[75769] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Tue Nov 23 08:18:51 2004
In-Reply-To: <20041122195933.Q2763@unsane.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:16:53 +0100
To: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 22-nov-04, at 21:16, Vince Hoffman wrote:
> "This memorandum includes a proposal to create a new IPv6 address
> space distribution process, based solely on national authorities.
This is not exactly what it says in
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/itut-wsis/files/zhao-netgov01.pdf
A quote:
"The early allocation of IPv4 addresses resulted in geographic
imbalances and an excessive possession of the address space by early
adopters. This situation was recognized and addressed by the Regional
Internet Registries (RIRs). However, despite their best efforts, and
even though a very large portion of the IPv4 space has not been
assigned, some believe that there is a shortage of IPv4 addresses and
voice concerns regarding the principles and managements of the current
system. Some developing countries have raised issues regarding IP
address allocation. It is important to ensure that similar concerns do
not arise with respect to IPv6. I have discussed with some industry
experts my idea to reserve a block of IPv6 addresses for allocation by
authorities of countries, that is, assigning a block to a country at
no cost, and letting the country itself manage this kind of address in
IPv6. By assigning addresses to countries, we will enable any
particular user to choose their preferred source of addresses: either
the countryassigned ones or the region/international-assigned ones."
