- IPv6 is 128 Bit Addressing internet enabled devices
- An IPv6 address is represented as 8 groups of four hexadecimal digits, each group representing 16 bits The groups are separated by colons (:).
- IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion, and is 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
- theoretically allowing 2 Power 128 No of Usable IPs
- Example of an IPv6 address is : 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334.
| IPv6 | Binary Value |
| 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. | 0010000000000001:0000110110111000:1000010110100011:0000000000000000:0000000000000000:1000101000101110:0000001101110000:0111001100110100 |
| IPv6 | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 | Group 5 | Group 6 | Group 7 | Group 8 |
| 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. | 0010000000000001 | 0000110110111000. | 1000010110100011. | 0000000000000000 | 0000000000000000 | 1000101000101110 | 0000001101110000 | 0111001100110100 |
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