The Future of the Internet - IPv6
The Future of Internet: IPv6
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1 Introduction
Internet Protocol version 6, also known as IPv6, is an enhanced version of Internet Protocol intend to replace the IPv4 which is the current Internet protocol widely used in the world today. Throughout the development of Internet, the Internet protocol (aka IP) has been a defining element that dictated its speed, efficiency and capability. Upon various improvements made by developers around the world, IPv4 stood the test of time and remains the predominant Internet protocol after the enormous expansion of global network. However, the inventors themselves never anticipated such enormous rate of Internet expansion in the early days of protocol development, certain technical assumptions led to major limitations that became prominent and had to be addressed to keep up with the advancement of global network. Thus the IPv6 was designed from the ground up to address the short comings. In this report, we will examine the basic characteristics of the IPv6 and its several major features that the improvements that it contributes to the future of Internet.
2 Historical overview
In this section, a brief history of the Internet and Internet Protocol will be explored. We will also examine the design limitation of the Internet Protocol version 4 which motivated the development of Internet Protocol version 6.
2.1 The Beginning of Internet
The development of Internet Protocol began in the 1960’s motivated by the advancement in mainframe computers [1]. American computer scientist Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider first proposed the idea of a global data-exchange network in his paper “Main-Computer Symbiosis” published in 1960. Shortly after, he collaborated with Weldon Clark and published “On-line man computer communication” in 1962 which further articulated the idea of the
Executive Summary
Table of Contents
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1 Introduction
Internet Protocol version 6, also known as IPv6, is an enhanced version of Internet Protocol intend to replace the IPv4 which is the current Internet protocol widely used in the world today. Throughout the development of Internet, the Internet protocol (aka IP) has been a defining element that dictated its speed, efficiency and capability. Upon various improvements made by developers around the world, IPv4 stood the test of time and remains the predominant Internet protocol after the enormous expansion of global network. However, the inventors themselves never anticipated such enormous rate of Internet expansion in the early days of protocol development, certain technical assumptions led to major limitations that became prominent and had to be addressed to keep up with the advancement of global network. Thus the IPv6 was designed from the ground up to address the short comings. In this report, we will examine the basic characteristics of the IPv6 and its several major features that the improvements that it contributes to the future of Internet.
2 Historical overview
In this section, a brief history of the Internet and Internet Protocol will be explored. We will also examine the design limitation of the Internet Protocol version 4 which motivated the development of Internet Protocol version 6.
2.1 The Beginning of Internet
The development of Internet Protocol began in the 1960’s motivated by the advancement in mainframe computers [1]. American computer scientist Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider first proposed the idea of a global data-exchange network in his paper “Main-Computer Symbiosis” published in 1960. Shortly after, he collaborated with Weldon Clark and published “On-line man computer communication” in 1962 which further articulated the idea of the
References: 1. Peter, Ian. “History of the Internet protocols” NetHistory (August 2011) http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/protocols.html 2. “History of the Internet” Wikipedia.org (August 2011) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet 3. “ARPANET” Wikipedia.org (August 2011) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET 4. Cerf, Vinton. Dalal, Yogen. Sunshine, Carl. “RFC 675 SPECIFICATION OF INTERNET TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM” (December 1974) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc675 5. “Internet Protocol” Wikipedia.org (August 2011) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Protocol 6. Fuller, V “RFC 4632 Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR):The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan” (August 2011) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4632 7. Deering, S. Hinden, R.”RFC 2460, Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification” (December 1998) 8