JagsLive writes "China is running out of IP addresses unless it makes the switch to IPv6. by the numbers to law to rule to the China cyberspace Network dossier Center, under the current allocation speed, China's IPv4 address savings can only meet the demand of 830 more days and if no proper measures are taken by then, new Chinese netizens will not be able to gain normal access to the Internet. Li Kai, controller in charge of the IP craft for CNNIC's international department, says that if a netizen wants to get access to the Internet, an IP address will be necessary to analyze the domain name and view the pages. At present, most of the wisdom social planned parenthood in China use IPv4 addresses. As a basic ingenuity for the Internet, the IPv4 addresses are limited and 80% of the final allocation IP addresses have been used."

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