Survey: Little enthusiasm for IPv6 among U.S. federal gov't. IT bosses

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN'S ISP NEWS REPORT
06/22/05
Today's focus: Survey: Little enthusiasm for IPv6 among U.S.
federal gov't. IT bosses

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In this issue:

* Survey finds IPv6's awareness and interest lag behind need for
  new 'Net protocol
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Today's focus: Survey: Little enthusiasm for IPv6 among U.S.
federal gov't. IT bosses

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan

More than a decade after it was developed, IPv6 has yet to gain
much interest or enthusiasm among U.S. federal government IT
officials despite their stated need for many of its features, a
recent survey has found.

IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main
communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. IPv6 offers
many technical benefits when compared to IPv4, including easier
administration, tighter security and an enhanced addressing
scheme.

IPv6, which uses a 128-bit addressing scheme, supports a
virtually limitless number of uniquely identified systems on the
'Net, while IPv4 supports only a few billion systems because it
uses a 32-bit addressing scheme.

Despite its many advantages for network managers, IPv6 has
attracted few customers in the U.S. The U.S. Defense Department
is one of the first organizations to commit to IPv6 migration.
Other early adopters include Defense contractors and high-tech
equipment vendors such as Cray, an MCI customer, and Juniper, a
Verio customer.

Even with a strong endorsement by the Defense Department - which
represents half of the federal IT budget - IPv6 is attracting
low levels of interest among federal IT buyers, according to a
survey of 349 federal government and industry IT decisionmakers
that was sponsored by Juniper.

Only 7% of survey respondents consider IPv6 "very important" to
achieving their IT goals, and 60% of respondents report that
IPv6 will play no role in helping them achieve their IT goals or
that they are unsure if it will help.

Ignorance of IPv6 abounds, the survey found. More than 40% of
respondents say IPv6 is not being discussed within their
organizations. Meanwhile, 64% of respondents do not have a
written transition plan to IPv6, and another 27% are unsure if
they have such a transition plan.

As expected, Defense Department respondents were more positive
about IPv6. More than 40% of Defense respondents said IPv6 was
very or somewhat important to achieving their IT goals compared
with 27% of civilian agency respondents. Similarly, 12% of
Defense respondents have a written IPv6 transition plan compared
to 4% of civilian agency respondents.

Rod Murchison, a senior director of product management at
Juniper, called the results of the survey sobering. "Awareness
of IPv6 outside [the military and homeland security
environments] is surprisingly low," he says.

However, survey respondents placed a high priority on network
management issues that IPv6 can help address. For example, more
than 80% of the respondents said their top priorities include
improving QoS, improving and simplifying cybersecurity and
improving network management. IPv6 can help with all three of
these areas.

Murchison called this education gap between what federal IT
officials want and what IPv6 can provide quite wide.

"There are good technical and business-oriented problems to
solve with IPv6," Murchison says. "IPv6 awareness is still low,
but key IT concerns map well to IPv6 capabilities...We need to
do a better job at educating customers."

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

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http://www.networkworld.com/nlisp2749

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http://www.networkworld.com/nlisp2421

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Network World, 06/20/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nlisp2750

AT&T expands WiMAX testing
Network World, 06/20/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062005-att-wimax.html?rl
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Carolyn Duffy Marsan is a senior editor with Network World and
covers emerging Internet technologies and standards. Reach her
at <mailto:cmarsan@nww.com>
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'Managing Security', and 'Best Practices'.
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