Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: IPV6: Theory, Protocol, and Practice. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The current version could hold around four billion connections and since in the last few years the technological advancements have brought about more devices and connections all over, for this reason, IPv6 was worked out in the last few years.
Internet Engineering Task Force (I.E.T.F) is the entity that defines new protocol standards and hence is responsible for ensuring the new version fulfills the demands by equipping the new version with all the essentials. While the previous version was brought into practical use, little or no consideration was given to space, and security, and it was believed that around 4 billion address spaces would be sufficient for generations, however with time those addresses ran short, and security became a more serious issue with all types of malware, and other insurgent forces that came to the world of internet communication. (Kahng et al 2004)
The need for a larger network system was felt due to the depletion of I.P address spaces and since about 2 billion people across the globe use internet in form of tablets, p.d.a, smartphones, the internet is part of every cafe, airport, office, educational institute, for this purpose a network was needed that could accommodate a large number of upcoming connections. IP v4 provided a 32-bit address space.IPv6 users are likely to have faster connectivity. It is gaining popularity with time and needs is being felt in Asia and Europe for its implementation on the full scale. (Mun, young Song, et al, 2005)
.Internet protocol version 6 is a network layer protocol of the O.S.I model. it is termed as the next generation internet protocol, which is a new version of I.P, the successor to IPv4.The main aim has been to bring about improvement and advancements in the existing version. The overall design is an improved one. The large address space 128 bits) can accommodate many more networks, users, and devices. The addresses are arranged in eight groups of four hexadecimal digits that are separated by colons. The address types are either unicast which uniquely identifies an interface on IPV6 node, while multicast is for identifying a group of interfaces, and Anycast is assigned to multiple interfaces on multiple hosts (Eastep et al 2009), further, there are three classes of unicast interfaces that includes link-local, site-local and global.6 to 4 is another technical term associated with the entire concept which enables the packet transmission of IPv6 to a version 4 network.
