Facebook Enables IPv6 For Developers May 18
The next generation Internet protocol, IPv6, is coming to Facebook a few weeks early -- for developers, that is.
The next generation Internet protocol is coming to Facebook a few weeks early — for developers, that is.
Developers will be able to begin tinkering with the IPv6 version of Facebook on May 18, to prepare for the Internet’s global upgrade to the broader set of addresses on June 6.
Facebook had participated in a test of this new protocol one year prior, on June 8, 2011. IPv6 will provide more than four billion times as many addresses as the current IPv4 (The number skips because the experimental protocol IPv5 proved unfit to launch).
Here’s what Facebook’s developer blog has to say about the coming launch of the advanced Internet addresses:
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in