Experts are warning that the internet will run out of space in less than a year. The problem is that there are a rapidly diminishing supply of IP addresses left under the current IPv4 protocol, which only supports 32-bit addressses. IPv6 supports 128-bits meaning it can provide more than enough room for everyone, but the more »

If you thought tidying your 200+ address book entries was painful enough try and imagine what it must be like to be overhauling the whole internet code addressing system!

That is what has just started as the “master address books for the net are being updated to include records prepared in a new format known as IP version 6″, which long term means an end to the shortage of addresses that sites can be given. The current version (IPv4) is expected to exhaust the still unallocated addresses by 2011.