Survey of IPv6 Transition Technologies for Security Analysis

Due to the depletion of the public IPv4 address pool, the transition to IPv6 became inevitable. However, the transition will take a long time, while the two incompatible versions of the Internet Protocol coexist. Different IPv6 transition technologies were developed, which can be used to enable the communication in various scenarios, but they also involve additional security issues. In this paper, first, we develop a priority classification method for the ranking of different IPv6 transition technologies and their most important implementations, so that the vulnerabilities of the most crucial ones may be examined first. Then we survey the most important IPv6 transition technologies by describing their application scenario and the basics of their operation and we also determine the importance of their security analysis according to our ranking system.