[81177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri May 27 18:57:40 2005
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 22:57:17 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Nanog Mailing list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <17047.42154.318865.950243@roam.psg.com>
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On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:52:26PM -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> btw, i just remembered something from the distant past which is
> relevant to geoff's stuff on the wsis geo allocation kink.
>
> jon postel tried per-country allocations back in the late '80s.
> this was especially in the new african networks. e.g. a block
> to south africa etc.
>
> both south africa and jon found it to be a disaster and backed
> out. uneven policy. big waste. horrible local political
> pressure on the local allocator. ... it was a mess and gained
> nothing.
>
> unfortunately jon has since died, as has vic shaw the main guy
> on the south african end. but folk over there such as mike
> lawrie, jacot guillarmad, chris pinkham, alan barrett should
> remember. and i have some of the email, fwiw.
there are archives in several places...
>
> not that any of this will change the minds of those thinking
> this a path to increased power.
>
> randy
