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[moonv6] FW: OMB CIO IPv6 working group and NTIA address assignments
From: Bound, Jim (Jim.Bound@hp.com)
Date: 02/01/06
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From: Green, David B RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI
[mailto:Dave.B.Green@us.army.mil]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:08 PM
Subject: OMB CIO IPv6 working group and NTIA address assignments
FYI - From GCN: www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/38110-1.php
The deadline to move to IPv6 may be more than two years away, but agencies already are getting in line for IPv6 addresses. Several agencies already have contacted the Commerce Departments National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to sign up.
To better manage the process, NTIA in the next three weeks will make public a process by which agencies can request IPv6 addresses. We will have more firm details on how that will work. This way individual agencies will not contact NTIA.
One of the benefits of IPv6 is the almost limitless number of IP addresses that are available. These addresses would be assigned to mobile devices such as cell phones, PDAs, and a host of others that could be connected to the Internet. OMB has given agencies until June 08 to migrate their network backbones to the technology, as well as a host of other deadlines in the meantime. To help agencies meet the deadline, OMB and the CIO Council are setting up an IPv6 working group led by John McManus, NASA Deputy CIO and CTO. The group will work with the NIST to determine whether new technical guidance is needed for agencies to implement IPv6. NIST would not develop new standards, but look at existing ones and determine which ones should be used by agencies The guidance may cover IPv6 networks or security or other issues as agencies needs come up.
The working group also will issue three more guidance documents 31 Jan to help agencies implement the new technology. The CIO Council guidance follows a Nov 05 document known as Chapter 1 detailing how agencies should incorporate IPv6 into their enterprise architectures and strategic plans. Chapter 2 will talk about the technical details of how to develop a transition plan. Chapter 3 will detail how to set up governance of IPv6 implementation. And Chapter 4 will discuss procurement and acquisition issues. OMB requested a Federal Acquisition Regulations Case from the FAR Council to give agencies instruction on how to incorporate IPv6 goods and services into contracts. The case should be available to agencies for comment by late Feb.
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