Last Update: 1:12 PM ET Mar 30, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The original pool of Internet Protocol addresses used to connect devices to the Internet could be exhausted by 2012, a new report shows.
The projection is "the earliest I've ever seen," said Vint Cert, the Google Inc. senior executive who was addressing reporters Friday as chairman of ICANN, an Internet governing body also known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Web address reports like the one just presented at ICANN's Portugal meeting spotlight the growing importance, and prevalence, of the Internet.
The findings also usually curry favor with supporters of a new set of Web addresses, known as IP version 6 or IPV6, that would be enough for every one on earth to have 1,000 different Web addresses apiece. But IPV6 is controversial because it forces companies that rely on the Internet to invest in upgrading their infrastructure, among other expensive changes.
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