Why the need for IPv6?

• IPv4 cannot address the Internet’s expoential and continual growth

• Issues raised from RFC1380:

  • Class B network exhaustion
  • Routing Table Explosion
  • Limited security
  • Need for new data flows

• According to the IETF, the “Date of Doom” where the Internet would have used all the available TCP/IP addresses was March 1994.

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