With a federal mandate in place and an expected address crunch looming, is the country any further ahead in adopting IPv6?
The U.S. government operates one of the largest technology infrastructures on Earth, and it’s all supposed to be IPv6-ready.
At least, that was the plan.
A three-year-old mandate for IPv6 usage, put into place by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), went into effect June 30. That order required all government agencies to have the ability to transmit IPv6 (define), the next generation of the Internet Protocol at the heart of online communications.
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