Ahhh yes, Colorado Springs, CO. Ol' Horsey has been out there a few times. You mentioned NORAD which overlooks a very nice resort called the Cheyenne Mountain Resort. At night you can see the pretty antenna farm light up the sky atop of NORAD. Hehe. Anyway, old memories...

IPv6 is not a Microsoft incarnation. As Phissy has noted, the IETF drafted the standard back when the fear of running out of IPv4 addresses was floating around. NAT and CIDR of course have changed all this.