Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Surprise! DoD 'Scaling Back' Expectations for Migration to IPv6

I wander when they'll realize that there is no compelling reason to migrate to v6?

William Jackson writes in GCN.com:

The Defense Department is scaling back expectations for its 2008 move to version 6 of the Internet Protocols.

“I don’t think we’re going to make that transition date,” said Kris Strance, a senior analyst in the Defense CIO office.

The original fiscal 2008 deadline was for a full DOD transition to IPv6. Strance said during a security conference Tuesday hosted by the eGov Institute that the department would first move its network backbones to the new protocols.

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