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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008


From: Larry Smith <lesmith () ecsis net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:03:44 -0500


On Thursday 30 June 2005 14:56, Ted Fischer wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:02:33 GMT

 "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
Just in case anyone was wondering, U.S. gummint agencies will
be screaming in migration agony for the next couple of years. ;-)

http://www.fcw.com/article89432-06-29-05-Web

Well, when I was in the "gummint", we used to get these missives all the
the time.
(My personal favorite was the one that said that US Navy had to conduct
all email over Outlook for
security reasons.)

We waivered or ignored every one.

So I wouldn't count on this, either.


Then there was, about 1989 or 1990, the one that all Military IT purchases
had to be OSI Compliant

TP0/CLNP Anybody?

Regards.



And about that same time frame was when they (gummit) said all programming in 
the future had to be done in ADA ...

-- 
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad () ecsis net



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