Category: Roadmaps

Jul 16

US Government Releases Updated IPv6 Roadmap

Last week the US Federal CIO Council released an updated version of their IPv6 planning guide/roadmap. Available as a PDF download from cio.gov, the 73-page document provides a wealth of IPv6 information to both US government agencies and also to operators, enterprises and others seeking to understand exactly what the US government is doing with IPv6.

This July 2012 document updates and replaces the 2009 version of the roadmap.  It does not specifically list what has been updated, but provides this note:

This document is the latest version of the Roadmap, and is the key guidance document for supporting Federal agencies in their achievement of the 2012 and 2014 objectives, as well as the strategic vision for beyond 2014. This document has the same foundational elements instituted in the original Roadmap, and has been updated to reflect the three years of experience (from both the public and private sectors) since original publication. The sections of the document comprise all aspects of a successful transition and now include practical experience from those directly engaged in IPv6 activities, combining programmatic (including Clinger-Cohen Act compliance), technical, cybersecurity, and Federal acquisition elements, as well as the suggested interactions with other Federally mandated technical efforts such as the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC).

True to that statement, updated references can be found throughout the document.  I found it particularly interesting to see section 1.4, “Our Business Situation,” at the beginning of the document that provided a list from a competitive point of view of what other countries around the world are doing with regard to IPv6.

The sample transition timelines starting at the bottom of page 12 may be of interest to many readers, as they lay out examples of how agencies can meet upcoming September 2012 and September 2014 deadlines. Section 4 on page 22 also outlines where US federal agencies should be in 2012 and 2014.

Readers may also find Section 6 on page 32 very useful with the ideas for transition steps. Obviously, some steps are specific to US government agencies, but the ideas behind those steps could be equally useful in other context.

All in all a very useful document for US government agencies and for others seeking to understand what a large entity needs to do to make the transition.

May 15

Want To Tell Us Where To Go? View Our IPv6 and DNSSEC Roadmaps…

road pictureWhat type of IPv6 and DNSSEC
articles, tutorials, and other content do we need to add to this Deploy360 website? What areas need more attention? Have you looked for some topic here and not found it?

Since we launched Deploy360 four months ago, we’ve been collecting feedback through comments to this site; through interactions on Twitter, Facebook and Google+; from email sent to our deploy360@isoc.org address; from feedback form submissions; from conversations at various events … and even before our launch from attendees at our two ION conferences last year.

You have given us a great amount of feedback, and we’ve summarized all of that into two “roadmap” documents that outline what we believe we need to add to the site. They can be found here:

Now we’d love to hear from you again… have we captured your feedback accurately? Can you see other areas that we need to add? Other topics or tutorials?

How else can we help you with information about how to deploy IPv6 and DNSSEC rapidly?

Please note that these roadmap pages will be “living documents” in that we’ll be constantly updating them as we add items to the site (and remove them from the roadmap), find new items we need to add, and generally get more feedback from you about where you think we need to focus.

With these roadmaps published, we will start adding the listed resources to the site. We will be finding these resources out on the Internet where we can – verifying their accuracy and then reviewing them here on the site. Where needed resources don’t yet exist in a free and open form, we’ll create those resources in conjunction with our partners and volunteers.

To that end, if you know of a great tutorial or article (including one you’ve written) that fits an item on the roadmap, please let us know so that we can consider it for inclusion in the site. If you are looking for a specific topic and it’s not on this site or on the roadmap yet, let us know so we can add it to the roadmap.

Many thanks again to everyone who has given us feedback on the site over the past four months. We’ve been very pleased by the response so far and are looking forward to growing this site to help many more people deploy IPv6 and DNSSEC!

Please let us know how we can help you!