IPv6: Needed and Necessary

The U.S. government has been one of IPv6's biggest backers, mandating that federal agencies be IPv6-compliant by June of this year. Recent articles argue that most companies needn't rush to convert to IPv6. The shortage of IPv4 addresses isn't a problem for most, as long as they use network address translation (NAT) — and most are. NAT shields company-internal IP addresses from the Internet, and allows companies to use any Class A address space they desire, behind a NAT firewall. What's your position on IPv6? Are you deploying as soon as possible, or asking "what's the rush?"

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