IPv6 Motivation

An article in InfoWorld today quotes IPv6 experts calling for organizations to adopt the next generation Internet protocol, which will provide more Internet addresses and with it the promise for new applications. From the article:

The telecommunications industry is going through "a period of grief" over the end of IPv4 (IP version 4), said Tony Hain, IPv6 technical leader for Cisco Systems. "Most people in the world are still in a state of denial" about upgrading to IPv6. "No one will ask for IPv6 until they run out of IPv4 addresses," he said.

Agencies are facing a June deadline â€" a mandate issued by the Office of Management and Budget â€" to make their network backbones IPv6 compliant. It looks like most will meet the deadline, but whether agencies will develop applications that take advantage of IPv6 is the question.