When the IETF began development of IPv6, what was the goal of implementing this technology?

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When the IETF began development of IPv6, what was the goal of implementing this technology?

  • to increase the limiting 128 bits available in IPv4 to facilitate the growing Internet
  • to provide more address space in the Internet Names Registry
  • to relieve IPv4 address depletion
  • to make reading a 32-bit address easier

Explanation: IPv6 is designed to be the successor to IPv4. IPv6 has a larger 128 bit address space to provide many more addresses than IPv4.

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