IPv4 Is Only the Experimental Version of the Internet!

 

 

 

There is one more reason why we need to stop using IPv4: It's Only the Experimental Version of the Internet!

According to Vint Cerf, one of  the “fathers of the Internet”, who told the audience at a recent Google+ Hangouts discussing about the Internet’s past, present, and future, the IPv4 that we are using today is only “the experimental version of the Internet” and it was somehow leaked out to the rest of the world from his original experiment. If that is the case, who wants to run a non-production version of software in its production environment?!

Accordingly, the current global adoption of IPv6, “the production version of the Internet”, is not only logical and rational, but also prudent and critical for the future of the Internet!

Here are five reasons why we should move entirely to IPv6:

1.      Pending depletion of all IPv4 addresses

2.      Mandate by new U.S. Federal Acquisition Regulation

3.      Additional security threat with dual-stack mode

4.      Prerequisite for the Internet of Things

5.      Migration to the production version of Internet Protocol (IPv6) from the experimental version (IPv4)

 

Refer to my article on StopUsing Internet Protocol Version 4! for more details on the other four reasons why we should adopt IPv6 globally now.

 

Disclaimer: The views presented are only personal opinions and they do not necessarily represent those of the U.S. Government.