This document provides an overview and agenda for a course on Introduction to IPv6 for Service Providers. The course covers IPv6 essentials such as addressing, operations, applications/services, routing protocols, and transition strategies. It discusses the rationale for adopting IPv6 including the depletion of IPv4 addresses and the need to support the growing number of internet-connected devices. The document outlines some of the key limitations of IPv4 like fragmentation and the issues with long-term reliance on Network Address Translation (NAT) to overcome the address space depletion.