DNS root servers finally support IPv6.
Paul Twomey, president of Icann, said: “There’s pressure for people to make the conversion to IPv6. We’re pushing this as a major issue.”
The reason for the urgency, he said, was because the unallocated addresses from the total of 4,294,967,296 possible with IPv4 was rapidly running out.
“We’re down to 14% of the unallocated addresses out of the whole pool for version 4,” he said.
Some people say that is too late. The net’s current addressing scheme is expected to exhaust the pool of unallocated addresses by 2011.
In: BBC.co.uk