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I must admit to a bit of confusion about this thread as well. All an IP address is, is an address that's assigned to a device that's connected to the internet. The idea is all but identical to your physical address to your house. When your computer is on the internet it's assigned an IP address that identifies it to the internet, that way it knows who your computer is and can route traffic to and from it. Just like how you receive your mail at home. IPv4 is the name of the addressing system that's been in use on the internet for quite some time now. The problem is, when the system was designed no one had any idea that the internet would get so big, so fast. As such, they are rapidly running out of unique addresses that can be assigned to a computer or device. So an new system has been created, it's called IPv6. That's it, in a nutshell, that's the whole deal. There's nothing devious or sneaky about it, at least no more than what's been currently going on on the internet all along.
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