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IPv6

Version 6 of the Internet Protocol

Entitycomputer network protocol specification editionQ2551624

Also known as Internet Protocol version 6

Instance of: computer network protocol
, specification edition
Part of: Internet of Things

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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 address exhaustion, and was intended to replace IPv4. In December 1998, IPv6 became a Draft Standard for the IETF, which subsequently ratified it as an Internet Standard on 14 July 2017.

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Replaces: IPv4
Version, edition or translation of: Internet Protocol
Main Wikidata property: IPv6 routing prefix
Follows: IPv4
OSI Model layer location: network layer
Released: 1996
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011489
Uses: IPv6 address

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