On Mar 3, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Leen Besselink wrote: > >>> Not comparing this to the former-DDR or Chinese situation (please refer >>> to my tin-foil remark above) a per-country specific prefix is not >>> necessarily a bad thing and may even have an upside. >>> >>> >> Care to explain what that could possibly be? (I simply don't see an >> upside to making it easy to censor the internet by national identity). >> >> > > Maintenance of "GeoIP"-databases becomes easier and less error-prone ? > Um, you say that like it's a good thing.
> Possible less out of date because of it. > True. > We've seen complaints about those many times on this list. > Yes, geolocation by IP is a fundamentally broken idea and process. That's, frankly, a good thing in my opinion. However, ignoring all of that for a moment, what makes you assume that CIRs would only delegate prefixes within their own nation under this scheme? I suspect several countries will likely be happy to sell or rent address space to the highest bidder. Owen
