IPv6 - The Next Generation Internet Protocol
The next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) is poised to make a new wave in the coming decade. If you wonder what the big deal is about, you need to look at some serious limitations of the current IP protocol, or IPv4 to be precise.
When the TCP/IP protocol was initially designed, they had not the faintest idea that the Internet will one day push forward the World Wide Web and support the great conflagration of people and devices literally hooked into it. The current protocol, from this perspective, has many short-comings and flaws.
One of them is the address space problem. As many of us are aware, the current 32-bit addressing used within IP is not allocated well, resulting in huge gaps of unused addresses. Also, the Internet is expanding at an exponential rate, with many more devices getting added to the network every day. Do we have a wide enough address space for them?....
