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The European Commission is aiming for one-fourth of businesses, public authorities and households in the European Union to use next-generation Internet addresses by 2010 because the current system is running out of addresses. Pushing people toward Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6, would make available ''an almost unlimited'' number of Web addresses - just as lengthening telephone numbers has allowed more phones to plug in. The EU's internet commissioner said more addresses were needed if Europeans were to use Internet-enabled devices such as smart tags in shops, factories and airports or intelligent heating and lighting systems in their homes. The addresses include long series of numbers to identify a Web connection. Of the 4.3 billion addresses allowed by the address system most people use now, IPv4, only 700 million - or 16 percent - are still available. IPv4 dates to 1984. Moving to a next-generation Internet could be like changing the engines on a moving airplane and cost billions of dollars in replaced networking devices, software and personal computers. But advocates say restructuring of the Web's underlying architecture will improve security, mobility and other emerging needs. Japan's Nippon Telecom and Telegraph has already rolled out a public IPv6 network and China plans to put one in place shortly. But the ball isn't rolling yet in U.S. and Europe, though the U.S. has made IPv6 a condition for government contracts for Web site services. The EU executive called on European governments to follow suit. ''The Commission also wants the most important Web sites of Europe to take the lead and aims to receive commitments from at least 100 top European Web site operators, such as broadcasters or online news services, before the end of 2008,'' it said. The EU's europa.eu Web site will be IPv6-ready by 2010, it promised. |
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