# Presentation: 695812

## IPv6

- IPv6

**Peter Tseronis**
**Chair, Federal IPv6 Working Group**
**Director, OCIO Network Services **
**U.S. Department of Education (ED) **
**Peter.Tseronis@ed.gov**
**(202) 245-6699**

## Agenda...

**Overview of the Internet Protocol**
**Implications of not using IPv6**
**The drivers behind M-05-22**
**Update on the Federal IPv6 transition**
**Mapping IPv6 to agency IT portfolios**
**Post-June 30, 2008**

## Background of IP...

- The Internet is a worldwide network of networks comprised of servers, routers, and backbone networks
- Basic function of the Internet is to transmit information across interconnected networks via:
- Addressing
- Fragmentation of data
- Numerical descriptions, e.g. 168.227.x.x, of networked devices distinguish one component from another on the Internet
- In 2003, the President’s *National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace *commenced the government wide effort to address IPv6

## IPv6 key characteristics...

- Increased number of addresses
**  ****IPv4: **
**~ 4,300,000,000 **
**  **
**  ****IPv6:**

**~** **340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000**

## Implications of not using IPv6...

- Despite the wide-scale deployment of Network Address Translation (NAT) at Federal agencies and within the United States, the worldwide consumption of the IPv4 address pool continues at an accelerating rate
- IPv4 address space is projected to run out on or before 2011, and when it does, the current Internet community will not be able to expand or add new applications, while the newest members of the Internet will be standardized on IPv6
- Moreover, the current Internet community (IPv4) may not be able to talk to the future Internet community (IPv6) effectively, which could splinter “The Internet” into two

## M-05-22...

- Resulted from a report out of the Government Accountability Office addressing the growth of global users and devices connected to the Internet
- Directed federal agencies to develop a transition strategy for using IPv6 (on network backbones) by June 30, 2008
- Kick started agencies to examine “technology refresh”:
- Redesign and modernize network topologies and infrastructure
- Offer improve services and applications
- Align technology portfolios with strategic goals

## Federal IPv6 Transition Update...

- Updated USG IPv6 profile should be released in mid-November for a 30-day comment period
- Recommendations for a test laboratory accreditation program (conformance and interoperability) are in the final stages of development
- A request-for-information delineating an expansive training curriculum will be released shortly
- Deployment testing (for compliance with M-05-22) procedures have been developed, tested, and executed
- Agencies are updating milestones within their respective Enterprise Architecture Framework Assessments

## Lines of Business

**Objectives and Requirements**

**IPv6 Features and Capabilities**

**Loans**

**Deliver  the right aid to the right people at the right time by streamlining  the loan process and improving monitoring**

** ****Peer-to-peer security**
** ****End-to-end performance**

**Grants Management**

**Maintain financial integrity, speed disbursement, and improve monitoring to ensure effectiveness of funds distributed**

** ****Peer-to-peer security**
** ****End-to-end performance**
** ****IPv6 Multicast / Collaboration**

**Evaluation ****and ****Policy**

**Evidence-based evaluations that inform decision makers while improving the security and reducing the data collection burden for customers**

** ****Peer-to-peer security**
** ****End-to-end performance**
** ****IPv6 Multicast / Collaboration**

**Research**

**Improve access, timeliness and awareness of evidence-based education research**

** ****IPv6 Multicast / Collaboration**
** ****End-to-end performance**

**Information Dissemination**

**Provide ready access to relevant department and education information to outside constituencies**

** ****IPv6 Mobility**
** ****IPv6 Multicast / Collaboration **

**Compliance**

**Provide high quality and easy-to-use workflow, case management and mobility capabilities for investigations, audits and complaints **

** ****IPv6 Mobility**
** ****Peer-to-peer security**

**Administration (Financial, HR and IT)**

**Improve administrative service levels and reduce operational costs by providing enterprise-wide support to ED programs**

** ****Auto configuration**
** ****Peer-to-peer security**
** ****IPv6 Multicast / Collaboration**

## IT Portfolio Alignment: Line-of-Sight

***Grants***

*IT Portfolio Alignment: Line-of-Sight*

**Mission**
**& Goals**

**Objectives**

** ****Business**
**Capabilities**

**IT****Services**

**Investment**
**Portfolio**

**Solution****Delivery****Organizations**

***Administration***

***Compliance***

***Evaluation***

***Research***

***Information***
***Dissemination***

***Loans***

**Strategies**

**Notes:**
This slide shows an alignment matrix which is purposely not filled in. It allows users to fill in their own data on how their Mission and Goals, then objectives, then strategies link to business capabilities, IT Services and Investment Portfoliois for Loans, Grants, Evaluation, Information Dissemination, Research, compliance and Administration—they all lead to Solution Delivery Organizations. There is a Business View on one side and an IT view on the other 

## Incorporating IPv6 within Service Oriented Architecture...

- Focus on delivering specific capabilities to support the business process
- Focus on delivering common capabilities that can be leveraged across multiple business units
- Required to support enterprise wide IT operations

**Notes:**
This slide has a graphic of a triangle with 3 levels of an IT Architecture Segment. The biggest at the bottom is Technical Infrastructure, the middle is Common Enabling Services and the top is Dedicated Systems.

## Questions to ponder...

- What does IPv6 make possible?
- Where does your agency need to be in 3-5 years?
- What applications will be expected ?
- Public health/safety (telemedicine)
- Educational collaboration (distance learning)
- Sensor networks (environmental, first responders, border security)
- Networks-In-Motion (traffic control)
- RFID (inventory, shipping, and delivery)

## In Summary...

- Information technology is in a constant state of evolution
- The Internet is experiencing a growth spurt
- IPv6 builds on the operational experiences of IPv4
- Early adoption allows Federal agencies to innovate and explore for new solutions that only IPv6 may provide.  Staying on IPv4 may stymie our ability to “think outside the box.”
- Transition will extend beyond June 30, 2008...think marathon not sprint
- It’s a matter of “When” not “If”

**Peter Tseronis**
**Chair, Federal IPv6 Working Group**
** – **
**Director**
**U.S. Department of Education (ED) **
**Peter.Tseronis@ed.gov**
**(202) 245-6699**