IPv6: The Better Internet Protocol Version

Running head: - INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION
INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION
1
Executive Summary
Internet Protocol is the driving force upon which devices and many organizations depends in
order to communicate between the hosts. Therefore, it is necessary to have a reliable internet
protocol. The internet protocol that can adapt all the changes is preferred. The report
compares the two versions of internet protocol and justifies that IPv6 is better than Ipv4. The
comparison between the two versions is the term of its features as address space, the
mechanism of the transition, functionality and the issue related to the incompatibility. The
migration from the IPv4 to the Ipv6 and highlights the various difference between the two
internet protocols based on their performance.

INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION
2
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
IPv6 better than IPv4..................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................4

INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION
3
Introduction
IPv stands for Internet Protocol Version. IPv6 is the newly introduced version in the
Internet Protocol (IP). With its advantages over IPv4, it is stated that IPv6 is eventually
replacing the IPv4 (Deering and Hinden 2017). It is very vital to understand the difference
between the two-internet protocol versions. One of the most important layer of the Internet
protocol is the IP layer. Internet protocol specifically relates to the technical structure of the
packets and the related addressing scheme that helps the computers to connect over a
network. Internet protocol helps in addressing a package and drop the same package in the
system, without the involvement of any direct link between the sender and the recipient. The
report discusses the features of IPv6 and the reason that states it is better than IPv4. The
reports gives an overview about IPv4, IPv6, main features of both the internet protocol, the
reason that most of the devices are using IPv6 and the process of congestion with the help of
dropping datagrams is explained.
IPv6 better than IPv4
It is important to understand that IPv6 is the extension of IPv4 addressing. The IPv6 is
design to handle the issues related to the old internet protocol version. The most important
advantage of the IPv6 is that it comes with increase address space. The IPv6 also aims to
minimize the cost and time. When it is configured in new devices, it uses the method of auto
configuration (Sarikaya and Xia 2015). The IPv6 uses 128 bits address space, which is more
compared to the IPv4. IPv4 offers only 4.3 billion addresses on the other hand the IPv6 is
able to handle 340-undecillion address. The recent version of the IP uses the string notation
format, which consists of eight sets of four different hexadecimal address, which are
separated by colon. There is no broadcasting method in the IPv6, it uses the group multicast
message process (Grayson and Gundavelli 2016). The IPv6 simplifies the process and speeds