352: IPv6 investigation

This project was to conduct an initial investigation into the issues and likely effort involved in bringing in IPv6 support. (Note that it is not being suggested that IPv4 should be phased out any time soon.) It was expected that a number of follow-on projects would result to cover specific work items which are identified.

Status 2016-09-06: IPv6 has now been enabled on all DICE (managed Linux) subnets. A document on "addressing" is is linked below.

Working documents:

• "IPv6 niggles" wiki page
• Initial thoughts and anticipated issues
• Addresses and options pertaining thereto
• September 2015 Development meeting presentation: odp, pdf, ppt
• December 2015 progress: odp, pdf, ppt.
• April 2016 "where next": odp, pdf, ppt.
• Local IPv6 configuration notes, and temporary instructions on how to set up to use IPv6 for testing
• September 2015 blog article
• January 2016 blog article
• August 2016 blog article
• Final report

Followon projects:

• DHCPv6
• Self-managed IPv6

Useful references:

• Network documentation
• computing.projects entry
• Sam's ITPF presentation notes.
• Sam's IPv6 Addressing on EdLAN (public version)
• Janet IPv6 publications
• JISCMAIL IPV6-USERS list archive
• Slides from the 2015-12-01 JISC IPv6 deployment workshop
• RIPE ENOG 6 presentation
• Wikipedia entry
• RFC 2460: IPv6 Specification
• RFC 4291: IPv6 Addressing Architecture
• RFC 3849: IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation
• Internet Protocol Version 6 Address Space (IPv6 registry)
• RFC 2464: Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
• RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
• RFC 6724: Default Address Selection for IPv6
• RFC 4884: ICMPv6
  • and the associated ICMPv6 "type" Numbers registry
• RFC 4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
• RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
• RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
• RFC 3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
• RFC 4191: Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes
• RFC 5175: IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option
• RFC 4038: Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition
• RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
• RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
• RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
• RFC 7321: Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)
• RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
• RFC 4472: Operational Considerations and Issues with IPv6 DNS
• RFC 6106: IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration
• RFC 5340: OSPF for IPv6
• RIPE's IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Policy
• IPv6 initscripts home page
• BIRD documentation
• NDPMon (project seems to have gone quiet since September 2012)
• addrwatch
• ipv6.com portal
• UK IPv6 Council
• IPv6 test site