The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is one of the main issues addressed
this week at RIPE 57 in Dubai - hosted by Etisalat. This is the first
meeting for the RIPE NCC (Network Coordination Centre) in Dubai.
“We knew for more than 10 years that we would run out of addresses,”
said Axel Pawlik, the managing director of the RIPE Network
Coordination Centre (NCC). “But the reach of the internet has grown
much faster than a lot of people expected, so now it is more important
to find solutions.”
Meanwhile, .ae (ccTLD for United Arab Emirates) is likely to become the
first ccTLD in the world to introduce internationalised domain names in
the third quarter of 2009 Mohammad Al Zarouni, chief technology officer
at the .ae Domain Administration of the Telecommunications Regulatory
Authority (TRA) told Gulf News. He added that the UAE "will very likely
be the first country" worldwide where a complete non-English domain
name would be available.
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