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Basically the extent of my IPv6 knowledge
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Actually, the Dutch government has mandated that all of its services need to be IPv6 compatible.
The longer you try to avoid IPv6, the harder you'll make your life when you eventually need to use it.
It's really not that hard, especially compared to the kludge of protocols that make up IPv4. I know change is scary and difficult, but if you can do IPv4, you can do IPv6.
It also means you no longer need the kludge that is NAT. Full E2E connectivity is really nice -- though I've found some network admins dislike this idea because they're so used to thinking about it differently or (mistakenly) think it adds to their security.
NAT still has its place in obfuscating the internal network. Also, it's easier to think about firewall/routing when you segregate a network behind a router on its own subnet, IMO.
That's what temporary privacy addresses are for. Clients can just keep generating new addresses in your /64, which is it's own subnet.