Navy plans IPv6 tests

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/3198-1.html

BY SUSAN M. MENKE
GCN Staff
OCT. 23, 2000

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in Charleston, S.C., in the
coming year plans to test an IPv6 version of the Non-Classified IP
Router Network.

Government organizations are conducting lots of IPv6 impact studies in
view of the rapidly declining availability of 32-bit Internet Protocol
Version 4 addresses, said Michael P. Brig, SPAWAR-Charlestons Next
Generation Internet program manager. He spoke last week at the IPv6
2000 conference in Washington.

Dual IPv4-IPv6 stacks will soon be in place on the Defense Information
Systems Network Leading Edge Services network under test for the
Commander in Chief for the 21st Century Advanced Concept and
Technology Demonstration, Brig said. The demonstration, at three or
four military bases, will test IPv6 security and the
cost-effectiveness of migration from IPv4 addressing.

The rapidly growing use of peer-to-peer, mobile and always-on Internet
applications is also driving adoption of IPv6, Brig said. A 128-bit
IPv6 address is sufficient to connect to a peer without intermediate
routing delays for address lookup.

The Defense Department will use 13 of the 128 bits in each IPv6
address for security information, which Brig said is important to
ensure military chain-of-command integrity and secrecy.

Brig said SPAWAR has contracted with Opnet Technologies Inc. of
Washington to develop by next October an IPv6 model library for use in
military modeling and simulation.


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