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A three-year-old mandate for IPv6 usage, put into place by the White House's Office of Management and Budget, went into effect June 30 — an order requiring all U.S. government agencies to have the ability to transmit IPv6.

But passing of the deadline doesn't mean that U.S. government agencies have actually begun using IPv6 for transit, reports Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews. In fact, even with experts predicting that the current IPv4 Internet addressing scheme will be exhausted by 2010, the vast majority of all traffic in the U.S. remains IPv4.

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Related topics: IPv6, Policy & Regulation