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Internet
will run out of IP addresses by Friday
Thursday February 03, 2011 03:57:25 PM,
IANS
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London:
The internet will run out of numerical IP (Internet Protocol)
addresses by Friday. But the web will not ground to a halt. A new
system, Internet Protocol version 6 or IPv6, will replace version
4.
Every device connected to the net is assigned a number. But with
millions of web enabled phones now online, the numbers are running
out.
The system, set up in the 1980s with a maximum of 4.1 billion
addresses, was supposed to never run out. The original creators of
the web initially thought it would be used only for academic
purposes.
IP addresses act as phone numbers to ensure that surfers reach
websites and e-mails and find their destination, the Daily Mail
reports.
The authority that governs such addresses will distribute the last
batches Thursday.
"It will just be 'business as usual' if everyone gets their job
done," said John Curran, chief executive of the American Registry
for Internet Numbers, one of five regional groups that dole out
such addresses. They cover the US, Canada and the Caribbean.
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