[kictanet] Internet growth calls for address migration

[Alex Gakuru]

[Folks, incidentally migration to IPv6 from IPv4 is much emphasized at
the internet Governance Forum (or IGF) meetings ending today here at
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - and I have taken very good note of the
consequences of NOT migrating. Various  Kenyans here assembled a team
put up quite an impressive "Best Practices on multi-stakeholders
participation". GoK, CCK, KENET, KIXP, KICTAnet presentations received
accolades:) Thanks KeNIC for excellent read below-- AlexG]
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[Business Daily]
Internet growth calls for address migration
Written by Beatrice Gachenge
November 14, 2007:

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With the advent of more dynamic technology gadgets, more hosts are
encroaching into the Internet, leading to the fast depletion of
Internet protocol addresses commonly known as IP address.  It was
bound to happen, but not as expected.

Who would have thought in the early 1980s that a mobile phone or a
camera phone would be connected to the Internet ? How about
refrigerators, and motor vehicles?

Now, one of the latest gizmos connected to the net is an umbrella,
that has Google Earth navigation on it.  And the experiments are
getting weirder and wilder by the day!

The current protocol in utility today is known as IPV4 that has run
the Internet for more than 20 years. Over the years it has started
showing its limit mainly with the running out of number identifiers
associated to it, known as IP addresses.

IP addresses are used to route traffic on the Internet and can be seen
as the backbone of the Internet and they are used to identify hosts
that are connected to the Internet.

Vincent Ngundi, acting administrative manager of Kenya Network
Information Centre, says that with the Internet becoming part of
everyday life, more people are aggressively using it and most business
processes have now been converted into online applications....
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