Regulator TRAI Recommends Transition From IPv4 To IPv6

CIOL: India’s telecom regulator the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued recommendations to the government on transition from IPv4 to IPpv6.
In a letter addressed to the Department of Information Technology (DIT), TRAI has recommended the government to encourage IPv6 deployment in the country. According to TRAI the existing version of Internet protocol, IPv4 is considered to be lagging behind in meeting the increased demand of IP addresses and support for quality of service, mobility and security.
In the letter addressed to Secretary DIT, Brijesh Kumar TRAI suggested that IPv6, which is the next generation Internet protocol, has capacity to expand the available address space on the Internet enormously in addition to providing better support for quality of service, mobility support and security. It said that the definition of IP address mentioned in ISP license was to be amended to enable 128 bits to be used as needed for IPv6 based addressing, in place of 32 bits at present.

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