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The Internet Protocol that finally emerged was assigned version number 6, being the lowest free number greater than 4. The PIP protocol and TUBA protocol used versions 8 and 9, following version 7 for TP/IX. In 2004, an IPv9 protocol was developed in China using 256-bit addresses.
The Chinese IPv9 proposal is distinct from RFC 1347, [9] "TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses (TUBA)", a proposal for network address extension using CLNP which was provisionally assigned the Internet Protocol version number 9, and RFC 1606, [10] an April Fools' Day Request for Comments that describes a fictional IPv9 protocol that featured a ...
Online gaming. As of 2022, China is the second largest market for online games after the United States. [38] In 2023, the country has 668 million internet users playing online games and the industry was worth US$42 billion. [39] 53.8% of gamers are male, 46.2% are female.
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC; 中国互联网络信息中心) is a public institution affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. [1] Founded on 3 June 1997 and based in Zhongguancun, Beijing, the center manages the country-code top-level domain name of the People's Republic of China, namely the ...
A regional Internet registry (RIR) is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a region of the world. Internet number resources include IP addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers. Map of regional Internet registries. The regional Internet registry system evolved, eventually dividing ...
Caption text. The deployment of IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP), has been in progress since the mid-2000s. IPv6 was designed as the successor protocol for IPv4 with an expanded addressing space. IPv4, which has been in use since 1982, is in the final stages of exhausting its unallocated address space, but still carries ...
IPv4 address exhaustion is the depletion of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses. Because the original Internet architecture had fewer than 4.3 billion addresses available, depletion has been anticipated since the late 1980s when the Internet started experiencing dramatic growth. This depletion is one of the reasons for the development and ...
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem ...