Experts call for quick move to next-generation Web protocol

China should move to quickly adopt Internet Protocol version 6, which will offer trillions more of the IP addresses that China badly needs, experts said on Tuesday, the day the new protocol was introduced globally.

"The development of Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6, has been very slow in recent years because previous protocol makers had many IP addresses they could use and were reluctant to draw up new rules," said Xiang Ligang, an Internet expert and CEO of cctime.com, a Chinese telecommunications Internet portal.

"But developing economies, such as China, have a huge demand for new IP addresses."