Military Pressuring Vendors On IPv6

netbuzz writes "US military officials are threatening IT suppliers with the loss of military business if they don't use their own wares to start deploying IPv6 on their corporate networks and public-facing Web services immediately. 'We are pressing our vendors in any way we can,' says Ron Broersma, DREN Chief Engineer and a Network Security Manager for the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. 'We are competing one off against another. If they want to sell to us, we're asking them: Are you using IPv6 features in your own products on your corporate networks? Is your public Web site IPv6 enabled? We've been doing this to all of the vendors.'"

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Now if only the government would do that elsewhere

[erroneus]

I'm presently in a web developer course -- mostly because my company is paying for it and I will get some paper that can maybe help me change careers -- we don't need to talk about that unless you're just interested. But as I am in Northern Virginia, I meet a lot of people who work for government or contract for and around government. One of my classmates works for the department of state. This person has to deal with sharepoint. Not only does it depend on MSIE but it even breaks MSIE in some ways. (A site created to work with MSIE suddenly becomes weird when loaded into a Sharepoint server... yeah, I am sure a little knowledge and understanding could smooth the problem through, but damn! It's a web page. Should implementing HTML really require special knowledge of a special server? HTML was supposed to be a standard.) Anyway, the MSIE centric nature of government is beyond sickening to me. If the web development classes have taught me one thing, it's that Microsoft is harming the internet and the desktop in ways that people will simply never comprehend fully. It won't be until people finally overcome their dependency on Microsoft that people will begin to see... we're still a long way from that point, but we've made significant progress.