Since the conception of IPv6, there has been a slow push to transition over to the IPv6 Standard and to deprecate IPv4. In 1998 IPv6 became a Draft Standard from the IEFT (Internet Engineering Task Force) and in 2017 it became an Internet Standard. Thus, in the mid 1990s, the development of a new protocol (IPv6) was discussed. It quickly became apparent that the amount of IPv4 addresses that existed would not suffice for the massive influx of devices that came to be connected with each other.
The developers of IPv4, however, never imagined that the Internet would grow at the exponential rate that it did. This network would gradually develop into the Internet, the largest network of devices on Earth. IPv4 is a brilliant protocol that was developed to enable communication between computers on a network.
This text explains some general background information on IPv4 and IPv6. The basics of IPv4 and IPv6 Last change on
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