[75777] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Network.Security)
Tue Nov 23 13:02:27 2004
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:01:30 -0600
From: "Network.Security" <Network.Security@target.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>,
"Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>,
"Vince Hoffman" <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Interesting flow...who then enforces ITU "rules"? With what binding
authority? Better yet, let the free market run the business.
Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Owen DeLong
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:23 AM
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum; Vince Hoffman
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP
Addresses
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=20
>> 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.p
>> df
>
> A quote:
>
> "The early allocation of IPv4 addresses resulted in geographic=20
> imbalances and an excessive possession of the address space by early=20
> adopters. This situation was recognized and addressed by the Regional
> Internet Registries (RIRs). However, despite their best efforts, and=20
> even though a very large portion of the IPv4 space has not been =20
> assigned, some believe that there is a shortage of IPv4 addresses and=20
> voice concerns regarding the principles and managements of the current
> system. Some developing countries have raised issues regarding IP=20
> address allocation. It is important to ensure that similar concerns=20
> 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=20
> no cost, and letting the country itself manage this kind of address=20
> in IPv6. By assigning addresses to countries, we will enable any=20
> particular user to choose their preferred source of addresses: either=20
> the countryassigned ones or the region/international-assigned ones."
>
--=20
If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me.
