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U.S. DoD IPv6 Transition: All Deliberate Speed

William Jackson writes on GCN.com:

IPv6 is “absolutely essential” to the Defense Department, Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran told an audience at the U.S. IPv6 Summit in Reston, Va. But the Army’s vice director of command, control, communications and computers spent much of his keynote address Tuesday managing expectations about the department’s use of the next generation of Internet Protocols.

“We’re a conservative organization,” Moran said. “The DOD has a huge challenge in how we implement them.”

DOD in 2003 set a goal for making its network backbones IPv6 capable by 2008. Two years later, the Office of Management and Budget set the same goal for civilian agencies. Defense is on target to meet that deadline, Moran said, but having the ability to carry IPv6 packets on a network is a separate matter from employing IPv6 applications.

posted by Fergie @ 3/27/2007 12:44:00 PM