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How Feds are Dropping the Ball on IPv6
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."
I think peak oil already happened mate. Where've you been for the last ten years?
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe
It's George Bush's fault. Everything is. Once he's gone - poof - we're all living into the nineties. Just you watch.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
That sounds like a long time to me.
IPv6 is just a bad idea until it's entirely backwards-compatible with IPv4. They keep telling us that IPv6 has enough IP addresses to give like 10 to every molecule of air or some crap, yet they can't fit the IPv4 address space in there anywhere? Really?
Right now, IPv6 is pointless as everything'll have to get translated to IPv4 to go out on the web anyway, at least for the vast majority of servers. Or does Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc all have IPv6 set up already?
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