[134352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FAA - ASDI servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TR Shaw)
Wed Jan 5 06:26:30 2011
From: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinDogk9LP8j336W1Bh4jkhsyjKQm4a9WfjXSBt5@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 06:25:34 -0500
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Menerick, John =
<jmenerick@netsuite.com> wrote:
>> Every joke has a bit of truth. For instance, until recently (last 10 =
years?), O'hare's traffic controllers relied upon vacuum tube technology =
to perform their job.
>=20
> yea, I was really referring to the ATC part of the FAA I suppose...
> I'm not sure it's still true, but every time I hear it come up in
> conversation (I bet owen delong would actually know...or rs) there is
> a bit of:
> "Well, we could migrate to something NOT VT based, but that'd take 3+
> years and ... we have other priorities and ... "
>=20
> wash/rinse/repeat... On a serious note though:
>=20
> <http://www.fly.faa.gov/ASDI/asdi.html>
> (note this is the first hit in google searches for 'adsi server faa')
> seems to have all manner of information on it about the systems in
> question. They seem to mention VPN services, I suspect there isn't v6
> access, I would have read the requirements doc, but they wanted to
> send it to me as a .doc file... uhm, this is the 21st century could we
> distribute this in some sort of cross-platform manner? like txt ? or
> pdf? (though I hesitate to suggest pdf, what with the adobe pwnage
> consistently ongoing these days)
There is a federal directive that has been in place for a number of =
years that requires IPV6 support for all new IT contracts/systems and =
also a directive to all federal agencies to support IPV6 by 2008 (See =
http://ipv6.com/articles/general/US_Government_IPv6.htm )
Tom
