Public Administrations and the transition between both IPv4 and IPV6
The public authorities, are at the same time agents promoters of the process of transition and actors in the same. On one hand, have to establish the conditions for engagement in what we need to be a collective endeavour, through cooperation with industry and telecommunications operators and carrying out dissemination and awareness among Internet users. In addition, the same Public Administrations need an extension of the scarce resource that are. environmental Sensors, Armed Forces, highly tecnificadas Administration in real time, … are requirements of the near future to the application of ict within the administrative activity. This should be added the role of public administrations as suppliers of services to society through The Internet.
For the global nature of The Internet, this process cannot be addressed from a national perspective, but to be analysed from coordination with international agencies. A point of departure in a coordinated effort of states to develop uniform policies in this area is the Ministerial declaration of the OECD on the future of the Internet economy (Seoul, 2008).
At the same member states undertake to promote the adoption of IPv6 both by governments and by large consumers of IPv4 addresses
. As guidelines for the development of public policies in this regard, OECD recommends
:
- Working with the private sector and other stakeholders to increase the education and awareness and reduce bottlenecks
- Demonstrate the government's commitment to the adoption of IPv6
- Seek international cooperation and monitoring of implementation of IPv6.
Most recent milestones in international cooperation in the transition between both IPv4 and IPv6 from ITU-T and the european union. In both cases, it is beginning to make way a more proactive role of public administrations in the process of migration, incitándolas to lead by example.
The resolution ITU-T 180 adopted at the conference held in Guadalajara in october 2010
, spur member states of the organization to upgrade their systems and services are more relevant within the scope of the public service to ensure compatibility with IPv6. Moreover, the european commission, both within the “ Digital Agenda for europe ” as “ The Plan of action of E-government 2011-2015 for europe
”, incites to support the process of migration through the interoperability of services of E-government with IPv6.
International agreements on the way forward in the transition to IPv6 IPv4, together with the increasingly urgent need for new round takes place effectively for the next depletion of the area of addressing IPv4, is giving rise to a new generation of national migration plans, establishing more demanding dates for the process. One example is the Memoradum rendered in the Federal government of United States “
Transition to IPv6
the most common actions in those programmes
- An inventory of capacities developed previously IPv6, technical and human
- Define a
profile procurement of equipment with IPv6 compatible
- Introducing the obligation to fulfil the profile defined in all procurement
- Make visible public services from the IPv6 connections
In this regard of the last point, it is important to point out that this does not necessarily imply a full equipment of domestic public administrations. The use of mechanisms of interoperability described in RFC 4213 can be prevented in some cases the cost of migration be functionally complete and satisfactory.
In the case of spanish public administrations, in the process of migration will be essential to examine the impact of transition to IPv6 “ communications network Spanish public administrations ”, as defined in article 43 of law 11/2007. The evolution of the network as a key element of interoperability among the Spanish Public Administrations, will be the modification of the instruments that support interoperability and which are defined in the royal decree 4/2010 (“ Plan addressing the administration ” set out in article 14 and Rule of “ Technical Interoperability connection Requirements communications network spanish public administrations ” set out in its First Additional Provision).
These and other aspects are considered in the agreement of the council of ministers of 29 april 2011, which approves the
Capacity-building Plan for mainstreaming IPv6 in spain
.
