Tag: Binary Mathematics

The main reason why IPv6, or IP next generation (IPng) as it was known in 1994, began development was due to the impending exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. The IETF officially adopted RFC 2460 in December 1998, and IPv6 was born! Part of the problem in the mid-90’s was the inability for companies and consumers to buy a chunk of IP addresses, instead of huge sections of the IP block, like Hewlett-Packard being assigned 15.0.0.0/8, or Apple having 17.0.0.0/8. To put …