The European Network and Information Security Agency, Enisa, announced on Tuesday that it has become the first EU agency to begin offering services over version 6 of the Internet Protocol.
The organization is now offering its Web site content over IPv6, according to Enisa security tools expert Demosthenes Ikonomou, following the upgrading of its internal network to provide IP connectivity, DNS lookup and HTTP/S on the new protocol.
The move is part of the European Commission's IPv6 Action Plan, which sets out a number of steps toward the broad implementation of IPv6 by next year.
IPv6 is principally seen as a way of getting around limitations in the address space of IPv4, the version of Internet Protocol currently in wide use. By 2011 new IPv4 addresses will no longer be available, according to the EU.
The European Commission feels the public sector has an important role to play in helping drive IPv6 adoption, according to Ikonomou. "Customer demand, with the support of the public sector, plays the most important role in the introduction of IPv6," he told ZDNet Asia's sister site ZDNet UK.
Read more of "EU begins IPv6 rollout" from ZDNet UK.
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