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September 20, 2012

Europe hits old internet address limits

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By Mark Ward, BBC News

Europe’s stock of old-style net addresses has effectively run dry. Strict rationing of these addresses – called IPv4 – has been started by the body that hands them out in Europe. From now on, companies can only make one more application for IPv4 addresses and, if successful, will only get 1,024 of them. In addition, any application for more old addresses must demonstrate how an organisation is using the new, replacement, addressing scheme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19600718#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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