OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Edward Lewis Ed.Lewis at neustar.biz
Thu Jun 30 17:21:33 UTC 2005


At 11:30 -0400 6/30/05, Daniel Senie wrote:
>At 10:02 AM 6/30/2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
>
>>Just in case anyone was wondering, U.S. gummint agencies will
>>be screaming in migration agony for the next couple of years. ;-)
>>
>>http://www.fcw.com/article89432-06-29-05-Web
>
>GOSIP II anybody? Will it be different this time than it was with 
>OSI? Everyone
>had to scramble in the late 1980s to get OSI stuff done, then the gov't never
>used it.

Having been in the US gov't (too) at the time of GOSIP, there were 
three reasons why I never used it much:

1) No budget was ever allocated to convert operations.  (We had 
products, but we weren't forced, induced, encouraged to use it.)

2) The API for the GOSIP protocols was not standard - not only 
different from the API for TCP/IP, the API for GOSIP varied by 
platform.  (POSIX had just begun.)

3) There was no tidbit of information available over the network that 
was on a server that spoke only GOSIP and not TCP/IP.  (No compelling 
reason.)

So, the questions are: will OMB fund the transfer of the US gov't 
sites?  Will there ever be a US gov't web site only on IPv6?  (I 
think the API issue has been solved.)
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