Re: more on IPv6 address space exhaustion

[Fred Baker]

At 02:53 PM 8/11/00 -0700, Greg Skinner wrote:
>I have heard on some local (SF bay area) technology news reports that
>the Commission on Online Child Protection is looking at dividing the
>IPv6 address space into regions that can be classified according to
>their "safety" for child access.

I wouldn't worry excessively about that. This is roughly comparable to the 
argument that there should be a DNS TLD ".kids" in which folks who have a 
non-porn web site can get a domain name. Best.com is now part of Verio, 
which is in turn becoming part of NTT. All of these are non-porn companies. 
Is that their most important aspect, one they are going to base their 
domain name one? nay, nay...

Addresses will be assigned by address registries to service providers, and 
in turn to subscribers to service providers. The commission presumably has 
some valid comment on what content should be accessible by children, but it 
has no idea whether or how that relates to the business structure of the 
Internet, and therefore to IPv6 addressing.