OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Thu Jun 30 20:03:44 UTC 2005

On Thursday 30 June 2005 14:56, Ted Fischer wrote:
> >On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:02:33 GMT
> >
> >  "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg at netzero.net> 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
> >
> >Well, when I was in the "gummint", we used to get these missives all the
> >the time.
> >(My personal favorite was the one that said that US Navy had to conduct
> >all email over Outlook for
> >security reasons.)
> >
> >We waivered or ignored every one.
> >
> >So I wouldn't count on this, either.
> >
>
> Then there was, about 1989 or 1990, the one that all Military IT purchases
> had to be OSI Compliant
>
> TP0/CLNP Anybody?
>
> Regards.
>
>

And about that same time frame was when they (gummit) said all programming in 
the future had to be done in ADA ...

-- 
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad at ecsis.net