No Internet addresses by 2010!
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By Priyanka Das
Mumbai: If a report submitted by the European commission has to be believed, the Internet may not have enough addresses for users soon. That may happen in 2010 as well.
Only 17% of the total 610 educational institutes, organizations etc have used the latest internet addressing technique. This new technique is called IPv6.
This commission had conducted survey on institutes and organizations in the following global regions: Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Though the addresses we are talking about here are not the names used on the url bar. These are the addresses behind the url names you put to browse your favorite institute’s website.
These are the unique Internet protocol addresses, which are used for denoting individual devices. These addresses are used for all online communication including, voice chat, email id etc.
F5 Networks’ Lead enterprise engineer Sam Pickles informed “We’ll be down to our last tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of web addresses by the end of next year”.
He added “New companies looking to establish a presence on the internet will have no option but to adopt the IPv6 address format.”