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Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
All US government agencies’ infrastructure (network backbones) must be using IPv6 and all agency networks must interface with this infrastructure by June 2008. All US Government Chief Information Officers must ensure that all new IT procurements are either IPv6 compliant by June 2008 or have written exceptions in advance of this date. An IPv6 compliant product or system must be able to receive, process, and transmit or forward (as appropriate) IPv6 packets and should interoperate with other systems and protocols on both IPv4 and IPv6 modes of operation.
The continuous growth of the global Internet requires that the architecture evolve to accommodate new technologies that support increasing numbers of users, internet hosts, services and applications. IPv6 or IP Next Generation (IPNG) is the successor to the existing internet addressing protocol, IPv4, and enables the continuing expansion of internet technologies. In addition to expansion of the internet address range, IPv6 includes designed security and privacy enhancements, dynamic auto-configuration semantics and quality of service enhancements for optimized throughput services. There are a significant number of implementation, migration and coexistence issues that will affect hardware and software vendors in order to deploy IPv6. For more information about current IPv6 issues, visit IPv6 Forum or 6NET.
Many governments are mandating IPv6 compliance within the next twelve to eighteen months and will contract only with internet hardware vendors and operating system vendors supporting IPv6. SAS will be implementing support for IPv6 beginning with SAS Version 9.2 currently scheduled for 2007. Note: In order for an environment to be truly IPv6 compliant, each component (the software application, the operating system and the network environment) must be IPv6 compliant.
Below are the operating systems and their links to IPv6 compliance. IPv6 adoption by operating system vendors that SAS supports includes Microsoft, HP, IBM, and Sun. Infrastructure vendors such as Cisco have also announced support for this technology.
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Federal Government