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

Michael and all,

  There is no such thing you call "tyranny of the majority", which has
been a mantra of yours and some ICANN staff and BoD.  Majority
of stakeholders has always ruled or determined what policy and/or
policies they want/desire.

Michael.Dillon at radianz.com wrote:

> >> Suggestion... RIPE will allocate /24 blocks from the IPv4 address
> >>               range that was once called "Class C" address space
> >>               for use by services that are part of the Internet's
> >>               critical infrastructure. These blocks are for services
> >>               that will exist for the forseeable future, are used
> >>               freely by many organizations, and are likely to outlive
> >>               the lifetime of the organization currently operating the
> >>               service.
>
> >That's not helpful, as it centers around "critical infrastructure".  How
> >is the RIPE NCC supposed to evaluate how "criticial" something is?
>
> A workable policy would need to have definitions of "infrastructure" and
> "critical" that RIPE can use to evaluate any requests.
>
> >.de reachability is mostly meaningless for the majority of the
> >Internet users (as are all other ccTLDs).
>
> Reachability of .com and .net is also mostly meaningless for the
> majority of the Internet users. They only care if they can get to
> .cn sites because they can only read one language. The Internet has
> never recognized the tyranny of the majority so I don't think we
> should be worrying about this today.
>
> --Michael Dillon

Regards,

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