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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:52 PM 4/23/2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > >I do not want any particular gov't (US or otherwise) to be "in > >charge" of the Internet any more than the next person. And good > >thing too, because it simply cannot happen, political pipe-dreams not > >withstanding. > > > >But what has that got to do with the DHS promoting an idea to sign IP > >space allocations and/or annoucements? The idea in-and-of-itself > >doesn't sound wholly unreasonable. (I am not advocating this, just > >saying the idea shouldn't be rejected without consideration simply > >because the DHS said it.) > > The question is who would do the signing and revocations. Whoever > does that would indeed have a great amount of control over the > internet. A single government agency should not have that sort of > power to make a (for lack of better term), "no surf list" of IP space... I think the strawman proposals so far were something like: 1) iana has 'root' ca-cert 2) iana signs down certs for RIR's 3) RIR's sign down certs for LIR's 4) LIR's sign down certs for 'users' (where 'users' is probably address-space users, like corporations or end-sites) This seemed not-too-insane, and would give ISP/operator type folks that ability to easily and quickly verify that: 157.242.0.0/16 is in point of fact permitted to originate by the org-id: LMU-1 with some level of authority... It's nothing really more than that. -Chris (who did spend some conference-room time with patrick/woody/doug/others talking about this very problem)
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