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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN etc
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:52:26PM -0400, Randy Bush wrote: > > btw, i just remembered something from the distant past which is > relevant to geoff's stuff on the wsis geo allocation kink. > > jon postel tried per-country allocations back in the late '80s. > this was especially in the new african networks. e.g. a block > to south africa etc. > > both south africa and jon found it to be a disaster and backed > out. uneven policy. big waste. horrible local political > pressure on the local allocator. ... it was a mess and gained > nothing. > > unfortunately jon has since died, as has vic shaw the main guy > on the south african end. but folk over there such as mike > lawrie, jacot guillarmad, chris pinkham, alan barrett should > remember. and i have some of the email, fwiw. there are archives in several places... > > not that any of this will change the minds of those thinking > this a path to increased power. > > randy
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