[address-policy-wg] proposal about 2007-1

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:01:15PM +0200, Frederic wrote:
> the 2007-1 is the kind of resolution that can change a lot of thing.

Well, this is the intention.  We currently have system that is fairly
imbalanced regarding costs, freedom and responsibility between "PA" and
"PI" space.  This leads to various problems (that I'm not going to 
iterate, see the mailing list archives for all the discussions about it),
and thus we have decided to re-gain the balance.

> And you come from a situation that works and you want solve only a
> problem of a technical nature by a legal contract.

The current situation does *not* work - and things like "Address Space
Hijacking" (going to a provider, claiming "this is my network!") *can* be
fixed with legal contracts, plus resource certification.

Resource certification is a must to keep Internet routing (half-way)
secure in the coming decades - and without a reasonable legal basis, you
can forget about resource certification.

[..]
> the problem of internet ressource not used and not updated is only
> procedural.

And without a contractual basis with the resource holder, you have no
lever to fix the procedures for people that do not want to cooperate.

Nobody has a problem with resource holders that *do* cooperate - but we
need to fix the rest, and you can't get that with a voluntary contract
(because people that do not want to cooperate will not enter a contract
if they don't need to).

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
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