This tag is for questions related to the Internet Protocol. You may want to use the tag [ip-address] instead of or in conjunction with this tag. For questions about intellectual property, use [intellectual-property] instead.
The Internet Protocol is one of the fundamental protocols used for the Internet. There are two main versions: ipv4 uses 32-bit addresses (often shown in dotted-decimal notation, e.g. 10.0.1.3) and ipv6 uses 128-bit addresses. IP addresses have their own tag, ip-address, which is often seen with ip. Its companion protocol is the Transmission Control Protocol, tcp, and the combination is often denoted TCP/IP.
This tag is also used infrequently to mean the C language structure related to IP addresses, the computational complexity class IP or instruction pointers. It should not be used to refer to intellectual property; that has its own tag, intellectual-property.
