A1007: IP Address
Summary
ID | A1007 |
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Brief Description | This artifact describes IP Address entity |
Author | @ERMACK_COMMUNITY |
Creation Date | 2022/10/25 |
Modification Date | 2022/10/25 |
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Description
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.An IP address serves two main functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) defines an IP address as a 32-bit number. However, because of the growth of the Internet and the depletion of available IPv4 addresses, a new version of IP (IPv6), using 128 bits for the IP address, was standardized in 1998. IPv6 deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s.