This Wednesday, June 8, marks the World Day of IPv6, when it will be experienced on a global scale, the new internet protocol. In Brazil, the day of testing IPv6 starts this Tuesday at 21h, ending up fourth at 21h (8). For 24 hours, leading provider of web sconteúdos will offer their services using both IPv4 and IPv6. While there may be occasional complications, Telefonica estimates that only 0.05% of Internet users can register a problem of access to the network during the testing period.
Check your your PC is ready for the World Day of IPv6
The Earth is the first Brazilian portal to engage with the World Day of IPv6. Also part of the initiative's other big market players like Google and Yahoo, Internet service providers, device manufacturers and operating systems and network operators, who first collaborated to detect possible flaws in the functioning of IPv6, and make users become aware of the impending change will happen on the network.
Few addresses
In countries like China - where the Internet is growing very quickly - or Japan, among other Asian and African nations change is an increasingly urgent as they are places with few assigned IP addresses.
And the day of testing does not reflect any improvisation: it works on the development of IPv6 since 1992 and since 1999 there is the IPv6 Forum. The Internet Society is coordinating the global test of IPv6.
The engineers created a system called NAT so that the numbers of users can access IPv4 sites developed with the new IPv6 protocol, but caution that it could count on all the new features.
New customers will be the first operators to benefit from the new numbers and new routers, but for older users are expected during a transition period. In addition, new customers with IPv6 will also have a system to access web pages designed in IPv4.
The new protocol is essential for the internet to continue growing, since last February in the corporation that sets out the numbers from the internet (the ICAAN) announced that the last five blocks of addresses to access the current protocol (IPv4) will be exhausted at the end this year.
