The looming shortage of IPv4 addresses, and the need to start using IPv6 addresses, is a frequent topic these days, and it was addressed this week at an EU ministerial conference in Nice, France, a conference organised as part of the French presidency of the EU.

The conference was told there needs to be an orderly transition to IPv6 with a recent policy paper from the European Commission suggesting that by 2010, at least 25 per cent of internet addresses in Europe should be updated to IPv6.

The EurActiv article on which the above information was sourced is available from www.euractiv.com/en/infosociety/eu-warns-digital-gap-ip-numbers-dry/article-176127.

The website for the “Internet of the Future” Ministerial Conference is available here.

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