Internet will run out of addresses by 2010
ANI
Melbourne: The Internet will run out of addresses in another two years as only
700 million separate addresses are remaining for allocation out of the 4.3
billion available on the present network.
When originally developed, Internet planners assumed four billion IP addresses
would serve the world when using the Internet, The Australian reported.
Geoff Huston – chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre,
which manages address allocation within the region – said he hovered between
calling the situation a challenge or a crisis.
A shortfall in addresses would stifle networking of small and simple devices
for energy management for lighting, intelligent building systems and
remote-control
sensors.
In order to address the situation, all Internet users would have to move to an
upgraded platform – called
Internet Protocol v6. This technology would allow access to the 340
trillion-trillion-trillion new addresses needed to connect not only billions of
new
users, but also the trillions of sensor devices that will require networking as
technology takes greater control of people’s lives.
“IPv6 provides more addresses in cyberspace than there are grains of sands on
the world’s beaches,” said Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information
Society.
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