This document provides an overview of IPv6 including:
- The expanded 128-bit addressing scheme and different address types like unicast, multicast, etc.
- Simplified header format compared to IPv4 and removal of checksumming at the network layer.
- Transition mechanisms between IPv4 and IPv6 like 6to4 and ISATAP addressing.
- Hierarchical and aggregatable global address allocation policies and interface identifier assignments.
- IPv6 header options and their processing model compared to IPv4.