>} Japan has a government mandate for IPv6 services with a drop dead date in 
>} the relatively short future.  There are a few other countries that have 
>} followed suit.  That has always been my leverage with management.
>
>     I'm not sure if I have the year right, but I think it is 2008 that
>the US military will be switching to IPv6.  This could push things
>along.

AFAIK, that date is the date set for when everything should _support_
IPv6.  I don't believe there is a date set for when IPv4 should be
turned off.  But those dates have a tendancy to slip.

--Ken, member of the military-industrial-entertainment complex