World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour trial of next-generation Internet services, is going as smoothly as participating websites had hoped, sparking comparisons to the dawn of the new millennium passing without any Y2K-related incidents.

As this large-scale experiment draws to a close, no major outages or security breaches were reported at the 400-plus corporate, government and university websites participating in the IPv6 trial.

DETAILS: World IPv6 Day: Tech industry's most-watched event since Y2K

IPv6 is a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. IPv6 features an expanded addressing scheme to allow vastly more devices to be attached directly to the Internet, but it is not backward compatible with IPv4.

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