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DOD to allocate its IPv6 addresses

Monday, February 05, 2007 - :24 PM

Topic: 6DEPLOY
Posted by: Jordi

The Defense Department has acquired a block of 247 billion IP Version 6 addresses, about equal to 25 percent of the entire IPv4 address space.

Only a tiny percentage of those addresses will be used, however. As with the North American Numbering Plan for telephone numbers, DOD officials said addresses will be assigned to networks in a hierarchical model that will leave many untouched.

Complete info at GCN.

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