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Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-09-27 21:20:52
On 2010-09-28 13:59, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:

So, I came across a interesting recent (June 24, 2010) article on the US
DoD's news site (http://www.defense.gov/news/), which quote Kris Strance,
"the chief of internet protocol for the [Dod]", as saying:

 "{the DoD} philosophy is one that when a component has a mission need or a
 business case to move to IPv6, then they can do that ... It's driven by
 their need rather than an overall [Department of Defense] mandate."

(The complete article is at: 
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59780

This seems a significant change in course from that given in the "Internet
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Interim Transition Guidance" of September 29, 2003,
which said that:

 "the DoD has established the goal of transitioning all DoD networking to
 the next generation of the Internet Protocol, IPv6, by fiscal year (FY)
 2008."

The date slippage is not a big deal, I'm ignoring that. What is of more
interest is that it appears (from the news story) that there has been a
further* change of course on IPv6 adoption, from 'we _are_ going to
transition' to 'in cases where there is a monetary or operational case to
convert, it will happen, but otherwise not'.

Does this surprise anyone with experience with the DOD ? It doesn't me.

It sound to me like a case for the phrase often used by my late colleague
Mervyn Hine at CERN, when the management performed a U-turn: "Aha! Reality has
broken in again."

The fact is that official mandates are not a very good reason for
upgrading systems. Running out of a resource is a much better one.
http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/

   Brian


Regards
Marshall 


Can anyone shed any light on this apparent change in policy?

     Noel

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* The only other policy course change I am aware of is the one from August
16, 2005 ("Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Policy Update"), which said
that:

 "... waiver submissions for programs not transitioning to IPv6 by FY2008.
 Henceforth, IPv6 waivers are not required by DoD CIO policy."

(The original September 29, 2003 policy had said "If the IPv6 capable
criteria {for any DoD acquistion} cannot be met, a waiver will be required.")

I suppose that technically the seeming current course fits within that 
updated
policy, but it still seems to be a change in emphasis and direction.
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