Linux readied for DOD IPv6 certification (GCN)

[Posted November 27, 2008 by cook]

Government Computer News reports on the recent IPv6 Special Interoperability Certification of the Linux kernel. "The Linux kernel has been brought into full compliance with the Defense Information System Agency's IPv6 Special Interoperability Certification, the Linux Foundation announced this week. As a result, all Linux distributions that use the latest kernel and enhancements should be able to pass certification. In 2007, the Defense Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer and the chief assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information integration developed an IPv6 Master Test Plan to ensure all DOD equipment using IPv6 would be able to interoperate."

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Posted Nov 28, 2008 18:33 UTC (Fri) by jmayer (guest, #595) [Link] (2 responses)

Has anyone a list that's a bit more specific than the one in the article?
ICMPv6, IPSEC etc. are a bit broad terms. So what are the actual
improvements to the IP-stack and applications?

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Posted Nov 30, 2008 6:06 UTC (Sun) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link]

I would imagine the basic requirement would be compliance with one of the official levels of certification from TAHI, plus any security extensions that are not currently tested within TAHI. However, that is just a guess, but as TAHI has most of the test beds already developed against the test criteria and the Government requires all departments (DoD included) to use COTS in preference to any GOTS software, something like this would be an obvious first step.

(Ah. I see a problem. DoD and "obvious" in the same paragraph, when it comes to IT. This may raise difficulties with my theory.)

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Posted Nov 30, 2008 21:42 UTC (Sun) by cajal (guest, #4167) [Link]

The list of DoD-certified devices, as well as the certification profiles is here - http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/apl/ ipv6.html