TAG | Panic stations! Internet addresses running out says OECD |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 16 May 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 He was not far wrong: In June 2005, the United States' Office of Management Budget) set June 2008 as the deadline by which all agencies' infrastructure (network backbones) must be using IPv6 and agency networks must be interfacing with this infrastructure.From Huston's point of view, despite the importance of IPv6 its universal deployment is far from certain. "Strangely enough, this is not seen as a high priority item by many major ISPs in today’s Internet, and there is still no particular certainty that industry will adopt IPv6," he says. Such a scenario could seriously compromise the universal nature of the Internet; " If the Internet heads in a direction of realm-based local addressing how do applications and services operate across the entire network in a fashion that still permits coherence and integrity of operation? What parts of the conventional internet architecture still apply in such an environment, and what aspects of the network necessarily change? To what extent do we understand the broader implications of this particular challenge in terms of the longer term outcomes of the cost and utility of communications infrastructure and the activities and services that rely on such infrastructure? Seems like Governments need to heed the OECD's warnings and act, before it is too late.
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