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

Hi

Surprise !! Internet is a surprise in a world where everything is 
merchandised
The last 30 years last years were particularly marked by this movement 
(thanks to the notable influence of  the /World Trade Organization)/

Yes, Internet is an unbearable surprise. How a "common good" could 
develop itself while everything around was "regulated" toward private 
interests ?
Behind ITU everybody can see the stake : the control of the tremendous 
voice market, voice over IP indeed (IPV6, E164, ENUM and so on...)

To maintain its status of  vital "common good", Internet needs as much 
neutrality as possible

I agree with the previous analysis

Claude Combes
Directeur Technique & Prospective
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Sven Olaf Kamphuis a écrit :
> Indeed,
>
> The telephone network is a country-centric setup where countries set 
> up their own network and  therefore claim control, even nowadays 
> companies like vodafone still don't have one global single-tarif 
> telephone network with a single "country" code, but still have 
> individual countrycodes
> and tarifs within their infrastructure.
>
> Question remains if we, the owners of the internet infrastructure, 
> -want- to outsource power over our infrastructure to such a club, 
> which no doubt has got the intention of regulating it -per country- or 
> wether we would rather have the network-as-a-whole governed by OUR 
> representatives directly in the UN (if any change in how the internet 
> is "managed" needs to take place anyway).
>
> After all, -we- have the biggest stick. we own the wires and the 
> routers and the switches, most of the content and servers and most of 
> the buildings this infrastructure is in.
>
> Countries get an infrastructure to run their economy on, but thusfar, 
> there have been no real attempts by those countries to take control.
>
> now this is one mayor step towards handing over our power over the 
> infrastructure to individual country governments instead of managing 
> it ourselves like we always have done, and incase the country where 
> your mailbox happens t be doesn't do what you like you can still fire 
> everyone there and move your mailbox (and tax money) somewhere else ;).
>
> Once this ITU thing is in place, they could obtain total control over 
> the distribution of address space... (at least on ipv6 ;)
>
> On the other hand, it does make it easier to terminate services to 
> individual countries that don't act in the interest of the isps :P
>
> We indeed, prefer to stay with the current setup :P
>
> I'd rahter shut the thing down than hand over control to corrupt 
> governments that frequently don't even act in the interest of their 
> own voters (if they even have democracy ;)
>
> This "secondary" addressing thing won't be very "secondary" for long i 
> bet you, this is clearly an attempt to take control over OUR network.
>
> If they want regulation, fine, we'll have a nice meeting and send some 
> delegates to the UN, so those old-economy countries can discuss what 
> they want and we'll tell them if we're going to implement that or not.
>
> The internet is a global network and it should STAY that way.
>


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