Daily Network Monitor

IPv6 was created a decade ago by the Internet Engineering Task Force to solve the anticipated address space crunch with IPv4. IPv6, which uses a 128-bit addressing, supports an almost abundant number of uniquely identified systems on the internet, while IPv4 supports only a few billion systems because it uses a 32-bit addressing scheme. Furthermore, the United States has consumed the majority of available IPv4 addresses, leaving countries like China to speculate about forcing citizens to share IP addresses.

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