IPv6 is the successor to IPv4. IPv4 and IPv6 are the internet protocols that all networks use to communicate. IPv4 is still dominate today on the internet.

by Geoff Huston, APNIC In this article I examine the topic that was discussed in a session at the 74th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in March 2009, about Address Sharing (the SHARA BOF)[0], and look at the evolution of Network Address Translation (NAT) architectures in the face of the forthcoming depletion [...]

by Geoff Huston, APNIC In this article I examine the topic that was discussed in a session at the 74th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in March 2009, about Address Sharing (the SHARA BOF)[0], and look at the evolution of Network Address Translation (NAT) architectures in the face of the forthcoming depletion [...]