UDP6

User Datagram Protocol Version 6 (UDP6) is a computer communication protocol used to exchange packets on a network. UDP6 has the following characteristics:

• UDP uses only source and destination information and is mainly used in the simple request/response structure.
• UDP is unreliable. That is, no control is provided. Thus, it is uncertain whether UDP6 data-grams reach their destinations.
• UDP is connectionless. That is, no virtual circuits are required during data transmission between hosts.

The connectionless feature of UDP6 enables UDP6 to send data to broadcast addresses. This is different from TCP6, which requires specific source and destination addresses.