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June 8, 2011 is an historic day for the Internet. On that day, a number of the world’s major Internet service companies began to replace the old standard of Internet addressing (IPv4) to the latest generation of the IPv6.

Excerpted from the World IPv6 Day, June 9, 2011, companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, Meebo, Plurk, Bing, is a giant virtual world that is ready to provide their services via IPv6. In total, there are 434 institutions that conduct testing for 24 hours.

According Darric Hor, General Manager of PT Symantec Indonesia in his written statement, one of the objectives of the experiment the transition is to motivate other organizations across the industry.

As known, internet service provider (ISP), hardware maker, maker of operating systems and web companies need to prepare their IPv6 services. This is to ensure successful transition after the IPv4 addresses that have been used since 1983 been used, circa 2012.

As an illustration, using the old method of IP addressing (IPv4), can only exist 4,294,967,296 IP addresses that can be used all over the world. While IPv6 (implemented from 1999) offer for 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IP addresses.

“The problem, the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 be a great opportunity for the makers of malware and other cyber criminals in an attack,” said Darric. “In addition, the adoption of IPv6 is also potentially cause other problems,” he said.

Software and hardware firewalls, Darric said, can be penetrated if they are not able to detect and inspect traffic coming from IPv6. “When switching to IPv6 protocol, we face the conditions in which we need to learn a new threat, which is currently not obvious,” he said.

For that, Darric suggested at each actor in the Internet industry and users to always be updating their security applications including firewalls to ensure that the threat will be present to diminmalisir.

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