While it will be officially launched in December with new content, the portal's target completion date is not until November next year where it will become a place for allocations for IPv6 addresses.

Biber admitted IPv6 has been "over advertised" in the press as a panacea, but he stood firm in saying the technology is "definitely happening".

"It's the only alternative that is foreseeable [and] the only thing that will enable the Internet to scale," he said. "Anything that has electrons flowing through it will need an IP address."

Unlike the dawn of IPv4 network addressing, Biber said there will be a "period of transition" and 30 to 40 years of coexistence en route to IPv6.

Regarding infrastructure, Biber said at least 11 local carriers have started offering IPv6 native services, and all modern operating systems have IPv6 networking stacks built-in. Moreover, technical colleges are now teaching IPv6 networking skills as part of their courses.