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By Kris Strance and Alan Sekelsky Government Executive May 1, 2008
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    And nearly impossible for a wide scale implementation to happen while current contingency operations hoard time and resources.

    mark Posted May 8, 2008 4:41 PM
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    I'll state the obvious. If for anything else--historical reasons.

    Don't forget to roll out new firewall rules with that IPv6, as your IPv4 rules will leave you wide open.

    Example smb in XP is wide open in ipv6. (tough to keep secrets that way)

    Good luck rolling it out though.

    Phil Posted May 7, 2008 9:05 AM

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