[75776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Nov 23 12:20:27 2004
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:23:28 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <F163919A-3D51-11D9-8461-000A95CD987A@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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Of course, then, the developing countries (and, more importantly, the=20
countries
with large viral or spammer populations) are then faced with the question
of whether anyone will route their prefixes. Won't that make the ITU =
happy.
Owen
--On Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:16 PM +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum=20
<iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
>
> 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."
>
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