Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP Addresses

Tue Nov 23 13:16:53 UTC 2004

On 22-nov-04, at 21:16, Vince Hoffman wrote:

> "This memorandum includes a proposal to create a new IPv6 address 
> 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.pdf

A quote:

"The early allocation of IPv4 addresses resulted in geographic 
imbalances and an  excessive possession of the address space by early 
adopters. This situation was  recognized and addressed by the Regional 
Internet Registries (RIRs). However, despite  their best efforts, and 
even though a very large portion of the IPv4 space has not been  
assigned, some believe that there is a shortage of IPv4 addresses and 
voice concerns  regarding the principles and managements of the current 
system. Some developing  countries have raised issues regarding IP 
address allocation. It is important to ensure that  similar concerns 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 
no cost, and letting the country itself  manage this kind of address in 
IPv6. By assigning addresses to countries, we will enable  any 
particular user to choose their preferred source of addresses: either 
the countryassigned ones or the region/international-assigned ones."