Lack of space may force world wide web to implode
Friday, January 26, 2007 - :27 PM
Topic: 6DEPLOY
Posted by: Jordi

Massive demands being placed on the internet could soon see the network run out of web addresses, technology experts said yesterday.

Although Internet Protocol 4 (IP4), which allows the network to operate, has scope for 4.3 billion web addresses, that was not sufficient to meet demand, said Vinton Cerf, the chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which governs the net.

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