[members-discuss] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group

Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 14:01:07 schrieb Michiel Ettema:
> -reserving a large IPv6 block.
> Considering the size of the IPv6 adress space there will be no shortage in
> the forseeable future. If IPv6 adresses eventually do run out it will
> impact the entire internet and a new adressing scheme will have to be
> rolled out by all. Keeping developing nation on IPv6 at that time will not
> be beneficial to them. Just as staying with IPv4 now won't benefit anyone.
> So a reservation has no benefit.
I dind't see a significant problem in a forseeable next running out of address 
space. 

But problems will occur if there are very different possible policies 
available to get address space. I.e. countries may construct laws which will 
only allow / force one of them (i.e. their own) and it is to assume that there 
will be no significant international pressure on such governments because they 
let "participate" their peoples to the IP - but under their "control"... Such 
ideas was not new and in pratice for many telco networks by "tradition".

> -'equitable access' to IPv6 resource by countries
> Nothing is preventing countries to register one of their governmental or
> regulatory bodies as LIR and have access to IPv6 resources. The current
> allocation policies already take care of the equitable access part.
May be,
but nothing prevents ISPs to get their own IPs from the current system 
directly. If a government will / is forcing this it will get international 
pressure in some form (even if some first countries are trying so).

> -ITU to become another Internet Registry
> The ITU political top down policy development process is not compatible
> with the current internet policy framework. Also all regions are already
> covered by RIR's and there is no argument that those are not adeqate for
> their task. 
I can't see any proven argument to change the current structures and for the 
following further management overhead...

If the ITU is right they should be able to explain the improvements their own 
"new" system will bring us.

The idea to let give ITU IP address space comes from peoples (politicans, 
lobbyists) which are thinking of IP adresses as telephone numbers.


bets regards,,



Niels.
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