The IPv6 Initiative at ETSI (3GPP) is attracting a very good number of players (50) including ISPs/Vendor/Academia from Europe, US  and Asia to work on: 

Identify gaps and recommendations of existing and required IPv6 standards both inside ETSI and in other SDOs; 

Identify and describe IPv6 Network related use cases & specific scenarios, derived requirements and IPv6 networking challenges in the following areas:  

IPv6 based 5G (and beyond 5G) IP transport and cloud & IP network convergence  

IPv6 based enterprise networking and Industrial Internet 

IPv6 cybersecurity and management, 

Document an automated networking e2e reference architecture, using IPv6;  

Describe an IPv6 based specific deployment best practices / guidelines and transition tools for: (1) IPv4 to IPv6, (2) dual stack to IPv6 only; 

Provide and demonstrate PoCs and test case descriptions to validate IPv6 standards based approaches. 

Please see the progress achieved in the last 2 months since its first meeting in January 18, 2021 in the attached slides deck. 

More details: https://portal.etsi.org/Portals/0/TBpages/IPE/Docs/ISG_IPE_ToR_D-G_Approved_20201019.pdf  

More info can be found in the published white paper early this year: https://www.etsi.org/newsroom/news/1825-2020-09-etsi-white-paper-and-webinar-map-the-way-forward-with-ipv6  

A new web site (portal) started: https://portal.etsi.org/tb.aspx?tbid=892&SubTB=892#/  

You can join for free here as:  

ETSI members are invited to join the ISG IPE, subject to reading and signing the IPE Member Agreement available from the ISG IPE General Information section of the ETSI Portal. 

Non-ETSI members are also invited to join the ISG IPE, subject to reading and signing the ISG IPE Participant Agreement as well.