Re: US DoD and IPv6

[TJ <[e-mail]>]

>
> A bit before then, Thomas Narten wrote:
> > There are DoD networks where IPv6 is running today,
> > and there certainly are networks where it is not.
>
> The quote above seems very precisely phrased,
> and as an accidental result seems a bit misleading.
>
> It appears to refer to the Defense Research & Engineering Network
> (DREN), which is widely reported to be dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6.
> [e.g. see Ron Broersma's slides from the Google IPv6 Implementer's
> Workshop]
>
> However, the trade press and other public sources consistently
> indicate the DoD considers DREN to be "experimental" or "research",
> rather than "operational" (at least for the DoD meaning of the
> word 'operational').
>
> One also consistently reads that the actual operational DoD backbone
> (i.e. DISA's GIG-BE network) is IPv4 only, in part for security
> reasons and in part for lack of any business case to do otherwise,
> and that all other DoD "operational" networks are also IPv4 only.
>
>
The DoD is forbidden from running native IPv6 operationally, per the STIGs
and MO guidelines.  MO1 and 2 get some IPv6 in place, in tunnels across the
GIG ... MO3 will be the first step in native/operational IPv6, not even
signed yet IIRC.


/TJ