Internet Protocol Version 6
- Formal
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Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is also called IPng (Internet Protocol next generation), and it is the newest version of the Internet Protocol (IP) reviewed in the IETF standards committees to replace the current version of IPv4 (Internet Protocol Version 4).
- Practical
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IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion. IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4.
