University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory Tests Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for IPv6 Interoperability Against USGv6 Host
Profile
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 has met the
National Institute of Standards and Technology's USGv6 evaluation
requirements, giving United States government agencies confidence that,
as they make the migration to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6 conforms with the USGv6
Host profile.
While the move to IPv6 is now critical for U.S. government agencies with
the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, IPv6
also enables government networks to scale for new initiatives,
including cloud computing, broadband, and smart grid. As a result, the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop the technical infrastructure
— including standards and testing — to support wide scale adoption of
IPv6. NIST subsequently developed a technical standards profile and
testing program — known as USGv6 — which certifies hosts, routers,
switches, and security products for U.S. Government acquisition against
IPv6 functionality and other technical capabilities. Under the USGv6
profile, all IT network vendors must provide a Suppliers Declaration of
Conformity (SDOC) for USGv6 to be considered for any new government IT
purchases.
To declare conformance, Red Hat fulfilled USGv6 requirements by
completing the prescribed product development for IPv6 conformance and
interoperability testing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 achieved conformity after rigorous testing by the University
of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), one of two
accredited third-party labs approved for USGv6 testing.
UNH-IOL tested Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 against the mandatory fields —
including USGv6 Base, Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC),
Addressing Architecture, Encapsulating Security Payloads (ESP), Internet
Key Exchange (IKEv2), and IP Security v3 (IPSec-v3), confirming that Red
Hat Enterprise Linux met NIST's technical standards and interoperability
evaluation requirements. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in full
conformance with mandatory fields, and able to support deployment of
secure, end-to-end, IPv6-enabled network services, which enable Federal
agency core missions and applications.
"Red Hat's USGv6 SDOC conformance with mandatory fields shows that U.S.
government agencies can protect their investments in IPv6 technologies
by taking advantage of advanced functionality and features provided in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6," said Paul Smith, vice president and general
manager, Public Sector, Red Hat. "An IPv6-enabled state will be able to
better counter the IT challenges posed by the ongoing uptrend towards
the connected society, and our conformance in this testing gives
government customers confidence that Red Hat can serve as their trusted
advisor for these initiatives."
"IPv6 compliance is a critical component as our nation's Internet
infrastructure evolves," said Timothy Winters, senior manager, IP
Technologies, UNH-IOL. "The testing we do at UNH-IOL is vigorous,
thorough, and objective. As a result, government agencies can be assured
that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 meets the requirements for federal
agency SDOC approval."
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