| Digital Agenda: Next Generation Internet Protocol takes off | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Thursday, June 07, 2012 - 03:58 PM | |||
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Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is formally launched worldwide today, coexisting alongside Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). Deploying IPv6 is a key action under the Digital Agenda for Europe (see IP/10/581, MEMO/10/199 and MEMO/10/200). This is because unless the existing Internet infrastructure is upgraded to IPv6, the Internet would slow down as a result of its own success, which would in turn lead to fewer possibilities to drive innovation in the field of new Internet services and applications. | ||
| Complete info at Europa and eGovMonitor. | |||