Feds Are Ready for IPv6 D-Day

On 30 June, US federal government officials expect to declare an early victory on the IPv6 front. But they admit that meeting their much-heralded 30 June deadline for IPv6 compatibility is just the opening salvo of a long-term battle to get their networks ready for the Internet of the future. Under a White House policy issued in August 2005, all federal agencies must demonstrate the ability to pass IPv6 packets across their backbone networks by this deadline