IPv6 Business Drivers

More than a decade ago, the Internet architects who were working within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) realized that with the predicted growth in Internet usage, the current Internet would quickly run out of IP addresses. A worldwide effort was launched to design a next-generation IP (codenamed IP: next generation, or IPng). Several different proposals were submitted to the working group, including reusing the existing Open System Interconnection (OSI) protocols and running, for example, TCP on top of Connectionless Network Protocol (CLNP). However, due to a number of reasons, the working group selected another proposal that extended the IP addresses from 32 bits to 128 bits, while retaining the majority of other ...

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