The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has taken its first steps towards implementing the next generation of internet protocol (IP), by adding IPv6 addresses to the DNS root server system. IPv6 can provide trillions more addresses than the IPv4 standard currently in use today. The upgrade from IPv4 was spurred by concerns that some countries will exhaust their supply of IP addresses in the very near future.
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ICANN Takes First Steps Toward IPv6
Posted by: Robert Jaques July 22, 2004 09:30 AMThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has taken its first steps towards implementing the next generation of internet protocol (IP), by adding IPv6 addresses to the DNS root server system. IPv6 can provide trillions more addresses than the IPv4 standard currently in use today. The upgrade from IPv4 was spurred by concerns that some countries will exhaust their supply of IP addresses in the very near future.