Hi,
Latest adoption of IPv6 announced at the Pentagon.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59244,00.html

Rgds,
Sai

Pentagon to Use New Net Protocol
Reuters 01:40 PM Jun. 13, 2003 PT
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department said on Friday it planned to link
its high-tech weaponry, battlefield sensors and other communications
systems to an upgraded Internet operating system within five years.

John Stenbit, the Pentagon's chief information officer, said the current
system, which the Defense Department helped develop decades ago, was too
limited to meet the needs of today's technology-driven armed forces.

It was not secure enough and was too prone to dropping information
"packets" used in such things as video conferencing, he told reporters.
Another shortcoming, he said, was the limited, telephone-like numbering
system that underpins familiar domain names such as www.yahoo.com

Stenbit said the Pentagon planned a five-year switchover to the new
system, or protocol, because he expected a majority of cellphones,
laptops and other devices that connect to the Internet to use the new
approach by then.

"My best guess is that it's going to happen commercially before 2008 or
I wouldn't have chosen 2008," he told reporters. "If we don't start
buying the stuff today, we're in trouble whenever it happens."

The Internet's current operating system, IPv4, has been in use for
almost 30 years by the Defense Department.

The new standard, known as Internet Protocol Version 6, or IPv6, being
developed by an independent standard-setting body, will help glue
together the key components of the Defense Department's so-called Global
Information Grid -- its sensors, weapons, aircraft, information systems
and digitally linked forces.

The evolution toward the new standard must be taken into account for all
purchases starting Oct. 1, Stenbit, assistant secretary of defense for
networks and information integration, told the armed services in a memo.


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