Media News - Thursday, September 25, 2008

China may face Internet address shortage

China could be nearing an Internet address crunch. Under the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address resources can only meet the demand of approximately 830 days. If there is no new resource available by then, new Netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet and it will be impossible for network operators to expand their business, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). If a Netizen wants to get access to the Internet, an IP address will be necessary to analyze the domain name and view the pages, said Li Kai, director in charge of the IP business for CNNIC's international department. At present, most of the networks in China use IPv4 addresses. As a basic resource for the Internet, the IPv4 addresses are limited and 80 percent of the final allocation IP addresses have been used. Li said that a new IPv6 network address, which is a basic network resource without these limitations, has been developed in America. However, this type of IP address is only used among educational Web sites in China. To use the IPv6 address, network operators need to spend a lot of time and money on updating their equipment. CNNIC has started hosting seminars to remind the operators to apply for the remaining IP addresses as soon as possible, and to prepare for the provision of IPv6 addresses to Netizens. (ZDNet Asia)

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