IPv6 test day Just Around the Corner

World IPv6 day is scheduled to be held on June 8th,2011 and is sponsored by the Internet  Society (ISOC). The event mainly is a global scale test flight for the IPv6 and will start at midnight (GMT) of 8th  June for a period of around 24 hours.





Several Big companies will participate for the test including Google,Facebook,Yahoo and many other companies, will change their IP address from IPv4 to IPv6 for a period of 24 hours simultaneously at the same time. This test of the new IPv6 will provide real-world data for  hardware manufacturers, Internet Service Providers,Operating system vendors and for all the participating Web companies.
It is believed that IPv4 will saturate in the near future and even if its used ,will provide much security risk of managing or blocking a single malicious IP address that may be shared by thousands of genuine users.
What does it mean for you??…Well not much , the test is basically carried out in a controlled manner such that the problems are found and corrected.So a very few errors are expected for the big company sites while testing ,but it wont effect the average user much in terms of latency and might go unnoticed.