2012 CE
Permanent IPv6 deployment
Information & communication · Technology · Infrastructure
World IPv6 Launch coordinated providers, websites, and manufacturers to enable IPv6 permanently. The new protocol expanded the address space of Internet infrastructure and coexisted with IPv4 through an uneven transition, so it was not an instant change for every network or user.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- www.internetsociety.org (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2012-06-06
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2025-11-13
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
The correspondence between this reference and individual claims has not yet been itemized.
This record is an editorial synthesis. Consult the sources to check claims and their limits. Chronological relationships alone do not establish causation.