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Interesting flow...who then enforces ITU "rules"? With what binding authority? Better yet, let the free market run the business. Brad -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Owen DeLong Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:23 AM To: Iljitsch van Beijnum; Vince Hoffman Cc: [email protected] 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 <[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.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." > -- If it wasn't crypto-signed, it probably didn't come from me. |