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06-16-2003, 04:05 PM
Defense Department Looks To Next-Gen Net
By Lisa M. Bowman
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
June 16, 2003, 2:39 PM PT
The U.S. Department of Defense said it plans to support the next-generation Internet, known as Internet Protocol version 6, in as little as five years.
In a briefing Friday, John Stenbit, assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, said the DoD hopes to move to IPv6 by 2008. He said department acquisitions taking place after October of this year must be IPv6-compatible in order to help the military gear up for the transition.
"What we're trying to do is get our folks in the position that whenever the decision is made on the outside to switch, we're ready," Stenbit said. "And more importantly, on our own internal systems, which we control a little bit more, we're going to then be prepared." Stenbit stressed that the military's embrace of IPv6 would be an evolutionary process.
IPv6 has been billed as the next frontier of the Internet, an update to the current 30-year-old structure.
More @ Cnet.com (http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1017861.html?tag=lh)
By Lisa M. Bowman
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
June 16, 2003, 2:39 PM PT
The U.S. Department of Defense said it plans to support the next-generation Internet, known as Internet Protocol version 6, in as little as five years.
In a briefing Friday, John Stenbit, assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, said the DoD hopes to move to IPv6 by 2008. He said department acquisitions taking place after October of this year must be IPv6-compatible in order to help the military gear up for the transition.
"What we're trying to do is get our folks in the position that whenever the decision is made on the outside to switch, we're ready," Stenbit said. "And more importantly, on our own internal systems, which we control a little bit more, we're going to then be prepared." Stenbit stressed that the military's embrace of IPv6 would be an evolutionary process.
IPv6 has been billed as the next frontier of the Internet, an update to the current 30-year-old structure.
More @ Cnet.com (http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1017861.html?tag=lh)