It has been decades in the making, but the near future is crystal clear now: the DoD is mandating IPv6-only. This is different than previous pushes to move the Department to some level of IPv6 enablement – including IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack, etc. This new push comes with very specific actions. This directive also arrives at the …
Lots of IPv6-related things hit the news cycle in the last few weeks.Here are some of those news items: 2020 IPv6 OMB Mandate: stating all federal agencies must transition at least 20% of their networks to IPv6-only by end of FY 2023 the NIST IPv6 Profile updated to their Revision 1 of the US Government …
The National Cybersecurity Center Center of Excellence (NCCoE) hosted a great IPv6 workshop today. Spectacular and substantive discussion packed into a morning workshop on the stae of IPv6 deployment in the enterprise network. The workshop was MCed by Doug Montgomery from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). You can take a look at …
The DoD has done an excellent job in annotating the best security practices for operating systems for years with its Security Technical Implementation Guides, or STIGs. In fact, STIGs for networking systems like routers, IDS/IPS, switches, devices, etc have been updated to reflect the new reality: IPv6. However, with STIGs on the operating system there …
Tomorrow, our very own Jeremy Duncan will be speaking on “IPv6 Best Practices in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) with Vmware NSX,” tomorrow around 11:10 am MDT. We are also here in the Denver Tech Center, so come on by and let’s talk! We have a booth right in front of the main conference room. If …
Tachyon Dynamics Speaking on IPv6 NFV at the North American IPv6 Summit Read More »
We had a great time at the North American IPv6 Summit last week. I recommend everyone check out the virtual downloads and sessions, as there was so much great content this year. Most of this year’s excitement is how IPv6 intersects with things like Software Defined Networking (SDN), OpenStack, Whitebox networking, and Network Functions Virtualization …
Speaking with quite a few network engineers in the last few months, I was shocked by the lack of real understanding of the Domain Naming System (DNS). It shocked me because it is the singular application functionality that is entirely network-based. Meaning that DNS is the foundation of the Internet, and from their perspective, should …
A couple of my buddies Shannon McFarland (Cisco) and Ed Horley (Groupware) did a great short video with Jeff Doyle (TCP/IP legend) on the urgency behind IPv6 in the service provider and the enterprise space. Enjoy! Also located in Ed’s post here: http://www.howfunky.com/2013/07/enterprise-ipv6-video-with-jeff-doyle.html Check out Ed’s blog for some great IPv6 deployment tips – especially …
Well, today is the day, or the last day I should say. At midnight tonight, the US Government will have shut the books on yet another Fiscal Year. Although, it’s not finances that has the technology industry glued to government tech news; it’s IPv6 adoption. By the end of FY 2012, the entire US Government …
2012 US Government IPv6 Mandate: The Day of Reckoning Read More »
***Updated on 14 May 2014 – regarding NET-IPv6-022, See below*** Thousands of network engineers in the DoD out there looking at implementing IPv6 now have to address a few Security and Technical Implementation Guidance (STIG) items that they used to just annotate as “Not Applicable – NA.” Now, IPv6 security is important. If you are …