The Internet Protocol version 6

Today, the World Wide Web and the Internet are quickly becoming a ubiquitous part of modern life. The Internet operates using the Internet Protocol (IP) as the base. This protocol has worked well for a number of years. However, IP version 4 (IPv4) is showing its age as unexpected growth problems have appeared. Most notable is the rapid consumption of network addresses and the explosion in performance requirements for intermediate routing nodes. IPv4 was deployed when exceeding the theoretical maximum number of four billion nodes was not a possibility. With the advancements and the proliferation of computer technology, that limit will be reached in the next decade. The paper discusses version 6 of the Internet Protocol