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Everything you need to know about IPv6
Posted by: Jordi on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 11:18 AM
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Once upon a time...

When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk with each other. However, it soon became clear that NCP was limiting in some ways, so work started on something better.

Complete article at arstechnica.