Incidentally, today was my first time accessing the Internet with an IPv6 address. This week my company was allocated a /48 IPv6 block by our ISP and last night we finished setting up our network. I can't help but to remember the first time I surfed the web back in 1997.

The first thing I noticed is that there are much more websites that are not yet accessible through IPv6 than those that are. Cisco, Google and Yahoo! are, of course, among the ones that are accessible. But I was shocked when I couldn't access Amazon or HP.

For some people, this move to an "infinite" address space may be just a technical issue. But I believe it has great significance, in particular for the IoE. Starting tomorrow I'm assigning an IPv6 address to every single device that will allow it, starting with my Raspberry Pi.