The results of the test, called World IPv6 Day, may help encourage others to make the IPv6 upgrades. As part of the experiment, a number of organisations broadcast that their servers were available on IPv6. That meant anybody who had an IPv6 internet connection would get that version of the server rather than the usual IPv4 one.
"There is a great sense of relief that nothing bad happened," said Alain Durand, director of software engineering at network equipment Juniper Networks and a former IPv6 leader at Comcast and Sun . "It's a big sense now that IPv6 is a mature technology that is ready to be deployed."
Internet Protocol version 6 solves what has become a significant limitation of the present IPv4 technology: a dearth of new IP addresses that devices need to exchange information over the internet.
From: ZNET News
