society (ISOC) website, there soon will be some rather large changes to the Internet as the much anticipated World IPv6 Launch day arrives on June 6. I see this as much more hype than operationally a change.

While many large organizations have hooked their plans on change over to the ISOC launch date, legions of companies have already been leveraging IPv6 WAN connectivity. Most mobile providers who have adopted LTE 4G infrastructures have built around this networking principle already with mobile devices, by default, connecting to the Internet via IPv6 assignments..."

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Other articles in the IT - Networks section of Volume 171, Issue 5:

Security Considerations for IPv6 Launch Day (this article)
With IPv6 Being Turned On, Is Keeping Ipv4 a Bad Idea?

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