Despite a longstanding deadline and months of work, most federal agencies are about to miss the Sept. 30 deadline to enable IPv6 but will face no penalties for not reaching that goal.
Officials say Sept. 30 was a goal set by the Office of Management and Budget and that consequences for not meeting it are unnecessary. Nonetheless, compliance remains important as private industry v6 compliance is strong and therefore limits government interaction. Google, for example, launched IPv6 in June (see video with Vint Cerf above). Keep reading →
Officials guiding federal agencies to meet a Sept. 30 deadline to comply with Internet Protocol version 6 standards say they are confident the deadline can be met, though that clearly means a lot of work must be done in the next four months.