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IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • ip-address
  • tcp-ip
  • rfc
  • protocol
  • open-source-projects
  • internet-infrastructure
  • protocols
  • tcp
  • ietf
  • iana
  • UDP

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  • Developed by

    US flagIETF
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is IPv6?

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 icon IPv4 address exhaustion. IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4.

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