On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 7:14 PM Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> wrote: > Where I am and where you are, there is really only one single > entity that has complete responsiblity for both, and it's called the State > of California government. It isn't always pretty, and there are abudant
How about.... The internet is private property, with agreed upon co-ordination at the boundaries of property, and the roads inside California are not? What about at the border of California, where a street or highway crosses into another state; does California draw the lines and issue tickets into the neighboring state; What if the center line doesn't match up on the part of the road on opposite sides of the border? The roads in California are public infrastructure funded totally by government. So the government does everything related to their property: makes sense. The government does not draw lines on nor patrol and determine traffic rules for private driveways, private streets, private toll roads, private highways, etc. Each property owner has choices to make. Most networks: all the Tier1 providers, essentially, and all their routers and communication links, however, are private property. The owner of EACH network handles all functions for their property -- both drawing the lines and enforcing all lines; "Your network, your rules; My network, my rules.". There is no role, for example, for a government or anyone else to come tell ATT, Verizon, Level3, etc, what they are and are not allowed to put or have in their routing tables, and furthermore, which internet standards they have to support, (outside the scope of contracts they may have for services provided by their network). The *Operators* who connect to each other agree with each other to co-ordinate the numbering of their IP networks --- they only do this because THEY want End to End connectivity between certain networks they operate, and the IP standard requires unique numbers, so most IP networks need to be designed with an idea that they are uniquely co-ordinated so they COULD connect togethe. ARIN and other RIRs have the specific purpose of maintaining a *REGISTRY* of unique IP numbers and contacts to Assist operators in designing networks for which they can co-ordinate internet connectivity ---- That is it. Global connectivity is not necessarily required to have a need for unique assignments. ARIN NRPM 4.3.5 recognizes that. Some operators may have networks with intended partial connectivity (E.G. May be a globally unique IP range that connects to some other global networks and some other set of networks which are part of a 'private IP island' that use a different system for assigning IP numbers even if those IP numbers are assigned by RIRs to something else in the global network). Once the number is assigned, its just like a manufacturer receiving a range of MAC addresses to burn on their PROM, or NANPA assigning blocks of phone numbers to a carrier. The registry of OUI numbers doesn't have a legitimate say in the hardware specifications of ethernet cards being manufactured. NANPA doesn't have the ability to take back phone numbers, b/c too many of a phone company's customers are placing annoying telemarketing calls to other networks. ARIN doesn't have a legitimate say to decide that _ALL_ a network operator's networks must use only number assignments from ARIN, etc. A provider that runs IP networks can also run non-IP networks, Etc. What is "BGP Hijacking" Really? Its when Network Operators who have agreed to Interconnect and Co-Ordinate the numbering of their networks have failed to properly ensure that all the networks they are interconnecting are properly co-ordinated up to the standards required by the private contracts between the network providers. If their agreements say something different, then there may be some "private co-ordination", Or "Networks for which the interconnecting providers agree to ignore the RIR system, and utilize a unique private routing policy" ARIN Not only has no ability to enforce these agreements; not being a court of law; the Interconnection agreements are private, and not really the business of a number registry. [...] -- -JH _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
