IPv6 address assignment

In the 1990s it became clear that the world would run out of IP addresses. A new version of the Internet Protocol was developed, known as IP version 6, or IPv6 for short. Starting in 1995 it began to be published as a series of draft RFCs, and vendors began to implement it. RFC 5211 , An Internet Transition Plan (2008), called for a switch over to IPv6 between January 2010 and December 2011. In…