Advertisement

Keeping abreast of addresses

Reading Time:2 minutes
Why you can trust SCMP
0

Imagine if you had to assign a different address of a limited length to every home in a large and rapidly growing neighbourhood. You would soon run out of number combinations.

The World-Wide Web equivalent - governing the distribution and usage of Internet protocol (IP) addresses in Asia-Pacific - is a tough job, as Paul Wilson, the director-general of Apnic, has discovered.

Apnic, the Asian-Pacific Network Information Centre, doles out IP addresses to individuals and companies on the basis of need and demand.

Mr Wilson recently was on a whirlwind tour of the region to meet the members and Internet service providers they serve.

Hong Kong has the second-greatest number of IP addresses in Apnic, after Japan.

In 1996, Apnic established Apricot (Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies), a convention that focuses on Internet technologies in the region.

Advertisement
Select Voice
Choose your listening speed
Get through articles 2-3x faster
1.1x
220 WPM
Slow
Normal
Fast
1.1x