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United States Seen Lagging Behind in Developing “New Internet:”
IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer Online Article

WASHINGTON (17 October 2005) — Although the Internet was created and developed in the United States, the country is lagging behind in developing the “New Internet,” according to an October article in IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer Online.

This “New Internet” is expected to depend upon Internet Protocol Version 6, or IPv6, which is replacing the nearly 20-year-old Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4). But leadership of this enhanced, next-generation Internet is in Asia and Europe. The economic consequences could be dire for the United States, according to Today’s Engineer.

“The New Internet has the potential to create 10 million new American jobs and trillions of dollars in revenue for the United States,” Alex Lightman, chair of the upcoming United States IPv6 Summit, told Today’s Engineer, “but leadership is slipping away to other countries, and it will soon be difficult, if not impossible to recover.”

Experts say that perhaps IPv6’s greatest advantage over IPv4 is in the vast increase in available Internet addresses, or unique numbers assigned to each machine on the Internet. More addresses are needed to support future Internet-dependent computer growth in homes, businesses, cars and mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants). With IPv6, trillions of times more addresses will be available worldwide.

IPv6 proponents also say the protocol offers improvements in routing and network autoconfiguration, is compatible with 3G wireless (near) broadband, supports greater mobility and offers enhanced system security.

To read “IPv6 Transition and the ‘New Internet,’” go to www.todaysengineer.org/2005/Oct/ipv6.asp.

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