[Chapter-delegates] Internet Society of NY seeks info on IPv6 implementation

[David Solomonoff]

On Wednesday the following article appeared on Ars Technica regarding 
IPv6 implementation. I'd like to post something on the the ISOC-NY 
website about this but I can't find the actual announcement or any more 
details. Can you help?

Thanks,

David

IPv6: coming to a root server near you

By Iljitsch van Beijnum | Published: January 02, 2008 - 11:43PM CT

Just before year's end, ICANN/IANA sent out a short message saying that 
"on 4 February 2008, IANA will add AAAA records for the IPv6 addresses 
of the four root servers whose operators have requested it." The 
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is mostly 
responsible for the global Domain Name System, the Internet Assigned 
Numbers Authority (IANA) is the part of ICANN. That means that as of 
February 4, 2008, it will (theoretically) be possible for two IPv6 hosts 
to communicate across the IPv6 Internet without having to rely on any 
IPv4 infrastructure. It's been a long journey to get to this point ....

Full article:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080102-icann-to-add-ipv6-addresses-for-root-dns-servers.html

-- 
David Solomonoff
President
Internet Society of New York
president at isoc-ny.org
http://isoc-ny.org