A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

Most of us live our digital lives behind a layer of Network Address Translation (NAT), where dozens of devices share a single public IPv4 address at home. IPv6 was officially standardized in 2017, 22 ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

You’ve probably heard about the looming shortage of Internet addresses, even if you’ve never gone looking for one. But depending on what websites you visit and how you get to them, you may be helping ...

Support for IPv6 has grown by almost 20 times in the past year by one measure, but most websites still can’t be reached without IPv4, the current Internet Protocol, which is near running out of ...

I think this deserves it's own thread - it doesn't seem like anyone, including Ars, is reporting on IPv6 anymore, but per Google's per-country IPv6 traffic analysis page, I went and checked today and ...