What is the purpose, scope and applicability of the USGv6 profile?
For a detailed explanation refer to the following sections of the USGv6 profile: Executive Summary, 1.0 Introduction, 1.1 Purpose and Scope, 1.2 Audience. Summarizing the above, the USGv6 profile is a recommended acquisition guide for IPv6 capabilities in common network products. It is meant as a strategic planning guide for USG IT acquisitions to help ensure the completeness, correctness, interoperability and security of early IPv6 product offerings so as to protect early USG investments in the technology. As published, the USGv6 profile is simply a recommendation from NIST. The USGv6 profile and corresponding test program aim to provide a technical basis upon which agency specific or USG wide policies and plans can be defined, but on its own, NIST SP-500-267 does not embody policy. The scope of the current USGv6 profile is limited to products that actually provide network layer IPv6 capabilities (i.e., the IPv6 stacks), the management / control protocols necessary to support these ne
