The shortage of IP addresses threat terminals converging
By admin at 16 May, 2008, 6:53 pm
An OECD report warns governments and companies against the risk of a shortage of IP addresses that could disrupt the economy linked to the Internet. The only solution: the accelerated deployment of IPv6.
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) sounds the alarm in a report on the shortage of IP addresses provided by the IPv4. In May 2008, 85% of addresses are allocated and what remains leaves three years in advance.
However, new types of appliances will be continuously connected to the Internet in the coming years, including mobile phones, electronic gadgets, equipment type MID (Mobile Internet Device) and sensors. A shortage of IP addresses free could therefore affect the economy linked to the Internet.
To prevent this catastrophe announced, the OECD wants to attract the attention of governments and enterprises on the importance of migration of IPv4 to the IPv6, which will provide a virtually inexhaustible reserves of new addresses.
A migration in a fragmented
The organization notes that service providers have so far drawn little investment in this direction due to low demand from their customers. Governments, as major users of Internet services (public institutions) must lead the way to boost the demand for IPv6.
OECD advises setting up a two-tier system, with some regions moving to IPv6 while others remain in IPv4, in the sense that it would create bottlenecks and could affect economic developments .
The Japan shows the example with the use of the IPv6 to connect thousands of seismic sensors for the prevention of earthquakes in the archipelago, providing data in real time and connected to a computer system that can react immediately to a threat to broadcasting a warning message on television networks and by passing all traffic lights to red. This architecture seeks millions of IP addresses that can not be provided as IPv6.
Other countries have also planned migration, such as USA, including government agencies should operate in IPv6 from June 2008, the Korea who will do the same for its public institutions by 2010, or China For the benefit of the Olympics in Beijing this summer to test mobile equipment and other logistics systems on its network IPv6. In Europe, there is also considering the issue.
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