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OECD Warns World May Run Out of Internet Addresses by 2011
The internet could run out of IP addresses by 2011, leading to new
users or mobile device users not being able to access theinternet
according to an OECD report out this week. The OECD warns that 85 per
cent of all IP addresses are already in use.
The report, Internet Address Space: Economic Considerations in the
Management of IPv4 and in the Deployment of IPv6, has been prepared for
an upcoming OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet
Economy to be held in Korea in mid-June.
The report says governments and business must work together to meet the growing demand for new internet addresses. And how do we get there? The report says the answer is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) which will provide an unlimited number of addresses and help drive the rollout of broadband, Internet-connected mobile phones and sensor networks, and new Internet services.
The report advises that governments and business should raise awareness of the need to start preparing now for the move from today’s IPv4 to IPv6 and explain to ISPs and IT professionals that the move is a commercial and social opportunity, not a financial burden.
Currently many ISPs and IT professionals have been reluctant to invest in the infrastructure required due to the cost in doing so, saying there was not a sufficient return for them to justify the investment.
One way of stimulating demand the report says is for governments in their role as a large user of internet services could stimulate demand for IPv6 through their own procurement policies and public-private partnerships in IPv6 research and development.
The OECD report also considers the alternative to a widespread adoption of IPv6 whereby some regions adopt it and others merely adapt IPv4 as a short-term solution. This, it warns, would impact the economic opportunities offered by the Internet with severe consequences in terms of stifled creativity and deployment of new services.
Some countries have taken a lead in deploying IPv6 networks. The Japanese telecommunications firm NTT, for example, uses IPv6 to connect thousands of earthquake sensors via a computer system that sends automatic alerts to television programmes and turns traffic lights red. This type of application requires millions of addresses so cannot work on today's Internet but already does on IPv6.
The United States government has set June 2008 as the deadline by which the Internet network of every government agency must be compatible with IPv6. The European Commission is also funding research projects and looking at ways to speed up deployment.
Korea, the venue of the forthcoming OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy, has committed to converting Internet equipment in public institutions to IPv6 by 2010 and to installing IPv6 equipment in every newly built communications network.
The Chinese government has begun rolling out an IPv6 network, called China Next Generation Internet, and will use the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to test mobile devices and intelligent transport and security systems running on IPv6.
To read the 71 page report in full, see www.oecd.org/dataoecd/7/1/40605942.pdf.
A news release on the report is available from www.oecd.org/document/29/0,3343,en_2649_201185_40542045_1_1_1_1,00.html.
The report says governments and business must work together to meet the growing demand for new internet addresses. And how do we get there? The report says the answer is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) which will provide an unlimited number of addresses and help drive the rollout of broadband, Internet-connected mobile phones and sensor networks, and new Internet services.
The report advises that governments and business should raise awareness of the need to start preparing now for the move from today’s IPv4 to IPv6 and explain to ISPs and IT professionals that the move is a commercial and social opportunity, not a financial burden.
Currently many ISPs and IT professionals have been reluctant to invest in the infrastructure required due to the cost in doing so, saying there was not a sufficient return for them to justify the investment.
One way of stimulating demand the report says is for governments in their role as a large user of internet services could stimulate demand for IPv6 through their own procurement policies and public-private partnerships in IPv6 research and development.
The OECD report also considers the alternative to a widespread adoption of IPv6 whereby some regions adopt it and others merely adapt IPv4 as a short-term solution. This, it warns, would impact the economic opportunities offered by the Internet with severe consequences in terms of stifled creativity and deployment of new services.
Some countries have taken a lead in deploying IPv6 networks. The Japanese telecommunications firm NTT, for example, uses IPv6 to connect thousands of earthquake sensors via a computer system that sends automatic alerts to television programmes and turns traffic lights red. This type of application requires millions of addresses so cannot work on today's Internet but already does on IPv6.
The United States government has set June 2008 as the deadline by which the Internet network of every government agency must be compatible with IPv6. The European Commission is also funding research projects and looking at ways to speed up deployment.
Korea, the venue of the forthcoming OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy, has committed to converting Internet equipment in public institutions to IPv6 by 2010 and to installing IPv6 equipment in every newly built communications network.
The Chinese government has begun rolling out an IPv6 network, called China Next Generation Internet, and will use the 2008 Olympics in Beijing to test mobile devices and intelligent transport and security systems running on IPv6.
To read the 71 page report in full, see www.oecd.org/dataoecd/7/1/40605942.pdf.
A news release on the report is available from www.oecd.org/document/29/0,3343,en_2649_201185_40542045_1_1_1_1,00.html.