OMB has issued version 2.0 of its “Planning Guide/Roadmap Toward IPv6 Adoption within the U.S. Government” – or IPv6 roadmap, for transitioning to the next version of the Internet protocol because the current one, version 4, has run out of addresses.
It calls on agency CIOs, IPv6 transition managers, chief enterprise architects, and chief acquisition officers to assess their agency’s progress towards adopting IPv6, including a critical assessment of their current transition plans.
OMB said the roadmap was updated from the original, published in 2009, to provide the government’s IPv6 history, vision, current goals and deadlines, noting that the document is the primary guidance for supporting federal agencies in their achievement of the 2012 and 2014 objectives, as well as the strategic vision for beyond 2014.
The document attempts to encompass aspects of a successful transition and incorporates experience from those directly engaged in IPv6 activities, combining programmatic (including Clinger-Cohen Act compliance), technical, cybersecurity, and federal acquisition elements, as well as the suggested interactions with other federally mandated technical efforts such as the Trusted Internet Connection.