ICANN head sounds policy alarm on rapidly shrinking Internet space
29 Jan 2010
The internet’s technical governing body plans to make a push to educate the global users of the internet on the network’s latest generation technology known as IPv6, Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), said this week.
Less than 10 percent of internet addresses are available on the current IPv4 system – there’s only about 380 million IPv4 network addresses left and dropping quite quickly, he told the packed conference room on 27 January at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.
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