| According to a report on the future of the world wide web by Karine Perset-from the Organization For Economic Co-operation(OECD),
"The internet could run out of web addresses by 2011, undermining the potential of businesses to use new services and applications."
As told to Forbes.com,
"85% of all remaining internet addresses that could be used, were being used, and the rest could be taken within three years."
As internet allows the businesses to expand on their services and monitor activities from afar, more than a billion new users were added to the world wide web in 2007.
According to Perset,
"Businesses must adopt an updated IP network with almost an unlimited number of domains to help expand services and applications even further. Companies are not upgrading their IP addresses as quickly as they should. And changing an entire protocol requires time. By the time they start thinking about it, they probably won't be able to find the right expertise or they won't be able to grow their network."
"The smart ones like Google or the large American engineering company Bechtel have already migrated to the updated IP network, Perset added."
Perset further added,
"Government and businesses need to start preparing now for the move. Any last-minute reaction to this problem will only generate panic, the setup will not be very stable, we could see the network going down and nowadays we can't afford for things to break." |
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