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INFORMATIONAL

Authors:

J. Arkko
F. Baker

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IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6180

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Abstract

The Internet continues to grow beyond the capabilities of IPv4. Anexpansion in the address space is clearly required. With itsincrease in the number of available prefixes and addresses in asubnet, and improvements in address management, IPv6 is the only realoption on the table. Yet, IPv6 deployment requires some effort,resources, and expertise. The availability of many differentdeployment models is one reason why expertise is required. Thisdocument discusses the IPv6 deployment models and migration tools,and it recommends ones that have been found to work well inoperational networks in many common situations. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it ispublished for informational purposes.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.