IPv6 technical overview

Why do we need IPv6?
• Limitations of IPv4
• Problems with RFC 1918
• Problems with NAT
• Problems with routing table growth
• Other problems - security, authentication, QoS etc

How does IPv6 help?
• Increase address space
• More efficient, heirarchial routing
• Provider based address allocation
• IPSec authentication and encryption
• Quality of Service
• Automatic address configuration
• New DNS abstraction - DNAME and A6 records

So how do we do it?
• What's available now?
• What's comming soon?
• How do we drive the change?
• How do we train staff?
• How do we train our vendors and clients?
• We're stuck with NAT for a long time yet

What have we done so far?
• Address plans
• Test labs
• Currently installed systems and networks

How do we keep up with developments?
• Mailing lists
• Web sites
• Pressure our vendors
• Pressure our clients