What's the rush to IPv6?

IETF floats IPv6 plan IPv6-only networks by 2011, one engineer hopes By Joab Jackson Not all fields of endeavor appear to be as collectively organized as well as the federal government when it comes to migrating to version 6 of the Internet Protocol. Now, an engineer from the Internet Engineering Task Force has posted a proposed timetable for all organizations and service providers to move to the new protocol. (GCN)

I tried not to laugh when I read this. If the author thinks that the effort to convert to IPv6 is "collectively organized" then I think someone is deluded. From my cursory examination inside several agencies, most seem to be doing as little as possible to implement IPv6 and "meet the mandate" while continuing to conduct business as usual. After all, if there is no support at the operating system level (and it is an issue of more than just the stack folks) then is it really a migration or just window dressing...oh wait, it is Windows that is part of the problem, that and some one at the Office of Personal Management that was told the economy required more PC sales. That has to be the reason to force the move. Nothing else makes sense.