Introduction of this technology has been delayed t
Introduction of this technology has been delayed to anywhere from 2011 to 2017, depending on reclamation of unused networks.  Established as a standard under RFC 1752 and originally known as Next Generation, it allows for stateless autoconfiguration of hosts using ICMP, and can be used in combination with DHCP when required.  The scheme designed under this standard continues the use of prefix notiaton, using /128 to identify individual hosts, and allows for use of a double colon to replace a set of four contiguous zeroes.  The need for deployment was delayed following the introduction and extensive use of both CIDR ("cider") and PAT.  Exclusive communication using this protocol was allowed for the first time in February 2008, as six of the root DNS servers received quad-A records.  Designed by the IETF, this is, FTP, what 128-bit network-layer protocol set to replace the current addressing scheme for the Internet?
Introduction of this technology has been delayed to anywhere from 2011 to 2017, depending on reclamation of unused networks.  
Internet Protocol version 6 or IPv6  [prompt on partial answer]