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Re: IPv6 connectivity mandates?

  • From: Jeroen Massar
  • Date: Mon Jan 07 22:11:10 2008
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Justin M. Streiner wrote:

Given all of the discussion about IPv6 on this last over the past several weeks, I figured I'd chum the waters a bit more :) This is mainly for people working in colleges and universities, but could apply to ISP/NSPs as well.

Has anyone seen any indication that, given the US government's push to deploy IPv6, they will start (or perhaps they've started already?) writing mandates for applicant networks to have IPv6 connectivity into the requirements for federally funded grants?

Yes, and the RPF's are downloadable from the various .gov sites. It just depends on which market/business/... one is in.

Is anyone seeing anything similar outside of the United States?

Asian countries do it a lot (India*, Japan, Korea, China from the top of my head). Also read up at http://www.ipv6style.jp/en/ for instance which carries a lot of actually interesting original articles. Oh and yes, there is reason to learn Japanese: one can actually then keep up with all the real cool new toys on this planet ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

* = http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/national/stories/129729.html
google(ipv6 site:circleid.com) and others

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