[172497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 19 18:55:04 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <21411.8970.191029.86423@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:52:45 -0700
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:51 , Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
>=20
> On June 19, 2014 at 04:01 owen@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote:
>> ICANN !=3D a good sampling of number resource issues or concerns.
>>=20
>> As you noticed, the whole mess with domain names and their IP issues
>> is the monetary tail that wags the ICANN dog. ICANN barely pays =
attention
>> to number resources and when they do, it=92s primarily to do whatever =
has
>> been agreed upon by the policy processes in the various RIRs.
>>=20
>> This is actually a good thing and we should seek to preserve this =
fact
>> after ICANN loses its =93adult supervision=94.
>=20
> Really. You're really completely discounting ICANN in having any
> leadership or participative role in the IPv4/IPv6 transition?
No. They have some role. They just don't have any leadership role and =
are
not a point to apply any meaningful pressure.
Owen
