Internet addresses to be used up in January: expert

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Internet addresses to be used up in January: expert

Agence France-Presse – Fri, 3 Dec 7:50 PM EST

The reserve of available Internet addresses will be used up around the world in

January, warned experts based here.

Internet addresses are distributed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned

Names and Numbers, which provides them to five regional organizations around the

world.

" The pool of central addresses will be used up in January, " said Ernesto Majo,

communications director for the Registry of Internet addresses for Latin America

and the Caribbean, a Montevideo-based non-profit organization.

" This week four blocks of Internet addresses have been used up, " Majo told AFP

Friday. " We are left with only five, and it has been decided that they will be

distributed to each of the regional Internet registries. "

But Majo said the situation was " not serious " because a new Internet protocol

will allow the production of billions more Internet addresses.

The currently used Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) manages about four billion

addresses and has reached its limit, experts said.

But an alternative protocol -- IPv6 -- will allow to register and service

billions new addresses.