AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment

APRICOT 2026 Indonesia's Universitas Islam conducted experiments that found using generative AI vastly reduces the cognitive load on network pros during IPv4 to IPv6 migrations, but that organizations may not be ready for both AI and the new network protocol.

The university's CIO Mukhammad Andri Setiawan, who also teaches at its Department of Informatics, discussed the experiments on Tuesday at the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT) in Jakarta, Indonesia. Setiawan explained that the university created a tool called "Net AI Copilot" that converts existing IPv4 implementations to dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 configurations and also generates ready-to-run Ansible playbooks to make the move a reality. The tool includes configuration validation checks and automatic rollback triggers to help prevent errors.

The CIO and his team sought to answer three questions:

• Does generative AI reduce the cognitive workload experienced by network engineers during the complex IPv6 renumbering process ...