European commission focuses on need of new Internet protocol version
A new danger is emerging in the realm of Internet; it is regarding the longevity of web addresses and unless some potent measures are adopted, the same may become a thing of the past. Well, I am not joking and quite serious since the same views have been disseminated by the European commission itself. In accordance with the European commission, the world could well run out of Internet addresses next year if not a new Internet protocol version six or IPv6 is adopted in next to no time.
What will be the basic nature and also purpose of this new Internet protocol version six or IPv6? It has been learnt that the novel version IPv6 will provide billions of new addresses. It must be stated even though the IPv6 system has been ready for over a decade, still the majority of the companies are not ready to transfer to the new platform referring lots of reasons.
What is more, as stated by the statistics, the new system will render up to 340 trillion, trillion, trillion web addresses. Statistics too shows that IPv4 can support up to 4.3 billion unique addresses, IPv6 will make use of 128-bit web address instead of 32-bit address facilitating a wider web addressing method. Let’s share some info of IPv4 and IPv6 then.IPv4 and IPv6, by and large, happens to be the web protocols used in creating and assigning web addresses to a variety of sites. Each website is represented by a unique IP address, represented by a string of numbers like 192.168.1.1. It seems that European Commission is getting anxious and hence it has warned that the judicious deployment of the protocol is essential to the growth and stability of the Internet.
As stated by Deale Eckert, Director in Commission's information society and media directorate-general, in the last 10 years, the Internet has become immensely significant worldwide from a socio-economic perspective. He also said that simply by means of ensuring all devices connected to the internet are compatible with IPv6 the global community can stay connected and defend sustainable growth of the Internet and the global digital economy.
