[81809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Thu Jun 30 13:22:06 2005
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20050630112933.07ba4eb0@mail.amaranth.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:21:33 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: ed.lewis@neustar.biz
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 11:30 -0400 6/30/05, Daniel Senie wrote:
>At 10:02 AM 6/30/2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
>
>
>>Just in case anyone was wondering, U.S. gummint agencies will
>>be screaming in migration agony for the next couple of years. ;-)
>>
>>http://www.fcw.com/article89432-06-29-05-Web
>
>GOSIP II anybody? Will it be different this time than it was with
>OSI? Everyone
>had to scramble in the late 1980s to get OSI stuff done, then the gov't never
>used it.
Having been in the US gov't (too) at the time of GOSIP, there were
three reasons why I never used it much:
1) No budget was ever allocated to convert operations. (We had
products, but we weren't forced, induced, encouraged to use it.)
2) The API for the GOSIP protocols was not standard - not only
different from the API for TCP/IP, the API for GOSIP varied by
platform. (POSIX had just begun.)
3) There was no tidbit of information available over the network that
was on a server that spoke only GOSIP and not TCP/IP. (No compelling
reason.)
So, the questions are: will OMB fund the transfer of the US gov't
sites? Will there ever be a US gov't web site only on IPv6? (I
think the API issue has been solved.)
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