[106829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Thu Aug 14 13:30:46 2008
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: brett watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AA0274E-6D92-4657-9273-4B74571D837C@the-watsons.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:30:34 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:47 AM, brett watson wrote:
> We're lacking the authority and delegation model that DNS has, I
> think?
If one were to ignore layer 9 politics, it could be argued the
authority/delegation models between DNS and address space are quite
analogous.
DNS:
IANA maintains "." ("dig @ns.iana.org . axfr") and delegates portions
of the namespace to top-level domain registries
Top-level domain registries delegate parts of their namespaces to
second-level domain registries (typically end users)
Address space:
IANA maintains the top-level address registry (http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/
and http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-
assignments) and delegates portions of the address space to RIRs.
RIRs delegate parts of their address space to LIRs/ISPs/end users.
Of course, ignoring layer 9 politics can be a bit challenging.
Regards,
-drc
