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Comment by thyristan

4 days ago

Usually there is no official justification given, just a list (in excel...) of security requirements that have to be ticked off. One of them is "Disable IPv6".

I've heard some ex-post justifications, make of them what you will: Existing infrastructure like firewalls, VPNs and routers might not be able to handle IPv6 properly. Address distribution in IPv6 is unpredictable. No inhouse knowledge of IPv6. Everything has an address in IPv6, so the whole internet can access it. No NAT in IPv6, so it is insecure. IPv6 makes things slow.