Responding to an exponential increase in demand for new IP addresses, the IETF has completed revisions to the IP address as IP version 6, also known as IPng (ng = Next Generation). This publication addresses timely administrators and engineers need to know how the impact of their corporate IP network 6 * Ideal for companies planning a gradual migration from IP 4 to IP 6 * Timely publication: IETF Standards were completed in early 1999 and will begin to be implemented in late 1999/2000. In particular, this will include how to: * Increase the size of an IP address from 32 bits to 128 bits * Support more levels of addressing hierarchy * Support increased number of addressable nodes * Support simple auto-configuration addresses * Improving the scalability of multicast routing by adding a "scope" field to multicast addresses * Use the "anycast address" has to send packets to one of a group of nodes