International experts give beginning to "new stage of Internet" in Cartagena

CARTAGENA, Colombia-international Experts gathered in the Colombian port of Cartagena will trace from this Monday the beginning of a "new era" for Internet with an eye toward a historical expansion of their platform, in moments in that the quantity of addresses at world level is next to be drained. 
 
"More than a thousand of people from all over the world congregate in Cartagena (1.100 km to the north of Bogotá) to adopt fundamental decisions around the development and growth of the industry of Internet in the world context", he/she told to the AFP Peter Dengate, president of the corporation Icann (Internet corporation for assigned yams and numbers), responsible to world level of coordinating the names of domain of Internet. 
 
"We will adopt decisions around the introduction of new domain extensions, that that without a doubt it will mark the beginning of a new era and it will change the map completely of (the net) Internet, once the governments adopt the new outline of domains", he/she added. 
 
According to Dengate, the meeting of Cartagena, up to December 10, will mark the transition in the use of the original protocol of Internet (IPv4 - Internet Protocol Version 4) - adopted in the decade of the 80 and with capacity for 4.000 million addresses - and a new generation of protocols (IPv6) that will give trillion trillion new addresses." 
 
"At the moment, less than 150 million addresses IPv4 has not still been assigned and it is probable that for half-filled of 2011 they are already assigned in its entirety, so the necessity to adopt the new generation of protocols is more than urgent", it emphasized. 
 
Diego Molano, Colombian minister of Technologies of the Information, said that his country looks for to pass of 2,2 million connections of wide band in 2010 to 8,8 millions in 2011 and for that reason it sustains the reformation. 
 
"Colombia advances in an expedite way in the conformation of a regulatory mark and a politics of adoption of the protocol IPv6", he/she said to the AFP. 
 
"The meeting of Cartagena is historical because it marks the expansion of Internet. More than three decades ago you creó a platform that we believed enough to supply the market and today sees that it is drained, then it was time to adopt this new possibility that offers us the technology", Juan said Diego he Remains silent, manager of "Co Internet", company that manages the domain ". co", that is to say that of Colombia. 
 
Recently, the registration for Latin America and the Caribbean "Lacnic" it alerted that the quantity of addresses of world Internet will be drained in January, for what urges that operators and governments adopt a new version of the internet protocol (IPv6). 
 
The addresses of Internet group in groups that are distributed by the corporation Icann to the five organizations that are in charge of of each region of the world. 
 
The nets that already work with IPv6 hardly represent 1% of the global traffic, for that that already in June of 2008 Icann it began to discuss in a meeting taken place in Paris about the necessity of using a new version of protocols.