This is significant in comparison to IPv4, which necessitates manually renumbering websites that use private (non-global) IPv4 addresses. Organizations can operate without having to obtain an address prefix from the global Internet address space when using local-use addresses. These addresses can be used to locate a site at local level, as well as embedded IPv4 addresses. Within a website, these addresses can be used to enable local communication as well as bootstrapping up to global addresses. The two types of local- use addresses are link-local and site-local. When sending messages all over the world, unicast addresses are used. In the future, more types of addresses may be added. In general, IPv6 addresses function similarly to IPv4 addresses when connected via Classless Inter domain routing (CIADR). It is reserved for future use in 85% of cases. Approximately 15 percent of the address space is allocated within the first few days. Addresses are distinguished by the leading bits that define their character. The IPv6 address family includes unicast, anycast, and multicast addresses. Individual interfaces and sets of interfaces are referred to as IPv6 addresses, which are 128-bit long and serve as identifiers. This rule applies to leading and trailing 0s, but not to trailing 0s allowing the address to be ambiguous because you could omit both leading and trailing 0s is inappropriate. One way to shorten IPv6 addresses is to leave leading 0s out of any hextet (a 16- bit section). What Are The Rules To Condense An Ipv6 Address? If three consecutive zeros are compressed to a double colon in an ascending order, they are all contained in the same order. What is the most compressed representation of the IPv6 address 2001:0db00:008:0000:abcd:00:0000:0000:0001? be removed? The first zero hextet would be compressed to a single zero. You can use discontinuous zero compression to detect an address with a pattern of zeroes that deviates from normal. If the next zero fields are one zero each, you can shorten them to one zero each and divide them by one colon. The first section of zeroes has been replaced by the symbol. To perform compression properly, you must follow three rules. In the natural sense of an address, the colons divide the eight fields into sixteen bits each of those eight fields contains 16 bits.

It is the sixth version of the internet protocol, which will allow for trillions of addresses to be accessed. With stateless address compression, an IPv6 address is compressed by representing the zeroes in the address with a double colon (::).

The most common form of IPv6 compression is known as “ stateless address compression” (RFC6052). The rules of IPv6 compression are governed by RFC5952. IPv6 compression is a technique used to shorten the length of an IPv6 address.

Ipv6 rules of compression