[address-policy-wg] RIPE Access Policy Change Request to allow allocations to critical infrastructure

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:32:40AM +0000, Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:
> Your PC at home is not offering a service that will exist for the
> foreseeable future. I can forsee a future for the Internet into
> the 22nd century when you and your home PC will be dead.

But with the same logic somewhere in the 22nd century we might not
even be using DNS anymore...

> Your home PC is probably not offering a service that is used freely 
> by many organizations. I think this part of the definition needs
> some work because some people would argue that Google's service 
> meets this criteria but I would argue that part of Google's service
> are the ads which are not offered freely, i.e. they cost money.

Google is free for most users...

> Your home PC is not offering any service that would continue to
> be offered even if you and your home and your company cease to 
> exist. But if DENIC ceases to exist, it is 100% certain that ICANN
> would find some other organization to continue offering .de nameservice.

What makes you so sure that DNS and/or ICANN will survive?

> Maybe this definition should use a name other than critical
> infrastructure. And my suggestion is nothing more than a
> first draft. My main point is that a new policy proposal should
> begin with a first draft of the policy itself so that people can discuss
> the draft policy instead of spending all the time discussing why
> it is impossible to write a policy at all.

I second that.  This is why I already wrote a draft of a few key elements
that would enable the RIPE NCC to make *decisions* based on that policy.

Gert Doering
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