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What's weird about them not supporting ipv6?

Well, briefly - the General Service Administration declared "By September 30, 2014, agencies needed to update their public networks to Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)"

There is an exception process, but Akamai already supports IPv6 (though they do charge extra for it, booo!). You'd like to think something as high visibility (PR, not web traffic) as senate.gov would comply with the GSA.

http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/technology/2014/01/02/1128/

The US Senate is not an agency. They are a branch of Congress, and therefore definitely not required to do anything a executive agency tells them to do -- especially if it's reasonable like implementing HTTPS.

Yes, the IPv6 is a White House (not GSA) mandate, like https://https.cio.gov. It doesn't apply to the legislative or judicial branches, and in that blog post, GSA is advertising the services it can offer other agencies to help them achieve IPv6 compliance.

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