THE GREAT DEBATE

Mr Kelly
In a speech delivered on Thursday 19th July 2012, Labour leader Ed Miliband MP questioned the ability of the private security industry to deliver against important police contracts, and reinforced the importance that core police functions should not be outsourced to the private sector.


Created 30 years ago, IPv4 has a 32-bit addressing scheme and can support approximately 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet. Well aware that IPv4 addresses would eventually run out, the IETF created IPv6 as an upgrade to IPv4. IPv6 features a 128-bit addressing scheme, supports a mind-numbing amount of devices and delivers much needed security and performance improvements. While the IPv6 protocol has been around for along time, forklift upgrades to IPv6 were (rightly) seen as expensive and time consuming without much practical benefit. However, with the 


