If I say internet is running out of IPs, you might respond with "so whats new?". Whether you like it or not, this time its for real . While IPv4/8 blocks might be gone by the end of this year, it doesn't mean IPv6 trasition needs to happen right away. Fortunately, unlike the Y2K problem, we have a lot of tools and means to make this transition less painful by making it happen over an extended period of time. Most of the larger organizations have been testing IPv6 for years . And thanks to Apple , Microsoft , linux developers and other industry leaders , the latest versions of the most popular operating systems come preconfigured to work with IPv6. Whats missing, unfortunately, is the human element of this transition. Training the core network operators on IPv6 related issues isn't enough. Nor is it enough for all the softwares to support it. Every developer, engineer and users on all the 7 layers of the OSI stack has to understand it well enough to be able to troubl