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Will There Be An IPv6 Transition?

6/8/99


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Table of Contents

Will There Be An IPv6 Transition?

Why a New Version of IP?

IPng Process Illustrated

IPng Process

6BONE - Founded 1996, 41 Countries, 2000+ Sites...

Outline of Talk

Fundamental Feature: 128 bit Addresses

Address Design

Address Structure

Example Addresses

Top Level Aggregation ID (TLA)

Sub-Top-Level Aggregator

Sub-TLA Plan Revision by Internet Regional Registries

Compromising With Registries

Stringent Measures for Prevention of v6 Land Rush

So When Will Real IPv6 Address Allocation Begin?

Commercial pTLA Holders (Trial Services)

Pressure on IPv4 Address Space?

Pressure on IPv4 Address Space? - 2

Pressure on IPv4 Address Space? - 3

Will There Be An IPv6 Transition Because of Addresses?

Outline of Talk

Protocol Interest in IPv6

Partial List of Commercial Implementations (Product)

IPv6 Header Enhancements

IPv4 Header

IPv6 Header

Extension Headers

Reduced Fragmentation Harms

Extensibility-Oriented Options

Will There Be An IPv6 Transition Because of Protocol Enhancements?

Outline of Talk

Autoconfiguration

Autoconfiguration and DNS

Renumbering Capabilities: Need

Renumbering Support from Stateless Address Autoconfiguration

Renumbering Support for DNS

New: Renumbering Support for Routers

Amsterdam ISPs Exchange Addressing Experiment

IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

Neighbor Discovery Enhancements

Security

Will There Be An IPv6 Transition Because of New Capabilities?

Outline of Talk

Transition - How and If

Non-Transition Scenario 1

Non-Transition Scenario 1 Cont.

Non-Transition Scenario 2

Transition Scenarios

Transition Tools

V6-V6: Configured Tunnels

V6-V6: 6over4

V6-V6: 6to4

V6-V4: Stateless IPv4-IPv6 Translator (SIIT)

SIIT Cont.

V6-V4: NAT-Protocol Translator (NAT-PT)

Conclusion - Will There Be An IPv6 Transition?

Conclusions Cont.

Conclusions Cont.

References

Author: USC ISI-EAST

Email: mankin@east.isi.edu