Brussels, 21/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday, the European Commission adopted a communication entitled "Next Generation Internet: action priority in the migration towards Internet Protocol Ipv6", developed by services under Commissioner Erkki Liikanen. It aims above all at giving political impetus to the development of a new protocol likely to cover all the needs for connection on a global scale.
The Internet as it works today is based on a protocol (IPv4) conceived in the 1970s,...