The ETSI GR IPE 001 report highlights that the transition to IPv6 is essential to address IPv4 address shortages and support emerging technologies like 5G, IoT, and edge computing. The document analyzes technical gaps in areas such as security, multicast, and operations while identifying key deployment scenarios including cloud-network convergence and NB-IoT networks. It further details six enhanced innovations—deterministic quality, ubiquitous connectivity, low latency, ultra-high bandwidth, security, and automation—that enable new use cases. These advancements focus on features like SRv6-based forwarding, service-based slicing, and telemetry-based OAM to meet the demands of IP on Everything.
Keywords: IPv6, SRv6, edge computing, network slicing, automation