The United States Census Bureau is one of the leading implementors of IPv6 within the U.S. government. Charles Sun, IPv6 Transition Manager for the U.S. Census Bureau, provided us with information noting:
- On September 28, 2012, U. S. Census Bureau was the first agency – Operating Unit (OU) within U. S. Department of Commerce to be in full compliance of the U.S. OMB mandate for IPv6 transition Phase I (September 30, 2012);
- The U.S. Census Bureau is currently on track to complete the second phase of the U.S. OMB mandate to enable all internal agency users to be able to access Internet related services from our internal enterprise network by September 30, 2014 so as to be in full compliance with the U.S. OMB mandate based on the U.S. federal government initial IPv6 transition initiative.
Charles also pointed to two sources of IPv6 statistics:
- Estimated web statistics for census.govSee the “Links : Referenced Domain Web Statistics” section on the “Background and Methodology” page to fully understand what is being shown here. Essentially the first chart shows the speed at which connections can be made to the main www.census.gov site. The bottom chart shows the connectivity out to various sites that are linked from the main page.
- IPv6 statistics within the larger US Department of Commerce
Charles also wrote a personal opinion article on global IPv6 adoption titled “Stop using Internet Protocol Version 4!” that is available (with registration) at ComputerWorld, CIO.com and other related sites.
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