The switch to a new Internet address format has begun, as Web overseers look to provide a pool of virtually unlimited addresses to support the growing number of Internet-connected devices.On Monday, records written in IPv6 were added to the Internet's root servers, making it possible for the first time for computer systems to communicate via the Web using only the new format, the London-based BBC news agency reported. The development marks a milestone in the conversion from IPv4.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been working toward the switch for years to avoid a time when there no longer would be enough addresses for all the {{nettingnewsxl}} smartphones {{/nettingnewsxl}} , {{nettingnewsxl}} Internet {{/nettingnewsxl}}-based televisions , and other gadgets hooking up to the Web. If the world continued to use the 30-year-old IPv4, which can accommodate 4.3 billion addresses, then the supply would run out by 2012, if not sooner, experts say.
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