"Americans have been hogging Internet addresses for decades, leaving late-comers like China to divvy up the few remaining slivers. But China is fighting back by vaulting to an addressing standard that could rewrite the rules of the Internet—and business innovation—for decades to come".

http://www.cio.com/archive/071506/china.html?action=print

IPv6 has been around for awhile and was not invented by the Chinese

Emergence is not synonymous with inventing

Wow. I don't know if I'd totally detest living this way or learn to completely depend on it in a matter of hours. Maybe both.

As George W. Bush ineloquently said one time, "We live in a global world." If this is really the future of IPv6 (or similar foreign internet ventures), preventing usage of this technology in the United States is virtually impossible. The best we can do is compete with and/or capitalize on this as well as other innovations on the horizon. Wouldn't it be nice if the technology race replaced the arms race?

China needs a new internet because they are not able to cover all the anti-government acts using the government. No democracy you know. I guess this is the main reason.

Had you read the article before you posted your reply you would have deducted that the Chinese are:
Too many, too smart, too proud and too ambitious to enter the internet era under someone else's rules and conditions. Welcome, by the way, Mr. President.

I understand that the US is lagging behind the availability of broadband too. I understand that many fiber optic pipes have been installed but not implemented mainly because telcos want to keep the bottle necks as an incentive to charge more moolah, to create monopolies and cartels of the pipelines in a nonequitable apportioning, scarcity breeding more control and higher monetary margins. Internet neutrality is fought with the idea that more money needs to be made by the pipeline owners in order to provide the big pipes. I understand that broadband is cheaper and more readily available elsewhere on the planet than in the US, such as in Europe and now I suspect, also in China. I wonder what Europe is doing with IPv6?

I said it before and I will say it again--we have alot to learn from China (or as I phrased it prior, "as far as I can see China is kicking the US in the balls left and right").

Before there is a comment about the fact that China didn't invent the technology, I will state that I really don't care at least they are trying to utilize it.

I know many Japanese who would laugh at this statement. It even makes me laugh and I'm not Japanese. Know why? Open your eyes and tell me what the Chinese have contributed of any scientific or technological merit. There are way too many Chinese and they contribute little to the betterment of humanity through advancing science or technology. So what does that say about the Chinese? Draw your own conclusions.

China is just like N. Korea, only bigger. How great is that?

"For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under MAO Zedong established an autocratic socialist system that, while ensuring China's sovereignty, imposed strict controls over everyday life and cost the lives of tens of millions of people. After 1978, his successor DENG Xiaoping and other leaders focused on market-oriented economic development and by 2000 output had quadrupled. For much of the population, living standards have improved dramatically and the room for personal choice has expanded, yet political controls remain tight.

The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in October 2005 approved the draft 11th Five-Year Plan and the National People's Congress is expected to give final approval in March 2006. The plan calls for a 20% reduction in energy consumption per unit of GDP by 2010 and an estimated 45% increase in GDP by 2010." --[url=https://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html[/url]

15-64 year olds make up 71.4% of the population of China (as opposed to 67.2% of our population) the median age being 32.7 years old. Expect big things from China in the years to come--they have a tremendous workforce at their disposal.

Advancing science and technology: in my area (San Francisco) alone the estimate cost of the Iraq war on tax payers is at about $1,144,000,000 (http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182). I could think of many ways that money could be better spent to advance science, technology and humanity in general. I hope the Japanese are laughing at us as well...I am "American" and it even makes me laugh.