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What is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
Is the latest 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.
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The Internet of Things
Nigel McKelvey (Computer Science Department, Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland), Kevin Curran (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland), and Nadarajah Subaginy (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch570
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Internet of Things (IoT)
The latest version of IP addressing scheme using 128 bits for the address, instead of the 32 bits used in IPv4 – most common Internet Protocol version.
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