U.S Government Missed Its IPv6 Deadline

Two years ago, President Obama's administration set a deadline of September 30th 2012 for U.S. government public Web site domains to be enabled for IPv6. Two weeks ago, only 1% of tested domains had been successfully enabled according to data published by the Advanced Network Technologies Division of NIST. Despite a rush of new deployments since, the vast majority of sites (more than 80%) were still ready for the new protocol.

While its easy to criticize the government for moving slowly and missing their own deadline, the transition to IPv6 has taken longer than planned most everywhere in the world. President Obama's re-election chances probably won't take a hit here.

→ See also - U.S. Government IPv6 Deployment Snapshots (nist.gov)
→ See also - World IPv6 Day 2012