本白皮书是ATIS IPv6准备计划研究组（AIRP-SG）的产品，该研究组是为响应行业需求而开发的？鉴于ATIS IPv6任务组（IPv6 TF）之前的报告，以及美国互联网号码注册中心（ARIN）在2007年6月发布的IPv4地址即将耗尽的公告，s需要为过渡到IPv6提供指导。本白皮书旨在供各种组织（服务提供商、企业、网络提供商等）使用，作为组织评估当前能力的工具，以确定实现IPv6就绪的步骤，并为组织提供利用定义的就绪级别说明IPv6就绪的方法。

This whitepaper is the product of ATIS IPv6 Readiness Plan Study Group (AIRP-SG), developed in response to the industry?s need to for guidance to transition to IPv6, in light of the previous reports produced by the ATIS IPv6 Task Force (IPv6-TF) and the public announcement in June 2007 by the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) that the exhaust of IPv4 addresses is imminent. This whitepaper is intended to be used by a variety of organizations (service providers, enterprise, network providers, etc) as a tool for organizations to make an assessment of current capabilities, to identify steps towards IPv6 readiness, and provide means for organizations to illustrate IPv6 readiness utilizing defined levels of readiness.