[aklug] Re: U.S. military strong-arming IT industry on IPv6

I'd more or less resigned myself that nobody is actually going to do anything until it actually breaks.

Linux kernels have, supposedly anyway, been ipv6 "ready" for years. Has it actually been tested in the real world?

What happens anyway? Is someone going to tell us sometime in the next 230 days that we are now ipv6? Do I have to do anything to my computers and stuff? I honestly don't know.

I've read recently that you can do ipv6 on Comcast's public beta. But that's only since Oct and they ain't here anyway.

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/371742-ipv6-6rd-linux-router-on-comcast-using-ubuntu-maverick-1010

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Jim Gribbin
Linux user #179129
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Tibor" <tibor@tibor.org>
To: aklug@aklug.org
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 10:53:18 PM
Subject: [aklug] Re: U.S. military strong-arming IT industry on IPv6
Heck, something needs to drive it.  IPv6 has stagnated for years.  The IT 
industry isn't going to migrate based on altruistic motives--it's always 
been based on when it would become financially beneficial to do so.  That 
shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone.  Business is always driven by 
the bottom line.  Those that aren't go out of business--it's that simple.
Realistically, it only appears that this is the DoD telling their vendors 
that if they market products using IPv6, then they'd better use it at some 
level.  This is NOT the DoD forcing the entire IT industry to become IPv6, 
no matter what the title of the article is.  It may develop to that over 
time, but that's completely different.
Even if IPv6 becomes prevelant or even mandatory on DoD networks, that 
certainly doesn't spell the demise of IPv4 on the commercial side.
Mike
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Jeff wrote:
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> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/122010-dod-strongarms-suppliers-on-ipv6.html?hpg1=bn
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