Gov’ts Must Intervene to End IP Address Shortage, Says OECD

[IDG] Businesses alone are not doing enough to avert an impending shortage of Internet Protocol addresses, and governments must work with them to secure the future of the Internet economy, according to a report published Thursday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.The number of IP addresses, needed for Web sites, servers and PCs to communicate with one another over the Internet, is limited, and almost 85 percent of addresses are now in use. At the current rate of growth, the pool of available addresses will be exhausted by 2011.To read more of this PC World story, click here.Internet may run out of addresses by 2011, warns OECD
The internet could run out of addresses by 2011, cutting off access to new users and stifling creativity across the globe, unless governments step up their investment, the OECD warned today.The leading economic authority reported today that nearly 85pc of all available internet addresses are already in use, with the remainder likely to be used up within three years.
www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/05/15/bcninternet1.xmlOECD notes IPv4 depletion, nudges governments towards IPv6
In preparation for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ministerial meeting titled “The Future of the Internet Economy” in Seoul next month, the OECD released a report analyzing the rapid depletion of IPv4 addresses. The report cites the commonly held wisdom that addresses for the currently used version of the Internet Protocol (IP) will run out at some time in 2011. With that in mind, the authors recognize that, if we have to choose among wider use of NAT, allowing for address trading, and adopting IPv6, the latter is the only option that works in the long run.
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080515-oecd-notes-ipv4-depletion-nudges-governments-towards-ipv6.htmlLinks to the report and further information are available here.

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