Towards the Future Internet: Opportunities with NEW IP

— The fast change in the number of internet-connected devices and the inadequacy of existing IP framework necessitates the timely evolution of current packet and information exchange protocols employed in existing networks. This paper dispels New IP, a system developed to address the current encumbrances hindering the growth of traditional IPv4 and IPv6 systems, such as lack of scalability, security, real-time quality-of-service (QoS), and restructuring merit in regard to today are three essential fields: IoT, 5G, and autonomous systems. New IP adds exciting functionalities in terms of variable-length addressing, built-in security, determinism, and energy-efficient processing for state-of-the-art applications. The framework would be design-aware and employ metadata-based configurability, awareness-based routing, and network slicing capabilities toward low latency/high reliability in the support of enhanced QoS. Efficiency in terms of low latency and high-demand bandwidth is illustrated through charming usage cases in industrial IoT and telemedicine. While New IP provides various beneficial perks against existing protocols like flexibility, scalability, and better synergy with tomorrow's technologies, the wide adoption of the said protocol shall once again be the causative agent of change due to overhauling existing infrastructure, compatibility, and centralization-and network neutrality concerns. This paper provides a comparison of New IP with IPv4 and IPv6, specifying its additional merits while also laying bare directions for future work concerning real-world deployment and migration strategies.