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Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue
alphadogg writes "The Obama Administration bills itself as the most tech-savvy political team ever, but until now it has ignored one of the biggest issues facing the Internet: the rapid depletion of IPv4 Internet addresses and the imminent need for carriers and content providers to adopt IPv6. Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will host a workshop on IPv6 that features high-profile executives from government, industry and Internet policymaking organizations. Some observers are hoping the Obama Administration will use the workshop to issue a deadline for all federal agencies to support IPv6 on their public-facing Web sites."
If I was in the US Government I would lean on mobile vendors like Apple, Google, AT&T, etc to ONLY support IPv6 for mobile devices (e.g. Android, iPhone, etc). That way you start to carve out a real consumer base with IPv6. If web-sites want to get iPhone users to their service they better support IPv6 ASAP.
Microsoft already has strong IPv6 support in Windows as does Linux. So there is no reason why ISPs couldn't switch over at any time but the issue is a chicken and egg problem with it being expensive and no consumers caring.
I'm sure Fox News will bill it as Obama trying to take over the internet. Your IP address will have to face a death panel!
It's FAUX news - as in fake news.
I hate them.
But I love Obama.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Yeah but think of the alternatives, we could have had that Bush kid win, and gotten in 2 wars, a huge deficit, lost a great number of personal freedoms in the name of security, etc.
Just look at what the onion predicted! http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros,464/
I shudder to think of what it could have looked like.
(Yeah I had to much kharma, and couldn't resist.)
a handful of selfish greedy people are no match for millions of selfish, greedy people -u4ya
In that case I'd refer you to Obama's illegal use of executive authority to ignore federal law and give the UAW a windfall at the expense of the preferred creditors.
When it really comes down to it there is no difference between those two presidents.