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Feds Say They're Ready For Monday's IPv6 Deadline
netbuzz writes "By all indications and against all odds, it appears as though most, if not all, federal agencies will have met the mandate issued back in 2005 that their network backbones become capable of passing IPv6 packets by June 30, 2008. NetworkWorld quotes Pete Tseronis, chair of the IPv6 working group of the Federal CIO Council, saying, 'I have not heard of anybody who is not going to make the IPv6 deadline.' Those involved are calling this a significant milestone in what has been an extensive effort to bring IPv6 into widespread deployment."
More IP numbers for government. As if proof were needed that the size of government is growing out of control.
Take Nobody's Word For It.
6. I'm sure someone will profit.
They won't be able to profit at step 6 - they hit an infinite loop at step 5!
Hey, if the guy manages to connect to slashdot using a Commodore 64 in Uzbekistan, we should welcome him with open arms, whether he is a part of the unwashed masses or not.
Oh, he dreams of a Commodore 64 upgrade, as he boots his PET off of an old Sony walkman, at roughly the same pace as a modern JVM on good hardware.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
X = X+1, goto 1
Every time someone writes goto, a kitten dies.
Damn, I've done it.
The state you are in while your HEAD is detached... - wait, what?
Hi. Some of us don't like reading 96-word rambling sentences. Thanks.
Yes, but IPv4 commas and periods are in short supply.
== First cross river, then insult alligator.
This whole "OMG! We're going to run out of addresses (and ponies)" scare is starting to be more pathetic and fake than Nostradamus predictions!
Century 12, Quatrain 5 says:
Gore, of old, would tell that six is all
on the day the silver tubes stopped passing;
terrible anguish would ensue
as tube of you could not be contacted.
See. We're doomed.
Well gosh, if only there were some method to map those long numerical addresses to arbitrary strings of human-readable characters. Hey, you may have hit upon a great business opportunity there!