Comment Neelie (Kroes)

[...] Imagine for a moment that no more IP addresses were available; imagine how that would cramp the development of this global resource. Well, if we don't make the change to IPv6, you may not have to imagine for very long: in Europe, total depletion of IPv4 addresses is just around the corner. The solution is to have a larger address space, now. And that means IPv6!