IPv6 Support

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Hey,

I just wanted to ask the community if there are any plans to make ROS support the IPv6 stack? I think it would make certain setups much easier.

$ rosrun rviz rviz
[ INFO] [1322732482.079127983]: rviz revision number 1.6.7
[ INFO] [1322732482.079207093]: ogre_tools revision number 1.6.2
[ INFO] [1322732482.079243271]: compiled against OGRE version 1.7.3 (Cthugha)
Couldn't find an AF_INET address for [XXXX.ipv6.XXXX.com]
Couldn't find an AF_INET address for [XXXX.ipv6.XXXX.com]

$ rostopic list
ERROR: Unable to communicate with master!

$ ping6 XXXX.ipv6.XXXX.com
PING XXXX.ipv6.XXXX.com(2a01:xxx:xxx:xx::x) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2a01:xxx:xxx:xx::x icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=32.0 ms
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