With the imminent exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, the switch to IPv6 is something important that service providers around the world should be worried. It is projected that by the end of the year since the addresses are exhausted, which makes the transition required. To publicize this problem ISOC created the IPv6 World Day, which is a day for all providers, servers and general users to test compatibility with the new address.
Scheduled for next week, precisely on June 8, the IPv6 World Day will serve to measure how effective the IPv6 as the protocol to enable large-scale providers of Internet servers and large portals around the world will generate a higher data traffic than the current one and which can be measured and analyzed accurately.
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There were big Web companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook have already confirmed participation. Here in Brazil, only the portal Terra was confirmed, but has since entered the list Nomer, Campus Party and to the IG, which was able to buy the domain IPv6.com.br in mid-1999 and recently put on the air, with a page of information.
If you want to join in the fun day, learn how to get a free IPv6 to test and how to set it in another post.