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    IPv6 is coming. It's only a matter of time. Here's a look at this new version of the Internet's most fundamental protocol, as well as a peek at the IPv6 support built into Windows XP and .NET and a list of applications that currently support IPv6.

  • U.S. threatens global IPv6 initiative

    As much of the world nears an Internet address crunch, North America stands as an island apart, threatening to fragment plans for the biggest overhaul of the Web in decades.

  • 2001: A tech odyssey

    Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, "2001: A Space Odyssey," showed a future that seemed distant enough to give us time to invent it. Sure enough (despite laggard progress into space), we've already grown used to everyday encounters with many of the movie's once-futuristic concepts, from handheld devices to supercomputers.

  • IPv6: time to change?

    Keeping the current version of Internet Protocol, the world will run out of IP addresses by 2007. So is it time to move to IPv6? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • Why the network will be the next computer

    This year's US-based NetWorld+Interop 2002 clarified the industry's push toward a global, unified network infrastructure, based on Internet protocols. The writing is on the wall: Go IP or you'll wind up on a dead end.

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  • IPv6: What is it and why is it needed?

    IPv6 is coming. It's only a matter of time. Here's a look at this new version of the Internet's most fundamental protocol, as well as a peek at the IPv6 support built into Windows XP and .NET and a list of applications that currently support IPv6.

  • IPv6: time to change?

    Keeping the current version of Internet Protocol, the world will run out of IP addresses by 2007. So is it time to move to IPv6? ZDNet Australia investigates.

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