Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
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 tha

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-02 Thread Sven Olaf Kamphuis
just to undermine the ITU's (only) point, why don't we simply have IANA delegate lets say 25% of the available ipv6 space to AFRINIC and APNIC now, like, -now- already... if they're so concerned about the "developing countries" surely, most of them would be in those regions :P and that should

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-02 Thread Leen Besselink
On 03/02/2010 11:46 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: 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 ? Possible less out of date becau

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-02 Thread Richard Barnes
>> 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 ? > > Possible less out of date because of it. > > We've seen complaints about th

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-02 Thread Leen Besselink
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 c

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 03/01/2010 09:04 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: > On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote: >> >>> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run >>> network... >>> >>> >> Not since 1992..what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and >> SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc. >

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:55:43 +0100 > From: Adam Waite > > > > Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run > > network... > > > > > Not since 1992..what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and > SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc. While ESnet is funded by th

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/1/2010 12:53 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:04:19 -0600 > Larry Sheldon wrote: > >> On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote: >>> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network... >>> Not since 1992..what you're lookin

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:55 PM, Adam Waite wrote: Not since 1992..what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc. Um, actually, I would say that in all of those cases, including ARPANET when it existed, you are

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:04:19 -0600 Larry Sheldon wrote: > On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote: > > > >> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run > >> network... > >> > >> > > Not since 1992..what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet > > and SIPRnet, and ESnet

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:55 PM, Adam Waite wrote: > >> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run >> network... >> >> > Not since 1992..what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and > SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc. > > ARPANET only lives on in reverse dns.

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Arjan van der Oest wrote: > CB3ROB scribbled: > >> let the riots commence 2.0 > > Oh dear oh dear... > >> keep in mind, most telcos and ISPs (the founders and members of the >> current IANA -> RIRS -> LIRs model resulting in a global internet which > is >> ha

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Ron Broersma
On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:25 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:15 +0100, Arjan van der Oest said: > >>> (considering the fact that governments themselves are not capable of >>> running anything but a gray-cheese-with-a-dial telephone network >> >> Hm, I was under the imp

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:15 +0100, Arjan van der Oest said: > > (considering the fact that governments themselves are not capable of > >running anything but a gray-cheese-with-a-dial telephone network > > Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run > network... I would not b

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote: > >> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run >> network... >> >> > Not since 1992..what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and > SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc. > > ARPANET only lives on in reverse dns. And that

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread David Conrad
On Mar 1, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Arjan van der Oest wrote: >> keep in mind, most telcos and ISPs (the founders and members of the >> current IANA -> RIRS -> LIRs model resulting in a global internet which is >> hard to censor) do not agree on this ITU proposal... > > I wonder who those ITU members ar

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

2010-03-01 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Skeeve wrote: > Are you really serious about that? The issues seem to me much bigger than > competition though. Yes sir, in theory/conceptually. > The ITU - being an RIR wouldn't satisfy what it seems to setting out trying to > do. Making them an RIR under the current system seems pointless as

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

2010-03-01 Thread Jorge Amodio
> But anyhow, don't get me wrong. I agree with all that has been said on > why and how ITU is trying to get a grip on packet switched communication > networks. My only point it that it might not be a bad idea to ponder on > the subject of allowing competition between RIR's in the same > geographica

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Adam Waite
Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network... Not since 1992..what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc. ARPANET only lives on in reverse dns.

RE: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Arjan van der Oest
CB3ROB scribbled: > let the riots commence 2.0 Oh dear oh dear... >keep in mind, most telcos and ISPs (the founders and members of the >current IANA -> RIRS -> LIRs model resulting in a global internet which is >hard to censor) do not agree on this ITU proposal... I wonder who those ITU m

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

2010-03-01 Thread Arjan van der Oest
Andy scribbled: Competition is not a bad thing. >>> Competition would be if I could approach the NCC or Pepsi Cola for my >>> integers for use on the internet. It is not competition if the >>> government makes me ask them for some integers. >> Assuming that ITU would become a nationwide alte

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

2010-03-01 Thread Jon Morby | fido
On 1 Mar 2010, at 14:04, Arjan van der Oest wrote: > Andy wrote: > >>> Competition is not a bad thing. > >> Competition would be if I could approach the NCC or Pepsi Cola for my >> integers for use on the internet. It is not competition if the >> government makes me ask them for some integers.

Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group

2010-03-01 Thread Andy Davidson
On 01/03/2010 14:04, Arjan van der Oest wrote: > Andy wrote: >>> Competition is not a bad thing. >> Competition would be if I could approach the NCC or Pepsi Cola for my >> integers for use on the internet. It is not competition if the >> government makes me ask them for some integers. > Assuming

Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group

2010-03-01 Thread Andy Davidson
On 26/02/2010 22:59, Bill Stewart wrote to nanog: > Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see the problem. The ITU is magic. I am no expert, but I am aware that sometimes the ITU decision making processes leads to member states having to adopt those decisions as telecoms law. I would not want to replace