The IPv6 Forum hosted an event at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to demonstrate how IPv6 is becoming a reality for everyday applications. IPv6 enables a massive increase in available IP addresses, from 200 million or so assignable IPv4 addresses to trillions of trillions, as well as improving security, mobility, accountability through end-to-end addressing, and customizability through versatile, chainable packet headers. Some observations from the IP Forum:
- Sony has mandated that all of its products be IPv6 enabled by 2005
- the average home contains 250 devices that someday could be connected to the Internet via IPv6, according to Connexion by Boeing
- 2004 will see 1.3 billion mobile phones, 750 million vehicles and tens of millions of other mobile platforms, all of which can be Net-connected through IPv6.
- a new 6Wi-Fi standard is being developed to allow roaming between hotspots and cellular networks.
