[96207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Mon Apr 23 17:09:33 2007
In-Reply-To: <200704232103.l3NL3hYr067704@lava.sentex.ca>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:05:13 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> 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...
Which is fine.
Besides, no gov't _can_ have the single authority. You can always
ignore what other people sign or do not sign.
That said, I completely agree the DHS shouldn't have even the modicum
of power holding the keys would give it.
--
TTFN,
patrick
