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Obama Highlights IPv6 Issue

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the has-strong-pro-vi-stance-too dept.

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."

2 of 442 comments (clear)

  1. NAT by FuckingNickName · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we at least all agree that NAT is evil, and destroys one of the nicest features of TCP/IP (and a free Internet): it creates a network of peers?

  2. Re: tech-savvy by Dan667 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    how does delusional hoping for the rapture do for leadership?