1. The New IP

• IPv6 development rationale
• Advantages over IPv4
• IPv6 benefits
• World address authorities
• Regional Internet registries

2. The Complex IPv6 Header Structure

• Header overview
• Header fields layout
• Extension headers
• Header extension order
• Quality of service capabilities (4)
• Security support
• Security implementations

3. IPv6 Address Field - Significant Changes

• Address syntax
• Hexadecimal representation
• Short form notation
• Network/prefix notation
• Prefix types
• Determination of Interface ID
• Interface ID privacy option
• Assigned global routing prefixes

4. Address Types and Requirements

• Unicast addresses
• Unique local unicast
• Link local unicast
• Special addresses
• Anycast address
• Multicast address and structure
• Multicast address scope
• Permanent "well known" multicast addresses
• Solicited node multicast address
• Multicast listener discovery protocol
• Multicast router discovery protocol
• Host and router support requirements

5. IPv6 Mobility Protocol-Improvements

• Components and structure
• Home agent and Corresponding nodes
• Bidirectional tunneling method
• Route optimization method
• Binding relationships
• Mobile IPv6 protocol extensions

6. Related Services-Updates and Enhancements

• Internet Control Message Protocol
• Neighbor discovery protocol
• Path maximum transmission unit
• "New" Autoconfiguration protocols
• DHCP changes for version 6
• DHCPv6 message exchange example
• DNS extensions/updates

7. Implementation Considerations

• Migration options
• Dual stack operations
• IPv4 mapped IPv6
• Proxying and translation
• Tunneling defined
• Tunneling configurations
• Encapsulation example
• Tunnel broker services
• Automatic tunneling using ISATAP
• 6to4 tunneling
• Teredo tunneling and addresses
• IPv6 impact on networking
• Routing protocol changes
• Impact on Data Link protocols
• Multihoming considerations
• Transition concerns (30)
• Security concerns (20)

8. Management Considerations

• IPv6 migration planning guide - 13 steps
• IPv6 deployment guide - 8 steps
• Security recommendations - 25 steps
• Management and troubleshooting tools

9. Appendix

• List of important RFCs
• List of network management tools and products
• Windows OS IPv6 support summary