The ITU needs to act swiftly to level the playing field with respect to the Internet and the IPv4/IPv6 transition. The historic trends in past allocation of IPv4 will result in a challenging situation for developing countries when IPv4 runs out in the next two years, as additional IPv4 address space for continued Internet growth in their ecnonomies will not be available, and the emergance of transfer markets will allow more established countries to continue to grow via IPv4... This effectively transfers the early adopter burden to the less resourced developing countries and is contrary to basic values adopted by the UN and ITU in supporting developing countries in achieving their ICT goals. The only way to avoid this situation is for the ITU, a treaty organization with the appropriate charter in this area, to clearly state that the Internet is both IPv4 and IPv6 as of a specific date (e.g. Jan 1, 2012). This would be followed by directives to all ITU members that Internet resources (i.e. web servers) should be connected via *both* IPv4 and IPv6 by this date, so that all economies can efficiently connect to new constituents to the Internet via either IPv4 or IPv6 at that time. Only the ITU has the charter which enables it to definitively set this transition, and by doing so it insures that the established issues with previous IPv4 allocation do not pose a burden for developing countries going forward.