This is a crucial issue for evolution and expansion of the Internet. Along with many others in the Internet community, ICANN is acting to enable IPv6 services throughout the domain name system, including encouraging all providers of domain name services to implement IPv6 capability. Already five root name server operators have added IPv6 addresses to their root zone records, enabling IPv6 DNS resolution. ICANN has produced a factsheet on IPv6 that is available at
Http://www.icann.org/announcements/factsheet-ipv6-26oct07.pdf [PDF, 405K].