The IPv6 uses 128-bit addressing with an address space of 2^128, which was much bigger than what its predecessor, IPv4, was offering.Įach internet-connected device has a distinct IP address that is used to locate and identify it. It was developed in 1998 by IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) to overcome the problems IPv4 had. IPv6 is the latest Internet Protocol version, a network layer protocol that allows communication over the network. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) created IPv6 with the intention of replacing IPv4 in order to address the long-anticipated issue of IPv4 address exhaustion. It closely follows the architectural ideas created in the earlier version of the protocol, Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), and offers end-to-end datagram transfer over various IP networks.
The most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), which directs traffic across the Internet and serves as an identity and location system for machines on networks, is called Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
After which, IPv6 is in demand since 2006. The first version of IP is IPv4 which had some drawbacks therefore IPv6 was introduced to the market. Every device connected to the internet is located with the help of IP addresses to make communication possible. IP stands for Internet Protocol, basically your digital identity over the internet.
