080-IPv6_Autoconfiguration_FCCN. DirectAccess with Microsoft UAG: A smart way to start using IPv6. John Joyner suggests one way for organizations to start using IPv6 -- by deploying a solution that allows remote workers to access IPv6-based corporate resources over the public IPv4 Internet.
The widely reported depletion of public Internet IPv4 addresses does not yet impact many businesses beyond Internet service providers (ISPs), so few organizations have deployed IPv6 technology in any fashion. Yet, IPv6 is built into Windows client and server operating systems, and is supported by Active Directory (AD).
Most IT Pros recognize that a migration to IPv6 is inevitable, but there has been a lack of a business motivation to begin an IPv6 transition. QA Cafe - Testing 6to4 and 6rd IPv6 Islands with CDRouter. IPv6 Autoconfiguration - The Internet Protocol Journal - Volume 7, Number 2. Since 1993 the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) [1] has allowed systems to obtain an IPv4 address as well as other information such as the default router or Domain Name System (DNS) server.
A similar protocol called DHCPv6 [2] has been published for IPv6, the next version of the IP protocol. However, IPv6 also has a stateless autoconfiguration protocol [3], which has no equivalent in IPv4. DHCP and DHCPv6 are known as stateful protocols because they maintain tables within dedicated servers.