Version 4 of the Internet Protocol is the fourth version in the development of the Internet Protocol, and also the first version of the protocol widely implemented and used. The top version is IPv6, and all IPv6 implementation phases lasted until 2011, when IA's IPv4 addresses were completely exhausted. Usually, your public IP address is an IPv4 address. IPv4 consists of decimal numbers separated by points, such as: 8.8.8.8