Whenever we publish stories about the IPv4 address depletion or IPv6, people make comments along the lines of "does MIT really need a class A IPv4 block with 16,777,216 addresses?" Apparently Interop, ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

Network engineer Ben Cox wrote in a blog post that in some circumstances, the 'Class E space,' which is in a state of standardization limbo, could be used to fill the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. IP ...

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is here for real. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has set a deadline of Sept. 30 for government agencies to give employees the capability to access the ...

Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu's founder, explained that "one of the real frustrations of the container generation... is a shortage of easily accessible IP addresses." Shuttleworth continued, ...

I am glad that Ars is continuing coverage on IPv6. I was wondering, though, if it would be possible to write an "end-to-end" IPv6 guide. Based on tangential remarks made in Ars pieces on IPv6, it ...