{"id":116,"date":"2011-06-01T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/?p=116"},"modified":"2016-05-20T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T10:25:00","slug":"imperial-trialling-next-phase-of-internet-%e2%80%93-8-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/2011\/06\/01\/imperial-trialling-next-phase-of-internet-%e2%80%93-8-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial trialling next phase of internet \u2013 8 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The  Imperial website will be involved in a worldwide test on 8 June to  trial the next phase of the Internet \u2013 \u2018World IPv6 Day\u2019. This  twenty-four hour test window is being organised by the Internet Society  to assist with preparations for the impending exhaustion of the world&#8217;s  available Internet Protocol (IP) addresses &#8211; the network addresses used  by computers and other devices for communication over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The  solution to the depleted pool of IP addresses is the IPv6 network  protocol which will gradually replace the existing version of IP and  support a virtually unlimited number of devices on the Internet. The  transition to IPv6 is underway and on 8 June Google, Facebook, Yahoo and  many universities and other organisations will offer their content over  to IPv6, creating conditions that expose internet users to IPv6 on a  larger scale than ever before to reveal problems that may occur.<\/p>\n<p>The  main Imperial website will be taking part in the trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/ict\/ipv6day\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more about how you might be affected on the day and use a very simple test  in advance to see if you are likely to encounter problems here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Imperial website will be involved in a worldwide test on 8 June to trial the next phase of the Internet \u2013 \u2018World IPv6 Day\u2019. This twenty-four hour test window is being organised by the Internet Society to assist with preparations for the impending exhaustion of the world&#8217;s available Internet Protocol (IP) addresses &#8211; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/announcements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}