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How Feds are Dropping the Ball on IPv6

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-long-go-long dept.

BobB-NW writes "U.S. federal agencies have six months to meet a deadline to support IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol known as IPv4. But most agencies are not grabbing hold of the new technology and running with it, industry observers say. Instead, most federal CIOs are doing the bare minimum required by law to meet the IPv6 mandate, and they aren't planning to use the new network protocol for the foreseeable future."

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  1. Re:As things go ... by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 4, Funny

    But before that happens, we are going to hit peak oil anyway, and people will be too busy killing their neighbors with their bare fingernails to steal his tree bark to eat to worry about the fact that everyone in the family's laptops, palmtops and wired household appliances can't have their own IP addresses.

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  2. End of the internet... by Howitzer86 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So 2012 then?

    1. Re:End of the internet... by Kjella · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yep. That's when the IP counter will overflow, the Internet will segfault and kill itself. On reboot it'll ask for the root password but since Al Gore lost it, we just have to scrap everything and start over from scratch.

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  3. Expect propaganda about the Cisco Kid any day now. by infonography · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since Iraq and Afghanistan didn't go so well and Iran isn't popular expect the Bush administration to declare war on the 10.0.0.0 addresses.

    Banner to read TRANSMISSION ACCOMPLISHED

    I got the karma go ahead and troll me.

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