With the 2021 budget proposal in the rearview, the Office of Management and Budget’s IT policy shop released its first new guidance of the calendar year: a final push on getting agencies transitioned to IPv6, the current standard for identifying systems and devices communicating with and over the internet.
The previous standard, IPv4, created addresses using a 32-bit format, capping the total number of addresses at 2^32, or just shy of 4.3 billion. The IPv6 schema is 128-bit, enabling more than 340 undecillion, or 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses.
Adopting and Enforcing an IPv6-Only Policy: If Not Now, When?
