IP stands for Internet Protocol. It is an internet layer protocol.
IP is the standard method for transporting data between computers on the Internet. IP encodes data in the form of packets, a linear sequence of bytes of a known length. Each packet contains a header section at the beginning that includes the addresses of the source and destination computer, as well as error detection data.
This section accepts sites and pages that discuss IP (IPv4) specifically. Sites that discuss IPv6 should be submitted to
Computers: Internet: Protocols: IP: IPng
and sites that discuss TCP/IP should be submitted to
Sites specific/instrumental/related to the deployment/development of IPv6.
IPv6 is the new Internet Protocol, following IPv4 which allows 128-bit addressing compared to the 32bit addressing in IPv4, thus allowing more nodes to participate on the Internet without the need for NAT.
Please submit topics directly related to RIP (Routing Information Protocol) to this category. General computing, networking and even routing sites or pages are not suitable for this specific category.