[96206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Mon Apr 23 17:06:44 2007
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:04:17 -0400
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <2FBB382B-095B-4A95-8C7F-0DAF672DD48A@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 04:52 PM 4/23/2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>I do not want any particular gov't (US or otherwise) to be "in
>charge" of the Internet any more than the next person. And good
>thing too, because it simply cannot happen, political pipe-dreams not
>withstanding.
>
>But what has that got to do with the DHS promoting an idea to sign IP
>space allocations and/or annoucements? The idea in-and-of-itself
>doesn't sound wholly unreasonable. (I am not advocating this, just
>saying the idea shouldn't be rejected without consideration simply
>because the DHS said it.)
The question is who would do the signing and revocations. Whoever
does that would indeed have a great amount of control over the
internet. A single government agency should not have that sort of
power to make a (for lack of better term), "no surf list" of IP space...
---Mike
