Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Mai maye gurbin IPv4 shine IPv6. IPv6 shine sakamakon shekaru da yawa na gwaji da tattaunawa wanda aka gabatar da samfuran ladabi daban-daban, kamar TP / IX (RFC 1475), PIP (RFC 1621) da TUBA (TCP da UDP tare da Manyan Adireshin, RFC 1347). Babban bambancinsa daga sigar 4 shine girman adiresoshin. Yayin da IPv4 ke amfani da 32 bits don magance, yana ba da c. Adireshin biliyan 4.3 (4.3 × 109), IPv6 yana amfani da adireshin 128-bit yana ba da ca. 340 undecillion, ko 3.4 × 1038 adiresoshin. Kodayake tallafi na IPv6 ya yi jinkiri, kamar yadda aka yi a watan Yunin 2008, duk tsarin gwamnatin Amurka sun nuna goyon bayan kayan aikin yau da kullun don IPv6. Sauran shawarwarin yarjejeniya da ake kira IPv9 da IPv8 sun bayyana a takaice, amma ba su da alaƙa da kowace ƙungiyar ƙididdigar ƙasa da ƙasa, kuma ba su da tallafi. Duk da haka, a ranar 1 ga Afrilu, 1994, IETF ta wallafa wata ranar Afrilu ta ranar wauta game da IPv9.  Tambaya: Menene magajin IPv4?
IPv6