On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Menerick, John <jmener...@netsuite.com> > wrote: >> Every joke has a bit of truth. For instance, until recently (last 10 >> years?), O'hare's traffic controllers relied upon vacuum tube technology to >> perform their job. > > yea, I was really referring to the ATC part of the FAA I suppose... > I'm not sure it's still true, but every time I hear it come up in > conversation (I bet owen delong would actually know...or rs) there is > a bit of: > "Well, we could migrate to something NOT VT based, but that'd take 3+ > years and ... we have other priorities and ... " > > wash/rinse/repeat... On a serious note though: > > <http://www.fly.faa.gov/ASDI/asdi.html> > (note this is the first hit in google searches for 'adsi server faa') > seems to have all manner of information on it about the systems in > question. They seem to mention VPN services, I suspect there isn't v6 > access, I would have read the requirements doc, but they wanted to > send it to me as a .doc file... uhm, this is the 21st century could we > distribute this in some sort of cross-platform manner? like txt ? or > pdf? (though I hesitate to suggest pdf, what with the adobe pwnage > consistently ongoing these days)
There is a federal directive that has been in place for a number of years that requires IPV6 support for all new IT contracts/systems and also a directive to all federal agencies to support IPV6 by 2008 (See http://ipv6.com/articles/general/US_Government_IPv6.htm ) Tom
