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Re: Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IPAddresses

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Tue Nov 23 12:21:28 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 <[email protected]> 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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