Chief Information Officers Council – Roadmap Toward IPv6 Adoption for the Federal Government

Just last week (July 12, 2012), the Chief Information Officers Council released this updated version of the Roadmap Toward IPv6 Adoption for the Federal Government to help with the upcoming deadlines for September of 2012 and September 2014. It highlights the history as well as the government’s vision for IPv6. To read the original article…

On the Practical Feasibility of Ping Sweeping IPv6 Networks

The IPv6 address space is huge.  On paper each IPv6 subnet (/64) supports more than 18.4 quintillion hosts (millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions and then quintillions).  It’s an amazingly large number.  By every conceivable measure today we can’t contemplate a situation where anything but the tiniest portion of that address space will actually be utilized.  Assuming…