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RATIONALE - Why a myriad of new Top-Level-Domains will rise Since some early gurus predicted that every single electronic or electric item like telephones, refrigerators or even mobile connected motor vehicles connected to the Internet will use an IP address as unique identification the rumor of an IP number shortage crunch goes around. And indeed people who predicted the end of Internet because there simply wouldn't be enough IPv4 32-bit IP addresses (4.3 billion possible addresses) for all the devices were not so wrong. The idea was that the Internet would simply run out of namespace for new computers by 2006 or so became real.

In Korea for instance, according to the Korean Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, "the most advanced country in the world in terms of broadband Internet network connections," there simply weren't enough IPv4 addresses, 23.6 million, to go around so Korea has quickly adopted IPv6.” Today, IPv6 is very popular also in other Asian countries like China and India, and is supported by such major operating systems as Microsoft's Server 2003, XP, Apple's Mac OSX, and Linux. It also has hardware support from such major network switch and route vendors as Cisco, Juniper Networks, and Foundry Networks. To overcome this obstacle at the 2004 meeting in Kuala Lumpur the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has added an IPv6 nameserver address to the Internet's DNS root server system. This is a step that promises not only to solve to solve a possible shortage of IP addresses and domain names, which by the way achieved a new all-time high in registrations with 65 million Top-Level-Domain Names (TLDs) end of 2004. With IPv6, which supports a 128-bit address space (in detail 340 282 366 920 938 463 463 374 607 431 768 211 456 IP addresses), the stage is set for a myriad of know and future devices and domain names to be uniquely addressed as the Internet continues to grow. Ipv6 also supports emerging requirements for address space, mobility, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and security in peer-to-peer (P2P) networking and will provide entrepreneurs with opportunities for innovation. By taking this significant step forward in the transition to IPv6, ICANN is supporting the innovations through which the Internet evolves to meet the growing needs of a global economy. Localized domain names like .chicago and personalized domain names like .smith are desirable innovative applications for IPv6. With IPv6 even every person worldwide living today and in future generations can get an own IP address as unique identifier. Mass adoption of these IPv6 applications is probably only a few years away. HOMEPAGE

RATIONALE - Why a myriad of new Top-Level-Domains will rise