Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP Addresses

Tue Nov 23 18:01:30 UTC 2004

Interesting flow...who then enforces ITU "rules"?  With what binding
authority?  Better yet, let the free market run the business.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Owen DeLong
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:23 AM
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum; Vince Hoffman
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP
Addresses

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.p
>> df
>
> 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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