Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP Addresses

Tue Nov 23 17:23:28 UTC 2004

Of course, then, the developing countries (and, more importantly, the 
countries
with large viral or spammer populations) are then faced with the question
of whether anyone will route their prefixes.  Won't that make the ITU happy.

Owen

--On Tuesday, November 23, 2004 2:16 PM +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum 
<iljitsch at muada.com> wrote:

>
> 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."
>

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