
Chapter 25
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The Present and the Future of IPv6 497
With this announcement, IPv6 scored its first major public technology
win—until mid-2003, IPv6 was only discussed as a technology that might
be possible sometime in the future. There were no major corporations
or other organizations committing to IPv6, and although vendors have
been claiming IPv6 support for their products since the mid-1990s, never
before has IPv6 support been on a list of required features for such a large
consumer of networking technology.
The DoD, with its annual IT budget in excess of $30 billon, quite obvi-
ously will push the networking industry into a much higher commitment
to