IPv6
Version 6 of the Internet Protocol
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| November 2020 |
Thread
Apple released its first Thread product, the HomePod Mini, marking its entry into the Thread networking protocol ecosystem.
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| 2019 |
Thread
The Connected Home over IP (CHIP) project was announced, later renamed to Matter, which involved a collaborative effort by the Zigbee Alliance (now Connectivity Standards Alliance), Google, Amazon, and Apple to create an open-source, royalty-free standard for home connectivity using Thread, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy protocols.
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| November 25 2019 | RIPE NCC announced it had fully exhausted its IPv4 addresses and called for increased adoption of IPv6. |
| 2018 | Only 25.3% of approximately 54,000 autonomous systems advertised both IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes in the global Border Gateway Protocol routing database. |
| August 2018 |
Thread
Apple joined the Thread Group, expanding the alliance's membership and industry reach.
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| July 2014 |
Thread
Thread Group alliance was formed as an industry group to develop, maintain, and drive adoption of Thread networking standard for IoT applications. Initial members included ARM Holdings, Big Ass Solutions, NXP Semiconductors/Freescale, Nest Labs, OSRAM, Samsung, Silicon Labs, Somfy, Tyco International, Qualcomm, and Yale.
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| 2011 | All major operating systems for personal computers and servers achieved production-quality IPv6 implementations. |
| February 2011 | The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last unassigned top-level address blocks of 16 million IPv4 addresses to the five regional Internet registries (RIRs). |
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