GAO says the agency should adopt IPv6 for its public-facing systems and update its zero-trust architecture implementation plans.

Federal IPv6 Task Force Chair Robert Sears says agencies on track to miss required transition deadlines will be more closely monitored.

Step one focuses on forming an agency's transition team.

The new guidance explains how the transition will affect network management operations.

In it the agency proposes mitigations for potential conflicts between IPv6 and TIC 3.0.

Agencies have until next week to submit their zero-trust architecture implementation plans, per President Biden's cybersecurity executive order.

Agencies' IPv6 implementation plans are due before the end of fiscal 2021.

It'll be awhile before the government moves entirely away from the older IPv4 standard, but OMB has now set specific milestones and deadlines.

The White House is clear about what it wants, but the switch to IPv6 has been in the works for a long time already.

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