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EU targets IPv6
Categories: Web Design
27 May 2008
The European Union (EU) has set its members targets to adopt new internet protocols.
It announced by 2012, 25 per cent of EU industry, public authorities and households should use the next generation internet protocol, IPv6.
"This is very much a case of a stitch in time saves nine", said Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for Information Society and Media.
"IPv6 provides more addresses in cyberspace than there are grains of sand on the world's beaches," she commented.
Increasing demand for internet services will leave the current system short of space, said the EU.
Computers are only part of the problem. Handheld devices are increasingly able to link to the net, as are smart tags in shops and public information systems.
Ms Reding said we are already facing a thousand-fold increase in demand for IP addresses.
Analysts, IDG, has predicted 2008 will be a year where "web gadgets will further extend the internet".
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