Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/22/1755258 Posted by: CowboyNeal, on 2003-10-22 20:01:00 Topic: internet, 259 comments from the let's-get-it-on dept. [1]securitas writes "The [2]Department of Defense has launched Phase I of its delayed IPv6 interoperability test ([3]mirror) in a six-month project dubbed [4]Moonv6. It is the [5]largest North American IPv6 test ever and its goal is to evaluate IPv6 for 'network-centric military operations.' Phase II was originally scheduled to begin in January 2004 but may be delayed due to the late start of the current test. 'IPv4 addresses are 32 bits long, enough for around 4 billion unique addresses.' In contrast, the IPv6 address length is '128 bits, or 340 billion billion billion billion unique addresses.' Experts hope this will solve a predicted IP address shortage as more devices are created to use the Internet." [6]Click Here References 1. http://geartest.com/ 2. http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/story/0,10801,86243, 00.html 3. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1854687864&fp=2&fpid=1 4. http://www.moonv6.org/ 5. http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3095951 6. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=78&alloc_id=1118&site_id=1&request_id=168131&op=cl ick&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]