Native IPv6

Native IPv6 is also known as “IPv6-only.” It simply means that IPv6 is the only running IP protocol in the network.

In simplistic terms, the IPv6 environments can be thought of in the same way as native IPv4 environments of today, only using a higher version of IP. There will be a time when the operational and capital cost for running a dual-stack network will become unjustifiable. At some point, and that point varies greatly from network to network, it will make sense to turn off IPv4 altogether, or at least in the majority of the network.