In a new interview with Network World, Jim Bound, Chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force, talks about the status of IPv6 adoption in the United States. A federal mandate – that agencies switch to an IPv6 backbone by June 2008 – looms.

Jim notes that the current IPv4 address space will be exhausted by 2010, give or take a year. He predicts a last minute stampede.

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