网际协议（英语：Internet Protocol，缩写为 IP），或称互联网协议，是用于报文交换网络的一种面向数据的协议。

IP是在TCP/IP协议中网络层的主要协议，任务是仅仅根据源主机和目的主机的地址传送数据。为此目的，IP定义了寻址方法和数据报的封装结构。第一个架构的主要版本，现在称为IPv4，仍然是最主要的互联网协议，尽管世界各地正在积极部署IPv6。

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the principal communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet.

IP has the task of delivering packets from the source host to the destination host solely based on the IP addresses in the packet headers. For this purpose, IP defines packet structures that encapsulate the data to be delivered. It also defines addressing methods that are used to label the datagram with source and destination information.