Sify, yesterday has become first commercial content portal in India to be IPv6 enabled making Sify first to leave 20 years old IPv4 technology and deploy IPv6 technologies and its associated services in India. Apparently in India before Sify there seems to be only one IPv6 enabled website which is - IPv6 test network at BITS, Pilani, though not being commercial, Sify now become one of the first such service for public. IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, such as the limited number of available IPv4 addresses along with other improvements such as routing, networking and auto configuration. From now onwards, Sify's entire suite of IP connectivity services, including Internet access to enterprise customers and MPLS-based IP-VPN services are IPv6 enabled. This ensures that Sify's customers can transition and migrate from a basic IPv4 based network service to IPv6 Next Generation Network with dual-stack i.e. IPv6 & IPv4 support.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the rejuvenation work to be implemented till year 2009 and that would be taken as biggest expansion in last 40 years in Internet, since its inception. ICANN has approved some recommendations that bring out the more of internet for people to express themselves. Below are some recommendation; New strings in domains TLDs (Top Level Domains) from presently .com, .org or .edu etc. to any user choice such as .YourCompanyName or .music for music industry or .brandName for any company brand or even your name like www.website.ramanarayan. New scripts/ languages support for domains, URI to be written in and that would extended to world's languages which will important for future of internet in Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia. The Hint is that it can be written in these region's languages respectively, from presently 37 Roman characters only. Presently users have 21 Top Level Domains (TLDs) to chose from, soon after this expansion the users can have self chosen TLDs to name their domains, unless these TLDs are not offensive based on public morality and order. It is expected that ICANN will accept applications for new names in the second quarter of 2009. Importantly, ...