IPv4 and IPv6: A Comparison
History The groundwork for today’s Internet was the result of the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, or DARPANET. DARPANET was born from the desire to build a network that would continue to function even if a segment was lost. In the late 1960s there was a growing interest by universities to build a network connecting their current research infrastructures. An increasing number of universities were now able to afford and use computers as part of their education and research. Computers were becoming a vital part of research. Research institutes wanted to be able to share their efforts between different parts of the universities. There was also a mounting importance for universities to work in conjunction with other universities by sharing electronic data. ARPANET was first used in 1971 and made use of IP’s predecessor, the Network Control Protocol or NCP. IPv4 became more finalized as the official RFC’s for TCP\IPv4 were documented. RFC’s 760 and...
