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 This will be the start of several posts that will examine the RFC 791 documentation. RFC 791 covers the Internet Protocol and provides an introduction, overview, and specifications of the protocol. For this post, we'll be reviewing the introduction, as well as outlining some key terminology needed to understand the protocol. This review will be somewhat limited, and may not be overly technical, but it should provide a decent overview of the Internet Protocol.  To start, we'll cover the "who", the "why", and the "how's" of IP and give a small background on the history of the protocol.  We will also cover the basics of packet switching networks, the OSI and TCP/IP, and the structure of Internet datagrams. Hopefully, by the end of this post, you will be able to understand what these concepts are and how they fit into the Internet Protocol, as well as other protocols and standards.  The document we will be examining is RFC 791, this is not the fir...