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United States Seen Lagging Behind in Developing
“New Internet:”
IEEE-USA Today’s Engineer Online Article
WASHINGTON (17 October 2005)
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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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