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Federal Agencies Must Use IPv6 by 2008

Posted by Zonk on from the quick-turn-over dept.

MoiTominator writes "The White House Office of Management and Budget announced on Wednesday that all federal agencies must deploy IPv6 by June 2008. So far, Defense is the only agency which has made any progress toward implementing the new protocol." From the article: "While we know that IPv6 technologies are deployed throughout the government we do not know specifically which ones, how many there are, or precisely where they are located...For cost, the agencies must report on estimates for planning, infrastructure acquisition, training and risk mitigation."

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  1. Benefits of IPv6 by lw54 · · Score: 5, Informative
    IPv6 is a powerful enhancement to IPv4. Its primary features are as follows:
    • The larger address space provides new global reachability, flexibility, aggregation, multihoming, autoconfiguration, plug and play, and renumbering. IPv6 increases the IP address size from 32 bits to 128 bits, allowing more support for addressing hierarchical levels, a much greater number of addressable nodes, and simpler autoconfiguration of addresses.
    • The simpler, fixed-size header enables better routing efficiency, performance, and forwarding rate scalability.
    • The numerous possibilities to transition from IPv4 to IPv6 allow existing capabilities to exist with the added features of IPv6. Various mechanisms are defined for transitioning to IPv6, including dual stack, tunneling, and translation.
    • Mobility and security ensures compliance with Mobile IP and IP Security (IPSec) standards.

    Page 46, CCNP Self-Study, Paquet Teare

  2. Mac OSX has had great IPv6 for a while (10.2)! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mac OSX has had great IPv6 for a while (10.2)

    http://evanjones.ca/macosx-ipv6.html

    And the feds moved back their deadline so many times that even 2008 will be pushed back.

    Apple even had a demo of ipv6 in OS9 once, and a long while back was big on it.

    Most people, who enjoy semi-anon IP addresses from defacto forced reissue taht I know are against IPv6 and see it for all its regretful faults, despite its wonderful goals and alleged benefits.

    In an IPv6 world... there will be no more anononymity except at a WiFi cafe lacking video cameras.