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After some research, I found 3 main methods in order to establish the transition from IPV4 to IPV6,

  1. Dual Stack
  2. Tunneling
  3. Translation

Now, I can understand them all and how they work, but very few resources explain when should one method be preferred over another one.

So, what are the differences between the three which could lead to preferring one mechanism in particular?

Obviously, real scenarios would be more than appreciated.

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    "Translation"? What do you mean by that? That's not, AFAIK, a known IPv6 transition method. Sep 25, 2018 at 17:03
  • @MichaelHampton Translation makes use of NAT-PT or NAT64 in order to translate IPV4 to IPV6 and vice-versa (thus the naming).
    – scharette
    Sep 25, 2018 at 17:14
  • Hm. But those are not really in the same class as tunneling or native dual stack and aren't used for the same purposes. So I'm not sure how they got mixed in here. Were you reading something in particular? A book or web site? Sep 25, 2018 at 17:17
  • @MichaelHampton That might be right, I'm far from being an expert in that matter. But pretty much any proposed google threads on "IPV4/IPV6 transition" includes it.
    – scharette
    Sep 25, 2018 at 17:20
  • I can tell you what they all are, but that probably wouldn't be very useful. It might help write a better answer if you can also explain in your question what you understand of each of these technologies, and any ideas you might already have about how they would be used. Sep 25, 2018 at 17:22

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