IPv6 has existed for many years but has yet to take off in most parts of the world. In the US the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is strongly pushing it through and has recently brought online half a dozen new root DNS servers to meet the needs of the IPV6 requests. The greatest advantage that this will grant to IPv6 is the possibility for and IPv6 host to connect to another IPv6 host without the need to resolve a address with an older Ipv4 server. This is not transparent as it relies on a host being able to be accessible via IPv6.

In the article it mentions four of the five Regional Internet Registries were accessible via IPv6, but the largest one in the U.S., American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) was not – due to ARIN not yet operating public IPv6 name servers. This is encouraging for small organisations who are looking to adopt the new protocol.

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