Owen DeLong, IPv6 evangelist at Hurricane Electric, had a Q and A session with the New York Times about IPv6 Day and what IPv6 means for the future of the internet.
What is IPv6?
Every device that connects to the Internet has an address, called an IP address (for Internet protocol), which comes in a string of numbers. IPv6 is a new protocol for Internet addresses. The old protocol, known as IPv4, was designed to accommodate labs, universities and the military, when the Internet was being developed. That was an experimental Internet that only had 3.2 billion addresses — nowhere near enough for today’s exploding number of Web-connected computers, smartphones, tablets and game consoles.
