It was noticed that especially if the network is built with Junipers, there is no need to worry about performance impacts, and building a dual-stack infrastructure in the core network is very easy and simple to maintain.

The more difficult part comes from getting the universities to use IPv6, either through tunnels or natively. This requires some education, but the main bottleneck is probably at the IT management at those organizations. The IT staff is typically overloaded with work, or otherwise reticent to start testing IPv6 or to provide that as a service to the university departments or other facilities.

As such, it seems that the researchers and departments, if they want to try out IPv6, should be more insistent in asking for it from their university’s IT staff.