IPv6 ne sakamakon shekaru da dama na gwaji da kuma tattaunawa a lokacin da daban-daban da yarjejeniya model aka samarwa, kamar TP / IX (RFC 1475), PIP (RFC 1621) da kuma TUBA (TCP da UDP da Bigger Addresses, RFC 1347). Its fice bambanci daga version 4 ne girman da adiresoshin. Yayin da IPv4 yana amfani da 32 ragowa ga magance, bada c. 4.3 biliyan (4.3 × 109) adiresoshin, IPv6 yana amfani da 128-bit adiresoshin samar da ca. 340 undecillion, ko 3.410 × 38 adiresoshin. Ko da yake tallafi na IPv6 ya kasance jinkirin, kamar yadda na Yuni 2008, duk da Amurka gwamnatin tsarin sun nuna goyon bayan kayayyakin more rayuwa ga IPv6.
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