Editing Internet protocol suite (section)

==Implementations==
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The Internet protocol suite does not presume any specific hardware or software environment.  It only requires that hardware and a software layer exists that is capable of sending and receiving packets on a computer network. As a result, the suite has been implemented on essentially every computing platform. A minimal implementation of TCP/IP includes the following: [[Internet Protocol]] (IP), [[Address Resolution Protocol]] (ARP), [[Internet Control Message Protocol]] (ICMP), [[Transmission Control Protocol]] (TCP), [[User Datagram Protocol]] (UDP), and [[Internet Group Management Protocol]] (IGMP). In addition to IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, Internet Protocol version 6 requires [[Neighbor Discovery Protocol]] (NDP), [[ICMPv6]], and [[Multicast Listener Discovery]] (MLD) and is often accompanied by an integrated [[IPSec]] security layer.