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RE: size of the routing table is a big deal, especially in IPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Johnson)
Mon Nov 29 23:25:04 2004

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:24:42 -0600
From: "Joe Johnson" <jjohnson@jmdn.net>
To: "Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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My preferred solution at this point is for the UN to take over=20
management of the entire Internet and for them to issue a policy of one=20
prefix per country.  This will have all sorts of nasty downsides for=20
national providers and folks that care about optimal routing, but it's=20
the only way that I can see that will allow the Internet to continue to=20
operate over the long term.

Tony
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What happens to non-member states?  What happens to Taiwan, who has not
been a part of the UN for decades?  Does the island nation of Togo get a
prefix, but not Taiwan.  Also, what about North Korea?  Only South Korea
is a member state in the UN.

Next thing you know, they'll be trading prefixes for kick-backs . . .=20

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