This document discusses Internet Protocol (IP) which is the fundamental protocol that defines how devices communicate over the internet. IP provides a connectionless datagram service and uses mechanisms like routing tables, fragmentation and reassembly, and addressing to transmit data packets between devices. Key aspects of IP include its use of routing tables to determine the next hop for packets, placing time to live values on packets to prevent looping, and including fragmentation information to reassemble packets at the destination when they are split across networks.