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Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leen Besselink)
Tue Mar 2 17:38:43 2010

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:38:29 +0100
From: Leen Besselink <leen@consolejunkie.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <541B85C5-1FB0-4D20-B62A-15D4222E4E78@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


>> Not comparing this to the former-DDR or Chinese situation (please refer
>> to my tin-foil remark above) a per-country specific prefix is not
>> necessarily a bad thing and may even have an upside.
>>
>>      
> Care to explain what that could possibly be? (I simply don't see an
> upside to making it easy to censor the internet by national identity).
>
>    

Maintenance of "GeoIP"-databases becomes easier and less error-prone ?

Possible less out of date because of it.

We've seen complaints about those many times on this list.



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