Internet Protocol IP is the principal of communications protocol of digital message formats and rules for exchanging messages through a single network within the computer network or a series of interconnected networks with the use of the Internet Protocol Suite referred to as TCP IP Messages are exchanged as datagrams also known as data packets or just packets IP main purpose and task of IP is the delivery of datagrams from the source host or source computer to the destination host based on their addresses The packets are solely separate and the IP address includes methods and structures using tags address information as the part of the metadata within a diagram This process of putting these tags on datagrams is called encapsulation The most commonly used version of the Internet Protocol in the IP network is IPv4 IPv4 defines three ranges of addresses for private networks which contain private IP addresses that are not routable The development of IPV4 was in 1978 and the main protocol standard RFC 791 that governs IPv4 functionality was published in 1981 Shiranzaei and Khan The development of the protocol was used primarily for packet switched networks which it doesn't rely on existing circuits therefore the connection is useless
