Increased Support for Standards
Windows Server 2008 introduced several industry standards built in to the Windows operating system that have since been updated in Windows Server 2012. These changes continue a trend of the Windows operating system supporting industry standards rather than proprietary Microsoft standards. One of the key standards built in to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 is IPv6.
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the future Internet standard for TCP/IP addressing. Most organizations support IPv4. The current Internet numbering scheme is running out of address space, and so Internet communications of the future need to support IPv6, which provides a more robust address space.
In addition, IPv6 supports new standards ...
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