Third Generation Internet Revealed: Reinventing Computer Networks with IPv6

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L. E. HughesThird Generation Internet Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8603-6_8

8. Transition Mechanisms

Lawrence E. Hughes¹  

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Frisco, TX, USA

 

This chapter covers a variety of protocols and mechanisms that were created to simplify the introduction of IPv6 into the Internet. The goal is not to make an abrupt transition from all-IPv4 to all-IPv6 on some kind of “flag day” (as happened in the transition from the First Internet to the Second Internet). That would be unbelievably disruptive and unlikely to succeed. The goal is to gradually add new capabilities that take advantage of IPv6, or work far better over it (e.g., IPsec VPN, SIP, IPTV,¹ and ...