Subject: Re: (Somewhat OT) Re: INET6 in GENERIC
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@NetBSD.org>
From: J. Scott Kasten <jscottkasten@yahoo.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/24/2006 09:27:51
Hey thanks!

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:53:39PM -0500, J. Scott Kasten wrote:
>>
>> Actually, I was just noticing that I mentioned Japan, and you mentioned
>> the US Millitary.  The Japanese government won't acquire products that
>> don't have v6 capability after 2008.  It slipped by me that the U.S.
>> millitary was pushing for v6 in 2008 as well.  The new US Mil smart card
>> sign-on program has already thrown my executives into a panic.  :)
>>
>> Incidentally, is there some easily reached documentation on that 2008 US
>> Mil v6 push?  I would like to reference that.
>
> Oh, that was announced to the world press a few years ago. I read about it
> in the Heise newsletter. Quick searching revealed, among others:
>
> US federal agencies:
> http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05845t.pdf
>
> US DoD:
> http://www.pentagon.gov/transcripts/2003/tr20030613-0274.html
>
> Regards,
> 	-is
>

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