Microsoft dude, that's why it's basically so crappy, and hasn't reached it's peak as yet, if another company made it, you would never have to speak to your ISP again.
internet protocol
Internet Protocol (IP)
Transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol or TCP/IP
The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite, also referred to as TCP/IP.
The routing protocol computers use to communicate over internet is as under :- TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). The above protocol is used by computers to communicate over internet throughout the world.
The Internet relies on primarily the TCP/IP protocol suite.
www[.]ietf[.]org (internet Engineering Task Force)
IPV5....i am not sure
The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite, also referred to as TCP/IP. IP is the primary protocol in the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite and has the task of delivering distinguished protocol datagrams (packets) from the source host to the destination host solely based on their addresses. For this purpose the Internet Protocol defines addressing methods and structures for datagram encapsulation. The first major version of addressing structure, now referred to as Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) is still the dominant protocol of the Internet, although the successor, Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is being deployed actively worldwide.
internet protocol address
A set of rules used for transferring data over the Internet is called a "protocol".Hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP.
Common Internet Protocol for browsing is TCP/IP.