Long-term Solution
The deployment of IPv6 is the only available solution to the IPv4 address shortage. IPv6 is endorsed and implemented by all Internet technical standards bodies and network equipment vendors. It encompassed many design improvements, including the replacement of the 32-bit IPv4 address format with a 128-bit address for a capacity of about 3.4×1038 addresses. IPv6 has been in active production deployment since June 2006, after organized worldwide testing and evaluation in the 6bone project ceased.
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