IPv6: Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet Protocol Version 6:

Advantages:

• Provides more address space ( which is being needed in larger buisness scales-example comcast)
• More powerful internet (128bit versus IPv4's current 32 bit)
• Offers and overall larger scale internet-which again will be needed in the future
• Address allocation is done by the device itself
• Support for security using (IPsec) Internet Protocol Security

Disadvantages:

• It will be much harder to remember IP addresses (compared to the addresses now)
• Creating a smooth transition from IPv4 to IPv6
• IPv6 is not available to machines that run IPv4
• Any consumer costs in having to replace an IPv4 machine
• Time to convert over to IPv6