EXPERT RESPONSE
One of the IETF's goals in the design of IPv6 was to ease network management. Three of the important ways that IPv6 does this are: autoconfiguration, in which a node discovers nearby routers and determines its own IP address; renumbering, which eases the pain of renumbering a network; and route aggregation, which eases router configuration, especially for entities such as ISPs. The TechTarget article IPv6 addresses
(Part 1, Part 2) has more information on these.
On the other hand, converting a network to IPv6 can be a complex process. RFC 4057 discusses three common situations and ways to deal with them.
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