InterOperability Lab encounters a few glitches, but programs mostly worked.

Agencies must learn to leverage — and manage — the wealth of IP addresses that come with the new set of Internet protocols.

Editor's Desk—commentary: Much work and training is required if IT staffs are to deal with an IPv6 future that has all but arrived.

Vendors forgo competition, for now, to help agencies make the move to IPv6.

VeriSign Inc., which operates two of the Internet’s 13 Domain Name System root servers, has upgraded the servers to enable them to handle native IPv6 traffic.

Lockheed Martin begins a controlled transition to IPv6, planning to pass on lessons learned to agencies.

As the June deadline for having a backbone for the next-generation Internet protocol approaches, Government Computer News and its affiliate publications, Federal Computer Week and Washington Technology assess where agencies are in meeting the goal.

Listen to a podcast with John Curran , chairman of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN), who updates the status of the IPv4 address space and explains why companies really need to start looking at supporting IPv6.