| New call for action on Net expansion | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 04:54 PM | |||
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A European Commission body has made a renewed call for action on a protocol that will prevent the Internet from running out of space. | ||
| The European Commission IPv6 Task Force, formed almost two years ago, has again reiterated the importance of IPv6, which is effectively a new numbering system for the Internet that will allow for an almost incomprehensible number of Internet addresses. The current system, IPv4, only allows for about 4 billion addresses, which is not enough to give every person their own IP address.
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