The infamous Y2K bug came and went with minimal damage and inconvenience, but much of this result is credited to substantial preparatory efforts. Billions of dollars was poured into the remediation of the ill‐considered design fault of the two digit year. The current version of IP (v4) also seems to have an ill-­considered design fault, due largely to the early internet architects failing to predict the internet to grow to its current levels. The pending run-out of unique addresses has been brought about by the massive explosion in the volumes of data and the number of devices now connected to the internet. With less than one year before the supply of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses runs out, anxiety and concern are increasingly evident.Resembling the more widespread commentary seen during the lead up to the tick­‐over of the last century, there is tangible concern with the potential impact when the last 6% of unique IP addresses are finally allocated in 2012. Whilst the response to the issue is well underway amongst vendors, services providers and many enterprises, there is still evidence that implementation is occurring too slowly to address the issue in the time available. And whilst there are many enterprises who have not yet developed a strategy or action plan, the lead-by-example AGIMO had commenced their IPv6 changeover strategy in 2008 and as a result are now well on track to have the federal government IPv6 compliant by the end of 2012 as scheduled. The time to start mobilising with IPv6 strategies is now...