Top Tech News : The New Internet Protocols: What Users Should Know

" Many web surfers don't know it, but the introduction of new Internet address standards might change the way they get online.
Since the supply of useable addresses governed by the IPv4 standard (Internet protocol, version 4) has been exhausted, IPv6 has now been introduced. This will allow a previously impossible variety of addresses, says Christoph Meinel, a professor at Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute." ~unlisted

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This is just a basic question and answer about the conversion from what we are using now, to what we will be using very soon. Hopefully the ISPs will keep their word and make it as smooth as possible from their side to the consumers.