By Robert Poe

The official result of the Moonv6 project that ended in March will be a white paper describing how participants got a varied bunch of IPv6 equipment, networks, functions and applications working together.

The unofficial, but more important, result may be a thriving future U.S. IPv6 market, sparked by government and industry working together. Although there's no certainty that government involvement in efforts like Moonv6 will ignite such a market, it's a good first step. And what is certain is that without such collaboration, the U.S. will lag the rest of the world in IPv6 for a long time.

Ironically, the U.S. is behind in IPv6 because it started so far ahead in the Internet itself. IPv6 has been under serious development since the early 1990s, when the epochal explosion of Internet usage brought panicked predictions that the world would soon run out of IP addresses, bringing Internet growth to a halt.

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