Your IP address is a unique identifier, kind of like a mailing address, associated with your online activity. Any time that you use the internet (shopping online, sending emails, streaming TV), you’re requesting access to a specific online destination, and in return, information is sent back to you. How does that work? Well the IP stands for Internet Protocol, which lays out the standards and rules (yes, otherwise known as the protocol) for routing data and connecting to the internet. This protocol is a set of rules each party needs to follow to allow for a bi-directional flow of data.

Tia adressa IP è in identificatur univoc, cumparegliabel cun ina adressa postala, associada cun tias activitads online. Mintga giada che ti dovras l'internet (per exempel per far cumpras online, trametter e-mails u guardar televisiun via streaming) dumondas ti l'access ad ina tscherta destinaziun specifica en l'internet e per la paja ta vegnan tramessas infurmaziuns. Co funcziuna quai? Curt e bain, IP munta «Internet Protocol» e quel definescha ils standards e las reglas (quai che vegn era numnà «protocol») per adressar datas e stabilir la connexiun cun l'internet. Quest protocol cuntegna las reglas che mintga partida sto resguardar per pussibilitar la circulaziun da datas en omaduas direcziuns.