# IPv6 Launch Day

DevFeed: [IPv6 Launch Day](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ipv6-launch-day-33126.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/project-news/ipv6-launch-day/>)

Published: 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [Internet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/internet.md>), [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>)

Tags: [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [ipv6](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ipv6.md>), [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [services](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/services.md>), [websites](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/websites.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS participates in IPv6 Launch Day by enabling IPv6 access to its websites and services. IPv6 support within the ReactOS operating system itself remains a more difficult effort.

## Source excerpt

The foundation of the internet are IP addresses, which tell people how to reach websites and machines across the world. The current iteration, IPv4, is 32bits in size and the world is quickly running out of available addresses. As such, there has been a steady march towards IPv6, which uses 128bits for addresses. This march has however been slow due to the massive existing infrastructure that uses IPv4. To try and help get more organizations IPv6 ready, the Internet Society set up IPv6 Launch Day, intended to be a day where participating organizations permanently turn on access over IPv6 to their services.